City Quote by Steve Bruce

The analysis of statistics is a big part of the modern game, and it's important as a modern manager to embrace areas that can…

— Brendan Rodgers

The fact is, as all we strikers know, we tend to get judged just on the number of goals.

— Samuel Eto'o

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…

— Gary Lineker

The stats don't matter to me a lot as long as we win.

— Danilo Gallinari

The only meaningful statistic is number of games won.

— Woody Hayes

Personally, I don't think about stats very much.

— Carl Nassib

If you want to speak about scoring goals, you should judge every midfielder the same way.

— Paul Pogba

As a kid I spent hours poring over football annuals, obsessing over clean-sheets records, attendances and county-league statistics. But data is a complicated business.…

— David James

One of the things I'd bring to Villa if I was in charge is the idea that winning is important in football, but winning…

— Ronald Koeman

There are games where the striker will be useful for the team in terms of creating space and being involved in the game, without…

— Alexandre Lacazette

Sacks are an important stat. But there's a lot more to playing football.

— Nick Bosa

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…

— Rachel Riley