“If you focus on the statistics, that's the worst thing you can do in your life as a baseball player,”
Placido Polanco
“Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.”
Ernie Banks
“July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.”
Mark Twain
“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.”
Tom Seaver
“To me it will be one more of those esoteric statistics, one more of those historic footnotes that make baseball so great, because it is unpredictable,”
Sandy Alderson
“I don't let individual statistics make me a focus or more of a focus. I just tried to come out and attack early and get a big lead. We were able to take it in overtime and win.”
LeBron James
“I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics”
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