Barry Zito : “I was jumping at the opportunity at first, and when I really figured out how hard it was going to be, I was, like, ‘Wow, I don’t know if I can do this,’ second-guessing myself, but my wife, incredibly supportive, said, ‘Honey, you have to do this. You’re going to learn so much about yourself,’ and I did”

wsvn Wednesday, May 20, 2020 4:19:00 AM EAT

Barry Zito explained : “When I was playing baseball, I never thought I would have a life after baseball, after retirement,” “My identity was so wrapped up in my performance on the mound. But now that I’ve freed myself of that, I realize how much fun retirement can be, how fun it is to pursue musical endeavors — even this crazy one here on this show”

fox35orlando Thursday, May 14, 2020 9:09:00 PM EAT

Barry Zito said : “A literal (glass) pitcher, a diamond, a cutter and a slider, a bass guitar, a bass clef, south on my paw for southpaw, bunting — because I was a great bunter. Let’s be honest,”

fox35orlando Thursday, May 14, 2020 9:09:00 PM EAT

Barry Zito said : “It’s funny because I’m from Southern California, but they keep talking about my twang,” “But maybe I’m just picking it up being in Nashville”

fox35orlando Thursday, May 14, 2020 9:09:00 PM EAT

Barry Zito explained : “When I was playing baseball, I never thought I would have a life after baseball, after retirement,” “My identity was so wrapped up in my performance on the mound. But now that I’ve freed myself of that, I realize how much fun retirement can be, how fun it is to pursue musical endeavors — even this crazy one here on this show”

fox5atlanta Thursday, May 14, 2020 7:51:00 PM EAT

Barry Zito said : “A literal (glass) pitcher, a diamond, a cutter and a slider, a bass guitar, a bass clef, south on my paw for southpaw, bunting — because I was a great bunter. Let’s be honest,”

fox5atlanta Thursday, May 14, 2020 7:51:00 PM EAT

Barry Zito said : “It’s funny because I’m from Southern California, but they keep talking about my twang,” “But maybe I’m just picking it up being in Nashville”

fox5atlanta Thursday, May 14, 2020 7:51:00 PM EAT

Barry Zito said ( about Bruce Bochy ) : "Such a professional. Boch is so composed. It's almost like it doesn't mean anything anymore when guys are yelling, but with Bochy he's always so composed so when he did get mad or raise his voice -- or, take a baseball bat through a flat-screen TV -- then you'd listen,"

arkansasonline Saturday, September 28, 2019 11:40:00 AM EAT

Barry Zito said ( about Bruce Bochy ) : “Such a professional. Boch is so composed. It’s almost like it doesn’t mean anything anymore when guys are yelling, but with Bochy he’s always so composed so when he did get mad or raise his voice — or, take a baseball bat through a flat-screen TV — then you’d listen,”

ChinaPost Friday, September 27, 2019 12:46:00 PM EAT

Barry Zito said ( about Cy Young ) : "I started trying to win Cy Youngs in the Hollywood clubs because I couldn’t win them on the field anymore,"

usaToday Thursday, September 19, 2019 10:20:00 PM EAT

Barry Zito said : “He became the most famous guy in baseball while my career was tanking, and I literally couldn't handle it,”

foxnews Wednesday, September 18, 2019 4:27:00 PM EAT

Barry Zito said : “You hear about energy conservation but when you look at the sheer numbers of what’s going on and how many millions of people live in California, if we’re just doing little things like changing a couple light bulbs to LEDs or changing the filters on your HVAC vents, which I’m just learning how to do now as a man of the house every couple months, it just cuts down,”

ChinaPost Tuesday, April 23, 2019 9:21:00 AM EAT

Barry Zito said : “You hear about energy conservation but when you look at the sheer numbers of what’s going on and how many millions of people live in California, if we’re just doing little things like changing a couple light bulbs to LEDs or changing the filters on your HVAC vents, which I’m just learning how to do now as a man of the house every couple months, it just cuts down,”

seattletimes Tuesday, April 23, 2019 8:37:00 AM EAT

Barry Zito says : "He didn’t know a whole lot about sports," "And so he would read these baseball books at night by himself, and the next day, we would go through a couple pages, and I would learn all these things. And, of course, I thought he knew the whole book, in and out, but really he was just a couple pages ahead of me"

wbur Saturday, August 26, 2017 12:17:00 AM EAT

Barry Zito says : "He actually didn’t want me going into music," "He knew how difficult it was to make it in the music world. And his approach was always, you know, 'You master three pitches, and baseball will send out these scouts to the ends of the earth to find you.' Whereas, you could be the greatest musician ever, but if you don’t have the right people behind you, pushing you, and the right machinery, you may never go"

wbur Saturday, August 26, 2017 12:17:00 AM EAT

Barry Zito says : "So I kind of really upped my game to be a part of her band,"

wbur Saturday, August 26, 2017 12:17:00 AM EAT

Barry Zito says : "You know, you kind of get boxed in, I think, as a professional athlete to a certain stereotype," "A lot of times, I think my whole career, I felt a little bit out of place in a locker room. And I would say things that were probably a little bit different or maybe making myself more vulnerable than most, and I got labeled as flaky or eccentric. If you don’t fall right into that stereotype now, you’re just kind of an outcast"

wbur Saturday, August 26, 2017 12:17:00 AM EAT

Barry Zito says : “We are all guilty of thinking, ‘Once I’ve get this next thing, I’ll finally be happy,’”

foxnews Wednesday, February 1, 2017 3:59:00 PM EAT

Barry Zito said : "He must have been a Dodger fan or something,"

