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I don't want a lot of guys like me who played the game. Quite frankly, I want blank canvases; I want people to come in with new ideas. I don't want the biases of their own experiences to be a part of their decision-making process.
~ Billy Beane
Biases
Blank
Come
Decision-Making
Decision-Making Process
Experiences
Frankly
Game
Guys
Ideas
Like
Lot
Me
New
New Ideas
Own
Part
People
Played
Process
Quite
Quite Frankly
Want
Who
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I hate this idea that I've somehow become detached. It's like I can't win. I'd been hearing all these years that I was too hands-on: that I was the guy writing out the lineup card. Now, I'm not present enough. How is it possible to be a detached micromanager?
~ Billy Beane
Become
Been
Card
Detached
Enough
Guy
Hands-On
Hate
Hearing
How
Idea
Like
Now
Out
Possible
Present
Somehow
Too
Win
Writing
Years
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I just talked to a young lady, a freshman at Santa Barbara. She's taking a course, and Moneyball's one of the required readings. This young lady could dream of one day becoming a general manager.
~ Billy Beane
Barbara
Becoming
Could
Course
Day
Dream
Freshman
General
General Manager
Just
Lady
Manager
One Day
Readings
Required
Santa
She
Taking
Talked
Young
Young Lady
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I love what I do. That's one of the reasons I've stayed. I love the community; I love driving to work.
~ Billy Beane
Community
Driving
I Love
Love
Reasons
Stayed
Work
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I may not be as visible as I used to be, and by that I mean being in the clubhouse or on the field. But I'm just as invested as I've always been.
~ Billy Beane
Always
Been
Being
Clubhouse
Field
I May Not
Invested
Just
May
Mean
Used
Visible
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I've always been intellectually restless, but it is the building part of it that most interests me. It is the constructing of the team that is my favorite part. Anyone who is familiar with the history of the A's franchise, even dating back to Philadelphia, knows that every five or 10 years, you have to tear it apart and rebuild it.
~ Billy Beane
Always
Anyone
Apart
Back
Been
Building
Constructing
Dating
Even
Every
Familiar
Favorite
Favorite Part
Five
Franchise
History
Intellectually
Interests
Knows
Me
Most
Part
Philadelphia
Rebuild
Restless
Team
Tear
The History Of
Who
Years
You
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In baseball, you can do something poorly and still get credit. A pitcher could throw a bad ball, the batter hit a screaming line drive, and an outfielder make a fantastic diving catch. Yet, when you look at historical databases, 80% of the time when a ball is struck with that trajectory and velocity, it is a hit.
~ Billy Beane
Bad
Ball
Baseball
Catch
Could
Credit
Databases
Diving
Drive
Fantastic
Get
Historical
Hit
Line
Look
Make
Pitcher
Poorly
Screaming
Something
Still
Struck
Throw
Time
Trajectory
Velocity
You
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Quite frankly, I can't get enough of soccer. I tell my jingoistic friends in the United States there's a reason why it is the world's No. 1 sport. The rest of the planet can't be wrong.
~ Billy Beane
Enough
Frankly
Friends
Get
Planet
Quite
Quite Frankly
Reason
Rest
Soccer
Sport
States
Tell
United
United States
Why
World
Wrong
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Smaller markets teams, when you hit bottom, you hit with a thud.
~ Billy Beane
Bottom
Hit
Markets
Smaller
Teams
You
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The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period.
~ Billy Beane
Any
Best
Bottom
Bottom Line
Brightest
Business
Line
Period
Should
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The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. There's some really, really bright people in this business. You can't do the same thing the same way and be successful for a long period of time.
~ Billy Beane
Any
Bright
Business
Create
Forever
Happen
Idea
Long
Long Period
People
Period
Really
Same
Same Thing
Some
Successful
Thing
Time
Way
Will
Work
You
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The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.
~ Billy Beane
Also
Baseball
Certain
Course
Data
Eliminate
Games
Individual
Lot
Math
Much
Odds
Off
Outcomes
Over
Pay
Performance
Play
Players
Predict
Predictability
Random
Season
Some
Strategies
Will
Works
You
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We try to create a situation where we're the casino. It's like how an actuary would set insurance rates. Predictability, predictability, predictability. What's the path to least risk? What's the greater chance of getting some return on this asset?
~ Billy Beane
Asset
Casino
Chance
Create
Getting
Greater
How
Insurance
Least
Like
Path
Predictability
Rates
Return
Risk
Set
Situation
Some
Try
Where
Would
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We've got to use every piece of data and piece of information, and hopefully that will help us be accurate with our player evaluation. For us, that's our life blood.
~ Billy Beane
Accurate
Blood
Data
Evaluation
Every
Got
Help
Hopefully
Information
Life
Our
Piece
Player
Us
Use
Will
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When I first came into baseball, people didn't want to hear that a team was a business. But it is. And the better the business is run, the healthier the team on the field is going to be.
~ Billy Beane
Baseball
Better
Business
Came
Field
First
Going
Healthier
Hear
People
Run
Team
Want
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Who wants to get really granular with sabermetrics when you're going to see a two-and-a-half-hour Brad Pitt movie? You don't go to the cinema for a maths lesson.
~ Billy Beane
Brad
Brad Pitt
Cinema
Get
Go
Going
Lesson
Maths
Movie
Pitt
Really
See
Wants
Who
You
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Why do people care about anything we do? We play in a crappy stadium, in a market that we share with another team, with one of the lowest payrolls in the game. Really, I'm not that interesting.
~ Billy Beane
About
Another
Anything
Care
Crappy
Game
Interesting
Lowest
Market
People
Play
Really
Share
Stadium
Team
Why
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