The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period.
BILLY BEANE We've got to use every piece of data and piece of information, and hopefully that will help us b...
BILLY BEANE I may not be as visible as I used to be, and by that I mean being in the clubhouse or on the field. ...
BILLY BEANE We try to create a situation where we're the casino. It's like how an actuary would set insu...
BILLY BEANE In baseball, you can do something poorly and still get credit. A pitcher could throw a bad ball, the...
BILLY BEANE I don't want a lot of guys like me who played the game. Quite frankly, I want blank canvases; I ...
BILLY BEANE At this point, both sides have agreed to pursue other options. We were just too far apart. I don't t...
BILLY BEANE It was Ken, ... He called. I think it was probably not an easy phone call for him to make.
BILLY BEANE It took a lot for him to pick up the phone, unsolicited. That was probably not an easy phone call fo...
BILLY BEANE Certainly, you're not going to able to go and pull a Mark Mulder out of your hat somewhere,
BILLY BEANE Who knows how the rest of baseball views you? ... I can go home and sleep and know that we used trem...
BILLY BEANE Almost like a car salesman, if a guy walks onto the lot and a salesman qualifies him on how he is dr...
BILLY BEANE The details really weren't that big of a deal from a contractual standpoint. Just a couple of minor ...
BILLY BEANE If you bring in a lefty to face Eric (a left-handed hitter), and then he has to face Frank Thomas ri...
BILLY BEANE It's like having calculus first period. You are not real happy when the alarm goes off, but by secon...
BILLY BEANE It's something we didn't know about, but he came forward with the information, so I commend him for ...
BILLY BEANE I just talked to a young lady, a freshman at Santa Barbara. She's taking a course, and Moneyball...
BILLY BEANE I've always been intellectually restless, but it is the building part of it that most interests ...
BILLY BEANE If there is any player who you couldn't be happier for signing a guaranteed multiyear contract, it's...
BILLY BEANE The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. T...
BILLY BEANE I hate this idea that I've somehow become detached. It's like I can't win. I'd been ...
BILLY BEANE (Macha) did a fine job. We obviously had significant player turnover and injuries. The end result wa...
BILLY BEANE You could probably get carried away with superlatives when it comes to Frank Thomas. He's arguably o...
BILLY BEANE [A's G.M. Billy Beane is suitably impressed by Mariners phenom Felix Hernandez.] There aren't too ma...
BILLY BEANE It's best to part ways at this point, ... We were never going to be able to bridge the gap.
BILLY BEANE We were never going to bridge the gap.
BILLY BEANE I'm collecting them all. But obviously, Danny's smarter than I am because he decided to go to Stanfo...
BILLY BEANE I had a nice little conversation with him. He seems happy to be here, quick to smile.
BILLY BEANE Deals are always ongoing things. So now, in that respect, Brad is part of the deal. But I'm not the ...
BILLY BEANE Serendipity. Danny just does everything well. Over time, he's going to impress you.
BILLY BEANE I know we didn't get to see the real Dan Meyer. He says he feels great now, and he could be a real s...
BILLY BEANE Both (Williams and Thomas) are highly competitive, highly successful people. It's temporary noise.
BILLY BEANE That'll be a real shot in the arm for us.
BILLY BEANE Paul has seen the ups and down of developing young players and trusting the three, four years they'v...
BILLY BEANE But we've always been obsessed in Oakland with not being the cute small-market story that came and w...
BILLY BEANE The perfect guy either might not be out there or beyond our (financial) means.
BILLY BEANE The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you p...
BILLY BEANE Quite frankly, I can't get enough of soccer. I tell my jingoistic friends in the United States t...
BILLY BEANE Who wants to get really granular with sabermetrics when you're going to see a two-and-a-half-hou...
BILLY BEANE Why do people care about anything we do? We play in a crappy stadium, in a market that we share with...
BILLY BEANE Smaller markets teams, when you hit bottom, you hit with a thud.
BILLY BEANE Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job...
BILLY BEANE When I first came into baseball, people didn't want to hear that a team was a business. But it i...
BILLY BEANE We can't do the same things the Yankees do. Given the economics, we'll lose.
