Moneyball' doesn't have anything to do with on-base percentage or statistics. It's a constant investigation of stagnant systems, to see if you can find value where it isn't readily apparent.

Statistics rarely drive me. Feelings, intuition, and gut instinct do.

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

People in Midland are real nice folks: I can't prove that with statistics, but I know West Texas, and it's just a fact.

The greatest moments are those when you see the result pop up in a graph or in your statistics analysis - that moment you realise you know something no one else does and you get the pleasure of thinking about how to tell them.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of all 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.

43.7 per cent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

I always find that statistics are hard to swallow and impossible to digest. The only one I can ever remember is that if all the people who go to sleep in church were laid end to end they would be a lot more comfortable.

I could prove God statistically.

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish-fulfilment.

There are three kinds of lies-lies, damned lies and statistics.

You and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker. That impertinent fellow who goes from house to house is one of the real masters of the statistical situation. The other is the man who organizes the results.

Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.