Stats Quotes

They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet. (Bill Hicks)

There's no financial aspect to stats.

Matt Mullenweg

Even mocking people helped their face stats. In the reputation economy, the only real way to hurt anyone was to ignore them completely. And it was pretty hard to ignore someone who made your blood boil.

Scott Westerfeld

I average 25 with three guys on me and they are just looking at stats I guess.

Shaquille O'Neal

I think as you get older, you realize there's always going to be critics. Critics are going to win every time because they can change their critique based on the stats and their own personal feelings.

Aaron Rodgers

There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty.

Cedric Richmond

I don't get it: they re-package the same shitty football games every year, update a few stats, call it a new game and millions of suckers keep buying them. What's the point? Why not just go outside and play real football instead? Or even better yet, get bent. Nobody likes football.

Maddox

I was never concerned with statistics - scoring goals, my records. The only thing I was concerned about was winning. The association changed my life. It changed my career and it changed my stats. I went to Chicago for three years but I was never a Blackhawk. I was treated well by the fans and by management, but I only had mediocre years. I still had a Red Wing on my forehead, on my backside and over my heart. I was existing, nothing more. Then, I retired for four years.

Ted Lindsay

The other, more nebulous, but very strong influence of RPGs was the weird fetish for systematization, the way everything is reduced to "game stats.” If you take something like Cthulhu in Lovecraft, for example, it is completely incomprehensible and beyond all human categorization. But in the game Call of Cthulhu, you see Cthulhu's "strength,” "dexterity,” and so on, carefully expressed numerically. There's something superheroically banalifying about that approach to the fantastic. On one level it misses the point entirely, but I must admit it appeals to me in its application of some weirdly misplaced rigor onto the fantastic: it's a kind of exaggeratedly precise approach to secondary world creation.

China Miéville

These individuals on steroids, does it enhance their career, does it give them a little more strength, a little more stamina, a little more psychological edge? Absolutely. How do you determine what - what their stats would be without steroids? It's impossible to tell.

José Canseco

Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way. (Ray Dalio)

Robert Parish and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar are the two reasons I became a vegetarian fully in the first place. They where the first ones I saw and I was 27 at the time and there was an article about Robert Parish and one of his martial art forms and I remember playing against this guy and asking him how he was running up and down the court with me and I was in my twenties. He said, "you have to learn to pace yourself young fella". ... Then I would go, "well then your car has no gas" and I thought about that. So at 27 I made the change. ... I had a good career but Robert Parish had a view to look at stats and a better career. If I would have known how to take care of my body ... then I would have played until I was 40 as well.

John Salley

I think the Pistons have such a well rounded team, which is why they're so successful. All you have to do is look at the stats defensively and at their rebounding and scoring.

Chuck Daly

Without a doubt in my mind, I should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. You look at my stats without my USFL stats, and I don't know how you can argue with that. Look at my combined yards. I'm not one to make excuses, so I'll play by their rules and not even count the USFL stats.

Herschel Walker

I take my vote as a salute to the little guy, the one who doesn't hit 500 home runs. I was one of the guys that did all they could to win. I'm proud of my stats, but I don't think I ever got on for.

Joe Morgan

I'm never the kind of person who's sitting at home reading the charts and basing how I feel about myself or even my career on stats. I've always based it on, 'Am I doing the best that I can do?'

Pink

There's only a couple stats that matter. No one cares how many blocked shots a guy has, how many hits.

Paul Coffey

His Prozone stats are often in the 80s, 90s.

Phil Brown (footballer)

In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.

R. A. Salvatore

The other, more nebulous, but very strong influence of RPGs was the weird fetish for systematization, the way everything is reduced to "game stats.”.

China Miéville

People who didn't see him play look at the stats and say, ‘Well, he didn't hit 500 homers, and he didn't do this or do that.' But again, if you hear the players who played against him, you realize the kind of respect they have for him. Willie Mays always said that for him, Roberto Clemente was the greatest all-around player he played against. (Roberto Clemente)