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You're just too poor to get rich.
I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!
When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers.
(Mantle) was clearly a greater player in his peak years.
I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.
You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.
Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.
Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.
Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.
Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.
Visualizing the movement finally got me over the top after months of practice.
Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.
Professionalism in law has brought us the O.J. Simpson case in lieu of justice.
Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.
Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers?
Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.
There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.
The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.
I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.
Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.
We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.
Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.
When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.
There comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes.
Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.
In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.
There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.
The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.
It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.
Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.
It is a very long and very difficult road from a fact to a conclusion. But it is a million times longer from a theory to a fact.
You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?
I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.
A chart of numbers that would put an actuary to sleep can be made to dance if you put it on one side of a card and Bombo Rivera's picture on the other.
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.
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.
Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.
Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.
It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.
Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.
There are many things that you can't measure. But the great fun of what I do for a living is figuring out ways to measure things that people previously considered intangible.
I think among the population at large, people are openly fascinated with crime and don't feel any shame over it. It's only the opinion-makers and the 'opinion elites' who turn up their noses.
I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.
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.
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.
Baseball does become slow sometimes. It's totally unnecessary. The - you can play baseball fast. You can play it slow, and for some reason, we have chosen to play it slow, you know, which is unfortunate, but nothing you can do about.
Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment. It's an interesting phenomena and I tried to put it in perspective and tried to think through a few of the real questions that this sometimes unseemly business raises.
How easy it is for a fantasy to grab hold of your foot like a rope, and dangle your life upside down while brigands go through your pockets. Deal with the life you've got. Solve the problems you have, rather than fantasizing about a life without them.
I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.
Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses. Anyone can become a drug addict if you let yourself do it and, once you become a drug addict, you'll do whatever you have to to get the drugs. Absolutely, anybody can do it.