90 Quotes by Bill James

What happens in many of these cases is that, in the absence of evidence, the crime is pinned on a person of low social standing who is known to be in the vicinity of the crime. We have seen this repeatedly.

I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I’m with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.

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.

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

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

You can’t ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There’s a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena and serious social issues and we never get to that intersection because serious people don’t like to talk about that unattractive stuff.

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

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.