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It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.

~Bill James

Topics: Believing Certain Certainly Easy Free Grow Grow Up Lifestyles Our People Risk Society Up

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There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.

~Bill James

Topics: Believe Confessions False Many More Than True I Believe

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If you go to a party populated by the NPR crowd and you start talking about JonBenet Ramsey, people will look at you as if you had forgotten your pants.

~Bill James

Topics: About Crowd Forgotten Go Had Look Pants Party People Start Talking Will You Your Npr

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Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

~Bill James

Topics: Airplane Automobiles Computers Like Only People Tell Them

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None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the football coaches do, or that our analysis should take precedence over the informed opinions of experts. I'm not saying that at all.

~Bill James

Topics: Analysis Analyst Claiming Coaches Experts Football Game Informed None Opinions Our Over Precedence Saying Should Statistical Take Understand Us Well

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

~Bill James

Topics: Interview Job Might Moment Off Shoes Still Take Talking Well You Your

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I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.

~Bill James

Topics: About Feel Like Little Little Things Sports Things Understand

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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 with intuition and guesswork.

~Bill James

Topics: Around Basketball Calculate Coaches College Even Everybody Fact Game Intuition Level Lower Over Really

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Our society is very, very good at developing certain types of skills and certain types of genius. We are fantastically good at identifying and developing athletic skills - better than we are, really, at almost anything else. We are quite good at developing and rewarding inventiveness.

~Bill James

Topics: Almost Almost Anything Anything Anything Else Athletic Better Certain Developing Else Genius Good Identifying Our Quite Really Rewarding Skills Society Than Types Very

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We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

~Bill James

Topics: Books Geniuses Genuinely Lifetime Literary Many More Need Only Read

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 5th, 1949

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