An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
Andrew Lang

And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women.
Warren Farrell

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.
Ernie Banks

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
Marilyn vos Savant

Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.
Stanley Marcus

Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.
Edward Burnett Tylor

Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics.
Jerry Only

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

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
Jorge Luis Borges

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.
Bill James

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Mark Twain

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.
Kim Campbell

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

He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.
Romano Prodi

However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.
Bob Filner

I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.
Ronald Fisher

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
George Canning

I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.
Mike Schmidt

I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.
Dizzy Dean

I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning.
Mark Messier