Bill James Quotes

The statistics might have a Eurosceptic cast, but they are not exactly a fun read. Few of us want to wade through ONS graphs or European Commission tables.

We must never let a blizzard of statistics blind us to the real lives and people behind them.

To understand God’s thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of his purpose.

I'm not too worried about stats and stuff like that.

Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they are still more useful in deluding the minds of others. Numbers are the masters of the weak, but the slaves of the strong.

The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.

Charts are great for predicting the past.

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

Statistics are one thing. But if you're not putting up the numbers as far as winning, they're not going to consider you for things like the MVP.

I consider myself a good communicator and a good salesman.

I've got a lot of stats. I did a lot of stuff.

If we just focus on stats, we're gonna eventually not have them.

I'm an analytics girl.

All the fascination with numbers conspires to make you forget the beauty of the game sometimes.

I always liked numbers.

I've said many times that I'm not one of those people who check statistics, follows history, and says, 'If I do this, what will happen.'

I've never been a stat guy.

When you have your best stuff, it's a lot easier to pitch.

Probability is the very guide of life.

The bad player is the one who tries to calculate and play with the odds, as if his game, his life, were one of a large number of games. To do so is at best to succumb to another necessity, the necessity of large numbers. The good player does not fool himself, and accepts that there is exactly one chance, which produces by chance the necessity and even the purpose that he experiences.

And if ten percent of men are gay and twenty percent of men are Chinese, what are the odds that a men chosen at random spends his free time and mealtime while on his knees.

Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat "what if?" questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working.

In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.

You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.