Movie

Moneyball

by Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian, Billy Bean, Brad Pitt, Rachael Horovitz and 145 others

The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.

(16 total)

Characters

Aaron Sorkin (16)Steven Zaillian (13)Billy Beane (6)Brad Pitt (6)Jonah Hill (5)Peter Brand (5)Stan Chervin (5)

“When your enemy's making mistakes, don't interrupt him.”

— Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Billy Beane, Brad Pitt, imdb.com

Tagged: Best Sports Movies, Mistakes

“How can you not get romantic about baseball?”

— Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian, Stan Chervin, Billy Beane, Brad Pitt, imdb.com

Tagged: baseball, Romantic

“You get on base, we win. You don't, we lose. And I hate losing, Chavy. I hate it. I hate losing more than I even wanna win.”

— Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian, Stan Chervin, Billy Beane, Brad Pitt, imdb.com

Tagged: Winning, Losing

“We're all told at some point in time that we can no longer play the children's game, we just don't... don't know when that's gonna be. Some of us are told at eighteen, some of us are told at forty, but we're all told.”

— Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian, Stan Chervin, imdb.com

Tagged: Aging, baseball, Retirement

“Billy Beane: Would you rather get one shot in the head or five in the chest and bleed to death? Peter Brand: Are those my only two options?”

— Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian, Stan Chervin, Billy Beane, Brad Pitt, imdb.com

Tagged: bad choice, shot in the head

“For forty-one million, you built a playoff team. You lost Damon, Giambi, Isringhausen, Pena and you won more games without them than you did with them. You won the exact same number of games that the Yankees won, but the Yankees spent one point four million per win and you paid two hundred and sixty…”

— Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian, Stan Chervin, imdb.com

Tagged: Johnny Damon, jason Giambi, Yankees, Payroll, Boston Red Sox

“People are overlooked for a variety of biased reasons and perceived flaws. Age, appearance, personality. Bill James and mathematics cut straight through that.”

— Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Peter Brand, Jonah Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: Evolution, Business, Evolution of Business, Sports, Metaphors

“It's about getting things down to one number. Using stats the way we read them, we'll find value in players that no body else can see.”

— Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Peter Brand, Jonah Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: Evolution, Business, Evolution of Business, Sports, Metaphors

“Yale, economics, baseball. You're funny.”

— Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Billy Beane, Brad Pitt, amazon.com

Tagged: Evolution, Business, Evolution of Business, Sports, Metaphors

“Baseball thinking is midevil. They are asking all the wrong questions. And if I say anything I get ostrisized. I'm a lepper.”

— Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Peter Brand, Jonah Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: Evolution, Business, Evolution of Business, Sports, Metaphors

“Ok, think in terms of buying players. Your goal shouldn't be to buy players it should be to buy wins. And in order to buy wins you have to buy runs.”

— Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Peter Brand, Jonah Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: Evolution, Business, Evolution of Business, Sports, Metaphors

“There is an epidemic failure within the game to understand what's really happening. This leaves those who run Major League Baseball teams to misjudge their players and mismanage their teams.”

— Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Peter Brand, Jonah Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: Evolution, Business, Evolution of Business, Sports, Metaphors

“It's an unfair game. Now we've been gutted, organ donors for the rich. Bostons taking our kidneys. Yankee's taking our heart. You guys are taking the same old good body nonsense like we're selling jeans. Like we're looking for Fabio.”

— Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Billy Beane, Brad Pitt, amazon.com

Tagged: Evolution, Business, Evolution of Business, Sports, Metaphors

“Your goal shouldn't be to buy players. Your goal should be to buy wins. In order buy wins, you need to buys runs”

— Aaron Sorkin, imdb.com

Tagged: goal, Buy, Players, Wins, Run

“I made one decision in my life based on money. And I swore I would never do it again”

— Aaron Sorkin, imdb.com

Tagged: decision, Life, Money, make

“When your enemy's making mistakes, don't interrupt him.”

— Aaron Sorkin, imdb.com

Tagged: Enemy, mistake, interrupt