Statist Quotes

You've got to look at general crime statistics, road safety statistics and all that sort of thing in deciding whether a place is safe or unsafe to visit. And certainly London does come out better in all those mundane but much more relevant statistics. - Bob Bone

You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation. - Marc Racicot

You're talking about a guy that got moved from the 9 hole very shortly to the 6 hole and then, in his first full season in the big leagues, being put in the 3 slot in the lineup. And he didn't blink. . . How he handled that mentally and emotionally, as much as what he did statistically, really drove the confidence that we had in making an offer like this. - Mark Shapiro

You write values questions people can agree or disagree to, and then you use some fancy statistical routines to be able to characterize who's in what group. - Brooke Warrick

You never know when they're going to come. We're a team that's not built around the home run, as you can see statistically. We need to score in other ways. When it comes, it gives us a great boost. - Mike Scioscia

You need to go to city council and see if there are any new businesses on the way, get crime statistics from the police department and look into the school system... In other words, find out what the future holds for this area. - Robert Irwin

You name it he did it. He was all over the court. You just look at every statistical category and he had an entry. It was a remarkable performance by a really talented player. - Dave Odom

You might not see it in the statistics, but we really played well on defense. Most of [Rensselaer's] yards came in the fourth quarter when we played our starters. - Doug Luke