Analytics Quote by Steve Ballmer

Analytics only goes so far. Basketball, more than baseball, for example, is really a team sport.

— Steve Ballmer

Things happen in baseball, even if, in theory, it's something you don't do. Stats are a tool, but it doesn't mean that's how a…

— Jon Miller

Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around,…

— Chad Harbach

Baseball is a game based on adversity. It's a game that's going to test you repeatedly. It's going to find your weaknesses and vulnerabilities…

— Theo Epstein

More than any other games, baseball gives its players space - both physical and emotional - in which to define themselves.

— John Eskow

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

— Rollie Fingers

Baseball is just a game, obviously, but it means a lot to a lot of different people.

— Clayton Kershaw

Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on…

— Edward Abbey

Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything.

— Toby Harrah

Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing…

— Ernie Harwell

Statistics are the lifeblood of baseball. In no other sport are so many available and studied so assiduously by participants and fans. Much of…

— Leonard Koppett

Baseball is like any sport. It's mostly instincts.

— Colin Cowherd