Quotes About Baseball Statistics

#1. Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything.

Toby Harrah

#2. 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

#3. Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.

Ernie Banks

#4. Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.

Laraine Day

#5. Baseball's rich in wonderful statistics, but it's hard to find one more beautiful than Stan Musial's hitting record. He didn't care where he was, he just hit.

George Will

#6. There is no cure for emphysema, but you can start treating it and have a better quality of life.

Loni Anderson

#7. Your thought is the parent that gives birth to all things.

Neale Donald Walsch

#8. The statistics were not merely inadequate; they lied. And the lies they told led the people who ran major league baseball teams to misjudge their players, and mismanage their games.

Michael Lewis

#9. For the first time in his life, Michael understood why real soldiers coming back from real wars often had a hard time getting over the things they'd seen and done. And had done to them. If Michael had a soul, it was starting to leak out of his hopes.

James Dashner

#10. If two baseball players from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime statistics identical to his father's, it will not be ironic. It will be a coincidence.

George Carlin

#11. No one loves the numbers more than I do, but numbers don't measure everything, especially when it comes to evaluating defense. And in the end, I am going to trust Buck Showalter's eyes more than a set of statistics devised by someone who never played the game.

Tim Kurkjian

#12. Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

Jim Bouton

#13. Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.

Harry Reasoner

#14. Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.

Chili Davis

#15. Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.

Terence McKenna

#16. I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well.

Eric Davis

#17. Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]

Michael Lewis

#18. I don't understand. All of a sudden, it's not just BA and Runs Scored, it's OBA. And what is with O-P-S?

Harold Reynolds

#19. The great Baseball Hall-of-Famer Tom Seaver put it perfectly: In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

Jeff Olson

#20. Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and shutouts, streaks and slumps.

Roger Angell

#21. Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations - they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted.

Criss Jami

#22. Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.

Joe Torre

#23. The header was cleared off the line by the crossbar.

Simon Brotherton

#24. I really don't care much about baseball, or looking at ball games, major or minor. All my interest in baseball is in its statistics.

Ernest Lanigan

#25. She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.

Judy Blume

#26. You could argue that [the decline of public schools] is one of the major disasters in our lifetimes. We took one of the greatest successes in the history of the earth and turned it into one of the greatest disasters in the history of the earth.

Charlie Munger

#27. I have to absorb the new season like sunlight, letting it turn my winter skin pink and then brown. I must stuff myself with lore and statistics until my fingers ooze balm.

W.P. Kinsella