Alex Smith Quotes

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

Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.

Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.

Americans are analytical in their sports, which are very stop-start, so the numbers tend to add up. That's why Moneyball works for baseball. It doesn't work so well for football because it's a fluid game.

My form with Denmark hasn't been too bad. I got off to a very slow start with five goals in my first 50 games.

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

Parker's grand slam is the same as going 4 for 4, even though he went 1 for 4.

We need a Moneyball revolution in the NFL. We need Spread teams and Run and Shoot teams and Option teams.

I am way more accurate than my completion percentage shows.

Literally everybody talks about 56 percent completion percentage. It gets brought up in every meeting. It's something I'm trying to work on.

I don't believe in traditional, head-to-head polling.

As I've become a professional, I just feel more pressure to produce, to score goals and get assists. I know I'm a good player, but it gives evidence of how good you are if you're able to look at how many passes you've made in a game or how many chances you create. It's in the books. It's become more about stats as I've become a professional.

I have never had an interest in opinion polls. They are merely an indicator, that's all.

I had a lot of stats in college, and they didn't count for wins. So whatever it takes to win football games is the goal that I set.

I don't really look at numbers. I couldn't tell you what my home-road stats are or anything like that.

Statistics are one thing. But if you're not putting up the numbers as far as winning, they're not going to consider you for things like the MVP.

I'm a massive football fan, so when Ladbrokes approached me and asked me to take a look at the statistics, I jumped at the chance.

Statistics can be so misleading. It is funny, though, how often at the moment you see one team had 60 per cent of the ball but still lost.

I don't judge my performance on how many assists I have or how many points I have.

Every time I think that political analysts and writers will finally recognize that most of them don't understand much about political polls, they prove me wrong. They don't know how to read them; they don't understand the importance of cross tabs within a given poll, and they don't know how to analyze them.

Tennis is interesting. I feel, in terms of stats and stuff, maybe we're a little bit behind the curve, especially me just coming to the States and seeing stats used for, obviously, NFL, NBA, et cetera. Especially in baseball, there's stats galore.

A lot of people don't really understand that a statistic is an indicator, but it doesn't really give the full picture of the body of work. There's been time when I've had one sack or no sacks and controlled a whole game, and I've seen other cats get three or four sacks and it had no effect on that game.

I get the normal stats, like tackles and pass completion and high-intensity runs. I get them after every game to see how similar they are to every game and to make sure I'm hitting the targets - or not too far away from them.

I don't really care about statistics from other attackers.

If he's averaging 25 points and I can contain him to 17, then I've won the battle. If he averages 12 assists and I kept him to seven, I'm winning the game.