Bill James

“The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it wit...”

“Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.”

“Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.”

“Bunting is usually a waste of time. The - generally, yeah, I mean, if you think about it, bunt is the only play in baseball that both sides applaud. The - if the home team bunts, you get a b...”

“We need new athletes all the time because we need new games every day - fudging just a little on the definition of the word 'need.' We like to have new games every day, and, if we are to hav...”

“It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.”

“The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.”

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

“In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.”

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