Bill James

Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn't have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress occupation, and those sort of stress-inducing activities... just have a huge impact on how the team functions, I think. ”

There comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes. ”

You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections. ”

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct. ”

Professionalism in law has brought us the O.J. Simpson case in lieu of justice. ”

When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers. ”

Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers? ”

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were. ”

Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses. ”

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you. ”