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.

— Bill James

Bill James Quotes

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.

— Bill James

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.

— Bill James

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.

— Bill James

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.

— Bill James

I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!

— Bill James

Fun

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

— Bill James

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

— Bill James

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

— Bill James

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

— Bill James

Do people really believe there’s something different about the eyes of murderers?

— Bill James

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.

— Bill James

I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.

— Bill James

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.

— Bill James

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

— Bill James

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

— Bill James

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

— Bill James

If you can’t learn to do something well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.

— Bill James

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.

— Bill James

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

— 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.

— Bill James

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