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Moneyball Quotes

“When your enemy's making mistakes, don't interrupt him.”
— Billy Beane, Moneyball
Tagged: Best Sports Movies, Mistakes
“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, Moneyball
Tagged: Aging, baseball, Retirement
“How can you not get romantic about baseball?”
— Billy Beane, Moneyball
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.”
— Billy Beane, Moneyball
Tagged: Winning, Losing
“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?”
— Billy Beane, Moneyball
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 thousand. I know you've taken it in the teeth out there, but the first guy through the wall. It always gets bloody, always. It's the threat of not just the way of doing business, but in their minds it's threatening the game. But really what it's threatening is their livelihoods, it's threatening their jobs, it's threatening the way that they do things. And every time that happens, whether it's the government or a way of doing business or whatever it is, the people are holding the reins, have their hands on the switch. They go bat shit crazy. I mean, anybody who's not building a team right and rebuilding it using your model, they're dinosaurs. They'll be sitting on their ass on the sofa in October, watching the Boston Red Sox win the World Series.”
— Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian, Stan Chervin, Moneyball
Tagged: Johnny Damon, jason Giambi, Yankees, Payroll, Boston Red Sox, world series
“People are overlooked for a variety of biased reasons and perceived flaws. Age, appearance, personality. Bill James and mathematics cut straight through that.”
— Peter Brand, Moneyball
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.”
— Peter Brand, Moneyball
Tagged: Evolution, Business, Evolution of Business, Sports, Metaphors
“Yale, economics, baseball. You're funny.”
— Billy Beane, Moneyball
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.”
— Peter Brand, Moneyball
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.”
— Peter Brand, Moneyball
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.”
— Peter Brand, Moneyball
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.”
— Billy Beane, Moneyball
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, Moneyball
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, Moneyball
Tagged: decision, Life, Money, make
“When your enemy's making mistakes, don't interrupt him.”
— Aaron Sorkin, Moneyball
Tagged: Enemy, mistake, interrupt
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