A Quote by Vince Lombardi

While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.

Vince Lombardi

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Vince Lombardi
American - Coach
June 11, 1913 - September 3, 1970

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

Jim Bouton

By the laws of statistics we could probably approximate just how unlikely it is that it would happen. But people forget especially those who ought to know better, such as yourself that while the laws of statistics tell you how unlikely a particular coincidence is, they state just as firmly that coincidences do happen.

Robert A. Heinlein

The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.

William Ralph Inge

While I honor the soldiers in my family, and I am a student of history, the past is the past, and I do not live in the past.

Robert Wilkie

As soon as the circumstances of an experiment are well known, we stop gathering statistics. ... The effect will occur always without exception, because the cause of the phenomena is accurately defined. Only when a phenomenon includes conditions as yet undefined,Only when a phenomenon includes conditions as yet undefined, can we compile statistics. ... we must learn therefore that we compile statistics only when we cannot possibly help it; for in my opinion, statistics can never yield scientific truth.

Claude Bernard

I am interested in the past. Perhaps one of the reasons is we cannot make, cannot change the past. I mean you can hardly unmake the present. But the past after all is merely to say a memory, a dream. You know my own past seems continually changed when I am remembering it, or reading things that are interesting to me.

Jorge Luis Borges

I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics.

Fernando Torres

[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.

Evan Esar

Don't let the fear of statistics keep you from launching a continual improvement program. The statistics hurdle is easily overcome, going out of business is not.

John Novak

People say, 'Don't live in the past.' But I guess it depends on how interesting your past is.

Effa Manley

Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.

Bernie Siegel

It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie is so false or inconclusive as that which is based on statistics.

Hilaire Belloc

Data-driven statistics has the danger of isolating statistics from the rest of the scientific and mathematical communities by not allowing valuable cross-pollination of ideas from other fields.

Lawrence Shepp

I live by statistics, so if look at U.S. Census statistics regarding families making over $100,000 dollars a year, 93% of them have broadband internet at home.

David L. Cohen

We lisp in numbers, in the U.S. We are deluged by ample, often mysterious statistics. ... Like many in this country, I have come to regard statistics with doubt and merely as a hint of the probable shape of fact.

Martha Gellhorn

I think people are finally realising that women are interesting and more interesting the older they get. But it's taken a while for that realisation to happen.

Christine Bottomley

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