Christian Yelich Quotes

The value of having numbers - data - is that they aren't subject to someone else's interpretation. They are just the numbers. You can decide what they mean for you.

You'll never hear me talk about stats.

I'm not a numbers type of guy who says I need this many yards, this many touchdowns.

In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.

The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.

That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers.

Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.

We’re not used to calculating large amounts of data. Our brains think anecdotally.

I think putting numbers together into a coherent framework always seemed to me to be what really matters.

I'm not too worried about stats and stuff like that.

Stats aren't everything.

I understand what sabermetrics get across, and what they're getting across is to keep it simple. Especially for me, as a pitcher, that's something that helps me - finding ways to keep it simple. Numbers can only tell so much.

I've never been a stat guy.

Serious numbers will speak to us always.

No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data

Know your numbers' is a fundamental precept of business.

Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an inadequate tool for learning what you needed to know to evaluate baseball players and baseball games. Think about it. One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks. The difference between a good hitter and an average hitter is simply not visible-it is a matter of record

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

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences so brilliantly successful.

None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the football coaches do, or that our analysis should take precedence over the informed opinions of experts. I'm not saying that at all.

I'm a bit of a freak for evidence-based analysis. I strongly believe in data.

Our view is that the very best data miners or statisticians can earn as much as the very best golfers or tennis players.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

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.

We must never let a blizzard of statistics blind us to the real lives and people behind them.