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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

Topics: 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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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

Topics: 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

Topics: 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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Smaller markets teams, when you hit bottom, you hit with a thud.

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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

Topics: Enough Frankly Friends Get Planet Quite Quite Frankly Reason Rest Soccer Sport States Tell United United States Why World Wrong

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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

Topics: Baseball Better Business Came Field First Going Healthier Hear People Run Team Want

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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

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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

Topics: 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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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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Athlete

Born: March 29th, 1962

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