BILLY BEANE I love what I do. That's one of the reasons I've stayed. I love the community; I love drivin...
BILLY BEANE I try to create some stupid entertainment for really smart people that they don't feel too stupi...
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE If you're raised Methodist, Catholicism is a bit of a workout. It's sort of like you're ...
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE When people say 'Lysistrata' has always been seen as an anti-war play, what's interestin...
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE In the '20s and '30s, there were these musicals either set on college campuses or based on c...
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE I've seen nearly every Encores! show. I love the second acts so much because you just see desper...
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE Dietz and Schwartz have sort of fallen by the wayside a little bit, and they are up there with Rodge...
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE If I'm seeing you, you're going to influence me. I'm sorry - I'm just that way. I...
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE I have very important phone messages that will be playing Broadway. An evening of my tweets I think ...
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE I inherited the old family turkey farm, and I'm turning it into a fun place to go for my kids.
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE I think it's a very ephemeral thing, what makes a show a success.
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE I love throwing myself into a place or a period or a point of view. In 'Fledermaus,' I loved...
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE I went into Xanadu going, 'I really dislike this movie - let me try to make it something wonderf...
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE My favorite moments are the moments everyone cries over. I see people in the audience crying, and I ...
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.
BILLY CONNOLLY Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you ...
BILLY GRAHAM God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him i...
BILLY SUNDAY An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you...
BILLY WILDER Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
BILLY JOEL I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.
BILLY CORGAN I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is...
BILLY GRAHAM Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.
BILLY CONNOLLY There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
BILLY CONNOLLY Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
BILLY GRAHAM The death of Sid Caesar on Wednesday caused a chain reaction in my soon-to-be-66-year-old mind. I wa...
BILLY CRYSTAL Doing my Broadway show '700 Sundays' reminded me how much I love working in front of an audi...
BILLY CRYSTAL When I had a record deal in the '90s, that was my dream - to make an album like Barbra Streisand...
BILLY PORTER Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren't many records stores around to just go and bro...
BILLY GIBBONS Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical ...
BILLY COLLINS I'm not a bro.
BILLY EICHNER France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER The best director is the one you don't see.
BILLY WILDER I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have righ...
BILLY WILDER If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
BILLY WILDER One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
BILLY WILDER They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it...
BILLY WILDER I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
BILLY WILDER Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
BILLY WILDER He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
BILLY WILDER If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too serious...
BILLY WILDER Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.
BILLY GRAHAM Every human being is under construction from conception to death.
BILLY GRAHAM My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
BILLY GRAHAM What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about th...
BILLY GRAHAM Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.
BILLY GRAHAM In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. B...
BILLY JOEL I'm on all the apps: Tinder, Grindr, Bumble, Scruff. I have no shame about that.
BILLY EICHNER Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.
BILLY GRAHAM I love the community of theater. There is something about the camaraderie: People who show up eight ...
BILLY PORTER Yeah, I've done Jim Breuer's radio show a couple times, and I heard from Larry the Cable Guy...
BILLY GARDELL I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.
BILLY CONNOLLY Broken! Busted! Everybody has something to repair. Before buying new, let Mighty Putty fix it for yo...
BILLY MAYS Everybody thinks the Bushes are from Texas. I've been there twice.
BILLY BUSH It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instru...
BILLY SHEEHAN I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
BILLY WILDER It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.
BILLY WILDER My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Au...
BILLY WILDER Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
BILLY WILDER Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means...
BILLY WILDER What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
BILLY WILDER Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
BILLY WILDER We're seeing this disintegration of the family movie into these blockbuster things that kids sho...
BILLY CRYSTAL I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
BILLY SUNDAY The reason we are together is because she puts lead in my shoes and doesn't let me fly off the earth...
BILLY CRYSTAL Did you ever reach a point in your life, where you say to yourself, 'This is the best I'm ever going...
BILLY CRYSTAL Gentlemen, start your egos.
BILLY CRYSTAL Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the...
BILLY CRYSTAL When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your li...
BILLY CRYSTAL I've seen worse. . . . It just so happens that your friend here is mostly dead. There's a big differ...
BILLY CRYSTAL This guy was so large, he had his own climate.
BILLY CRYSTAL Change is such hard work
BILLY CRYSTAL The blues is life itself.
BILLY GIBBONS The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a ...
BILLY GIBBONS I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues.
BILLY COLLINS I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
BILLY JOEL If I need a cause for celebrationOr a comfort I can use to ease my mindI rely on my imaginationAnd I...
BILLY JOEL [Does Joel feel a particular resonance with any of this year's other nominees? Sure, he says -- Paul...
BILLY JOEL Shades of grey wherever I goThe more I find out the less that I knowBlack and white is how it should...
BILLY JOEL I'm still dealing with the 21-year-old me. That idealist, that purist, that young, noble, and somewh...
BILLY JOEL I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - The sinners are much more fun
BILLY JOEL Don't go trying some new fashionDon't change the color of your hair. . . .I could not love you any b...
BILLY JOEL I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
BILLY JOEL The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing ch...
BILLY JOEL The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark lik...
BILLY HERMAN If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other ...
BILLY GRAHAM Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
BILLY WILDER Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
BILLY WILDER Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never me...
BILLY WILDER I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as ...
BILLY WILDER If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
BILLY WILDER Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster ...
BILLY ECKSTINE I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and...
BILLY CORGAN I have a stack of those plastic card hotel room keys that I picked up on this latest book tour. It&#...
BILLY COLLINS An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles ...
BILLY WILDER Whatever it is that's bothering me - interacting with annoying guy at a restaurant, contemplatin...
BILLY CRYSTAL The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of prai...
BILLY GRAHAM God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.
BILLY WILDER I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
BILLY WILDER Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
BILLY SUNDAY I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.
BILLY WEST The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be ...
BILLY ZANE You can't be greater than Elvis, change things as much as the Beatles, or be as original as Led Zepp...
BILLY CORGAN A lot of great music got easily dismissed because the baby boomers threw their weight around and we ...
BILLY CORGAN For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done alright.
BILLY CORGAN The band is basically modeled upon what we call like a Beatles ideal, which is that the band is abou...
BILLY CORGAN For a year now I have walked around with a secret, a secret I chose to keep. But now I want you to b...
BILLY CORGAN Well, what we usually do is in every city we got to, we hire a fifteen-year-old boy and we turn it u...
BILLY CORGAN Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.
BILLY CORGAN I'm not going to die glamorously. I'll probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over.
BILLY CORGAN By starlight, I'll kiss you, and promise to be your one and only. I'll make you feel happy and lea...
BILLY CORGAN The best things in life are free- and $19.95.
BILLY MAYS He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
BILLY WILDER Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobi...
BILLY SUNDAY When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
BILLY GRAHAM I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are ...
BILLY JOEL Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.
BILLY GIBBONS The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serv...
BILLY CORGAN I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
BILLY JOEL France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER I love it when someone insults me. That means I don't have to be nice anymore.
BILLY IDOL Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
BILLY JOEL Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
BILLY GRAHAM America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we...
BILLY GRAHAM The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because ...
BILLY GRAHAM No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross...
BILLY GRAHAM Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby ...
BILLY GRAHAM God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
BILLY GRAHAM One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselv...
BILLY COLLINS Most people miss the great part mental outlook plays in this game.
BILLY MARTIN I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagi...
BILLY CONNELLY America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's gr...
BILLY GRAHAM Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
BILLY GRAHAM The good days weren't really so good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
BILLY JOEL I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.
BILLY GRAHAM God has a big eraser.
BILLY ZEOLI I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.
BILLY CRYSTAL I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.
BILLY JOEL Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repairing.
BILLY ROSE A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.
BILLY JOEL Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
BILLY GRAHAM Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they...
BILLY GRAHAM Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
BILLY WILDER You look marvelous.
BILLY CRYSTAL An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles ...
BILLY WILDER I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
BILLY WILDER They say there's a heaven for those who will wait. Some say it's better, but I say it ain't. I'd rat...
BILLY JOEL There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than...
BILLY JOEL Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
BILLY CRYSTAL I steal a kiss from her sleeping shadow moves. 'Cause I'll always miss her wherever she goes. And I...
BILLY CORGAN I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.
BILLY JOEL What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the ...
BILLY CORGAN