114 Quotes by Billy Beane

I love what I do. That's one of the reasons I've stayed. I love the community; I love driving to work.

We've got to use every piece of data and piece of information, and hopefully that will help us be accurate with our player evaluation. For us, that's our life blood.

If you would expect that in one year that it's a panacea, ... Well, that's unrealistic.

The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.

If there is any player who you couldn't be happier for signing a guaranteed multiyear contract, it's Mark Ellis, particularly because of what he went through.

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.

I don't think there's any question, ... that we need Jermaine to be his old self.

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

The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period.