Quotes About Sports Statistics

#1. Statistics are like bikinis-they show a lot but not everything.

Lou Piniella

#2. While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.

Vince Lombardi

#3. Spiritual awakening refers to a dramatic expansion in consciousness rather than a minor realization about oneself.

Jordan Jacobs

#4. Teaching English and teaching Writing are two separate things.

Vanna Bonta

#5. We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.

Evan Davis

#6. I write poems to figure things out

Sarah Kay

#7. He grabbed my hand, forcing me to look at him. "You are not a brat." "The first time we really spoke, I corrected your manners." He shrugged. "They needed correcting." I smiled sadly. "I'm not sure why, but that makes me want to cry.

Kiera Cass

#8. In the last four years under the Patriot Act, we have seen a great increase in the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate and track terrorists.

Mike Pence

#9. But cemeteries are like mousetraps for memories, catching grief by the tail before it knows what's what.

Jennifer E. Smith

#10. The more I go into I, the more I fall out of I.

Ken Wilber

#11. The players are too serious. They don't have any fun any more. They come to camp with a financial adviser and they read the stock market page before the sports pages. They concern themselves with statistics rather than simply playing the game and enjoying it for what it is.

Rocky Bridges

#12. Always make positive use of every second and minute

Sunday Adelaja

#13. If I explained everything maybe he would understand. I needed to be understood.

Michelle Hodkin

#14. They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

Mike Schmidt

#15. We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is what we mean by a moral society - not a society in which the State is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the State.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Michael Lewis

#17. Some people are only "believers" because they want God to give them things; a thrill, money, spiritual gifts etc. but they never think twice about what THEY can give to God. They are Christian parasites, always wanting more, rather than Christian servants, who are always willing to give.

Lisa Bedrick

#18. 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

#19. This fellow will not go wrong again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#20. Where you have nothing, there you should want nothing.

Samuel Beckett

#21. When I was little, I wanted to be a doctor. I was really interested in gore. My grandfather was an orthopedic surgeon and he had a lot of books in his library that I would just pore over. A lot of them had really horrible pictures of deformities.

Jennifer Egan

#22. In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.

Norm MacDonald

#23. I have the power to handle whatever comes up.

Les Brown