sunherald Sunday, February 22, 2015 8:04:00 AM EAT

Barry Zito : “I was jumping at the opportunity at first, and when I really figured out how hard it was going to be, I was, like, ‘Wow, I don’t know if I can do this,’ second-guessing myself, but my wife, incredibly supportive, said, ‘Honey, you have to do this. You’re going to learn so much about yourself,’ and I did”

wsvn Wednesday, May 20, 2020 4:19:00 AM EAT

Barry Zito explained : “When I was playing baseball, I never thought I would have a life after baseball, after retirement,” “My identity was so wrapped up in my performance on the mound. But now that I’ve freed myself of that, I realize how much fun retirement can be, how fun it is to pursue musical endeavors — even this crazy one here on this show”

fox35orlando Thursday, May 14, 2020 9:09:00 PM EAT

Barry Zito said : “A literal (glass) pitcher, a diamond, a cutter and a slider, a bass guitar, a bass clef, south on my paw for southpaw, bunting — because I was a great bunter. Let’s be honest,”

fox35orlando Thursday, May 14, 2020 9:09:00 PM EAT

Barry Zito said : “It’s funny because I’m from Southern California, but they keep talking about my twang,” “But maybe I’m just picking it up being in Nashville”

fox35orlando Thursday, May 14, 2020 9:09:00 PM EAT

Barry Zito explained : “When I was playing baseball, I never thought I would have a life after baseball, after retirement,” “My identity was so wrapped up in my performance on the mound. But now that I’ve freed myself of that, I realize how much fun retirement can be, how fun it is to pursue musical endeavors — even this crazy one here on this show”

fox5atlanta Thursday, May 14, 2020 7:51:00 PM EAT

Barry Zito said : “A literal (glass) pitcher, a diamond, a cutter and a slider, a bass guitar, a bass clef, south on my paw for southpaw, bunting — because I was a great bunter. Let’s be honest,”

fox5atlanta Thursday, May 14, 2020 7:51:00 PM EAT

Barry Zito said : “It’s funny because I’m from Southern California, but they keep talking about my twang,” “But maybe I’m just picking it up being in Nashville”

fox5atlanta Thursday, May 14, 2020 7:51:00 PM EAT

Barry Zito said ( about Bruce Bochy ) : "Such a professional. Boch is so composed. It's almost like it doesn't mean anything anymore when guys are yelling, but with Bochy he's always so composed so when he did get mad or raise his voice -- or, take a baseball bat through a flat-screen TV -- then you'd listen,"

arkansasonline Saturday, September 28, 2019 11:40:00 AM EAT

Barry Zito said ( about Bruce Bochy ) : “Such a professional. Boch is so composed. It’s almost like it doesn’t mean anything anymore when guys are yelling, but with Bochy he’s always so composed so when he did get mad or raise his voice — or, take a baseball bat through a flat-screen TV — then you’d listen,”

ChinaPost Friday, September 27, 2019 12:46:00 PM EAT

Barry Zito said ( about Cy Young ) : "I started trying to win Cy Youngs in the Hollywood clubs because I couldn’t win them on the field anymore,"

usaToday Thursday, September 19, 2019 10:20:00 PM EAT

Barry Zito said : “He became the most famous guy in baseball while my career was tanking, and I literally couldn't handle it,”

foxnews Wednesday, September 18, 2019 4:27:00 PM EAT

Barry Zito said : “You hear about energy conservation but when you look at the sheer numbers of what’s going on and how many millions of people live in California, if we’re just doing little things like changing a couple light bulbs to LEDs or changing the filters on your HVAC vents, which I’m just learning how to do now as a man of the house every couple months, it just cuts down,”

ChinaPost Tuesday, April 23, 2019 9:21:00 AM EAT

Barry Zito said : “You hear about energy conservation but when you look at the sheer numbers of what’s going on and how many millions of people live in California, if we’re just doing little things like changing a couple light bulbs to LEDs or changing the filters on your HVAC vents, which I’m just learning how to do now as a man of the house every couple months, it just cuts down,”

seattletimes Tuesday, April 23, 2019 8:37:00 AM EAT

Barry Zito says : "He didn’t know a whole lot about sports," "And so he would read these baseball books at night by himself, and the next day, we would go through a couple pages, and I would learn all these things. And, of course, I thought he knew the whole book, in and out, but really he was just a couple pages ahead of me"

wbur Saturday, August 26, 2017 12:17:00 AM EAT

Barry Zito says : "He actually didn’t want me going into music," "He knew how difficult it was to make it in the music world. And his approach was always, you know, 'You master three pitches, and baseball will send out these scouts to the ends of the earth to find you.' Whereas, you could be the greatest musician ever, but if you don’t have the right people behind you, pushing you, and the right machinery, you may never go"

wbur Saturday, August 26, 2017 12:17:00 AM EAT

Barry Zito says : "So I kind of really upped my game to be a part of her band,"

wbur Saturday, August 26, 2017 12:17:00 AM EAT

Barry Zito says : "You know, you kind of get boxed in, I think, as a professional athlete to a certain stereotype," "A lot of times, I think my whole career, I felt a little bit out of place in a locker room. And I would say things that were probably a little bit different or maybe making myself more vulnerable than most, and I got labeled as flaky or eccentric. If you don’t fall right into that stereotype now, you’re just kind of an outcast"

wbur Saturday, August 26, 2017 12:17:00 AM EAT

Barry Zito says : “We are all guilty of thinking, ‘Once I’ve get this next thing, I’ll finally be happy,’”

foxnews Wednesday, February 1, 2017 3:59:00 PM EAT

Barry Zito said : "He must have been a Dodger fan or something,"

sunherald Sunday, February 22, 2015 8:04:00 AM EAT