Clint Dempsey Quotes

I don't judge my performance on how many assists I have or how many points I have.

Usually, if I do a good job in the plus/minus category, I know I've had a good game.

I'm not a numbers type of guy who says I need this many yards, this many touchdowns.

If you start thinking about stats it can get too complicated and you just have to go out there and play your game.

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

Game by game is how I judge myself. At the end of the season, yeah, I do look back and think about how many games I've been available for, how many goals I've scored, how I've contributed. But that's what the summer's for. For now, you just look to the next one.

We've got to use every piece of data and piece of information, and hopefully that will help us be accurate with our player evaluation. For us, that's our life blood.

We just kind of relied on written scouting reports through the eighties and even the early nineties. I've really been amazed by some of the data that's out there, especially with regards to tendencies of hitters, and certainly tendencies of pitchers as well. I would have loved to have gotten that data when I played.

I feel as much pressure as anyone does about their work, really. You just want to be productive; only difference is that the work is seen and judged by a few more people.

You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.

I feel that, irrespective of a hit or flop, there's always pressure on an actor. When you give a flop, there's a pressure to ensure that the next film works, and when you give a hit, you want to keep it going. So, the pressure of success and failure is always there, and that's what keeps me going.

We need a Moneyball revolution in the NFL. We need Spread teams and Run and Shoot teams and Option teams.

Americans are analytical in their sports, which are very stop-start, so the numbers tend to add up. That's why Moneyball works for baseball. It doesn't work so well for football because it's a fluid game.

I'll look at stats after a game to see the work I've done in different areas.

I had a lot of stats in college, and they didn't count for wins. So whatever it takes to win football games is the goal that I set.

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.

A lot of people don't really understand that a statistic is an indicator, but it doesn't really give the full picture of the body of work. There's been time when I've had one sack or no sacks and controlled a whole game, and I've seen other cats get three or four sacks and it had no effect on that game.

The questions don't happen when you hit 30 homers, right? If you hit 30 home runs, you hit 40 doubles, I don't think anybody questions your conditioning or your offseason program.

I was a fan myself, and I know what it's like. If someone comes out of the blocks and scores 31 goals in one season, then you think, 'OK, was that a one-off, or will he do it again?'

I think a player should be evaluated for what he does on the playing field.

I understand what sabermetrics get across, and what they're getting across is to keep it simple. Especially for me, as a pitcher, that's something that helps me - finding ways to keep it simple. Numbers can only tell so much.

It's not always statistics that determine the best player, especially the quarterback.

Analytics, math, science has gone into a lot of different areas of the NBA.

Sitting on the bench, scoring a goal, and then being back on the bench is quite difficult to deal with for an attacker.

I miss scoring lots of goals, but I have always thought that a striker should not be judged just by the amount of goals he scores. The work he does for the team is also important.