90 Quotes by Bill James

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

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

When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you – period.

Crime stories show us the part of people’s lives they try to keep hidden.

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

Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown – defense, base running, clutch hitting – his performance still would not match Mantle’s.

The search for understanding, wherever it roams, is a search for better simplifications. Simplifications which explain more and distort less... All human understanding is based on simplifications of more complex realities.

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

He was called “Pancho” because people at that time didn’t have enough sense to be offended by stuff like that.