Statistics Quotes

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.

The statistics show that when you've done something for so long, it'll either be, yeah, you're slowing down, or someone's doing it better. But physically, I feel great. More than that, it's mental and spiritual.

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.

Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully 93 percent of additional income gains coming out of the recession went straight into the wallets and purses of the top 1 percent.

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era.

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

Big companies are often in the process of laying off workers. Small startup companies are the ones that are hiring. The statistics prove that's where job growth is going to occur.

Statistics is the grammar of science.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country, and statistics have shown that the recidivism rate for those criminals is high.

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!

People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities.

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.

You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics.

I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well.