Doug Collins Quotes

I'm not a fan of analytics. When I was a kid, I couldn't tell you what percentage Allen Iverson shot, or Michael Jordan.

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

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

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

I look across the league at some of these really good teams and these great players, and you give a guy that shoots 18-footers an 18-footer, he makes it every time. Every. Single. Time. You give a guy an open 3 and he makes it every single time.

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.

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

In disciplines as disparate as baseball, financial services, trucking and retail, people are realizing the power of data to help make better decisions.

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

I don’t watch a lot of other basketball away from the gym. But I do look at LeBron’s box score. I want to see how many points, rebounds and assists he had, and how he shot from the field. If he had 30 points, nine rebounds and eight assists, I can tell you exactly how he did it, what type of shots he made and who he passed to.

I don't have to shoot from more than two feet. I'm top 50. I've got 23,000 from where I shoot.

A chart of numbers that would put an actuary to sleep can be made to dance if you put it on one side of a card and Bombo Rivera's picture on the other.

Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph.

Except in expert hands, stats can get in the way of story; an array of data that might better be presented in a table instead clogs up sentences.

The analysis of statistics is a big part of the modern game, and it's important as a modern manager to embrace areas that can help your team and players improve.

He shouldn't have resigned over that game. It was not a bad performance; in fact it was quite a good one for England. I would not have resigned under those circumstances.

It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.

The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape.

Even more important than statistics is then having the staff that can take the data and ensure it's presented in a way that improves individuals and teams.

They shot the ball well early. What comes out of the microwave hot doesn't always stay hot. I know, because I eat bagels in the morning.

Some people hate the very name of statistics, but I find them full of beauty and interest. Whenever they are not brutalized, but delicately handled by the higher methods, and are warily interpreted, their power of dealing with complicated phenomena is extraordinary. They are the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.

The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.

For every one of our failures, we had spreadsheets that looked awesome

You can take Saban's record when he was at Michigan State and when he was a coach in the Big Ten and put it against mine, and he can't compare.

I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I'm joking, but who would've guessed that computer engineers would've been the sexy job of the 1990s?