Keyword: Statistics

Smoking is one of leading causes of statistics.

(1911 – 1993) columnist & novelist

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom’s apple pie.

(1926 – 1991) American television journalist

They both (statistics & bikinis) show a lot, but not everything.

American baseball player

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

The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

Statistics are there to be broken.

English football player & commentator

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

American baseball pitcher

Statistics are no substitute for common sense.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

(1899 – 1995) humorist

Statistics are no substitute for common sense.

There are two kinds of statistics; those you look up and those you make up.

(1886 – 1975) American fiction writer

Statistics are damn lies.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

I can prove anything with statistics except the truth.

(1770 – 1827) British statesman, politician & prime minister

Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

(1899 – 1995) humorist

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts… for support rather than illumination.

(1844 – 1912) Scottish poet, novelist & literary critic

Fifty percent of people have a below-average understanding of statistics.

 Statistics always remind me of the fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet.

college football coach

Statistics and records are baseball talk; they keep records like most times sliding into second base on a Tuesday.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach