Brendan Rodgers Quotes

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

There's been the emergence of a philosophy that big data is all you need. We would suggest that, actually, numbers don't speak for themselves.

Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: "A judicious man," says he, "looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him."

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 spend our time bandying statistics about.

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

You'll never hear me talk about stats.

The numbers are hard to control.

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

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've never been a stat guy.

Serious numbers will speak to us always.

I bathe in statistics.

... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation.

I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.

If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.

Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch of mathematics. Now I agree that the physicist, the chemist, the engineer, and the statistician can never know too much mathematics, but their objectives should be better physics, better chemistry, better engineering, and in the case of statistics, better scientific investigation. Whether in any given study this implies more or less mathematics is incidental.

In modern times sound policy-making must often come to grips with numbers.

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.

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.

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 professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent.