Bill James quote: "None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the football coaches do, or that our analysis should take precedence over the informed opinions of experts. I'm not saying that at all."

It's easy to make a basket. Getting the material is the hard work.
BILL JAMES

If we come out of the first period tied, who knows?Maybe it?s a different game. If it?s 2-2 or 3-2 g...
BILL JAMES

Nobody likes to write about race. I thought I would do a [statistical] run of black players against ...
BILL JAMES

If a candidate for office starts talking about thinning the deer population or investing in barriers...
BILL JAMES

Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.
BILL JAMES

Our society is very, very good at developing certain types of skills and certain types of genius. We...
BILL JAMES

I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.
BILL JAMES

When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you -...
BILL JAMES

Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in g...
BILL JAMES

Bunting is usually a waste of time. The - generally, yeah, I mean, if you think about it, bunt is th...
BILL JAMES

The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the ...
BILL JAMES

All 22 guys on our team, they mean a lot to me. I love every one of them. It?s a shame this had to e...
BILL JAMES

There is a backlog right now but I don't know if it (can be blamed) on anybody else but Mother Natur...
BILL JAMES

I've lived in South Florida for 20 years, and up until five years ago, lived about three miles from ...
BILL JAMES

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how w...
BILL JAMES

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.
BILL JAMES

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.
BILL JAMES

We're starting to get pipelines full and (there is) some concern moving product forward. We're prett...
BILL JAMES

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to...
BILL JAMES

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by hav...
BILL JAMES

I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm ...
BILL JAMES

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.
BILL JAMES

There comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well tak...
BILL JAMES

Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our ba...
BILL JAMES

It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the n...
BILL JAMES

Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-wor...
BILL JAMES

We hate the idea of the asterisk or removing records because they're examples of simple-minded think...
BILL JAMES

We had a really good start in all of our schools. It went exceptionally well. It was almost like our...
BILL JAMES

You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.
BILL JAMES

There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.
BILL JAMES

Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will ch...
BILL JAMES

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason -...
BILL JAMES

The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.
BILL JAMES

Each one of the divisions of public safety deal with the public in some form or fashion.
BILL JAMES

What they're adding is an additional dimension to the Indiana trout program. It's a fish that's high...
BILL JAMES

There are many things that you can't measure. But the great fun of what I do for a living is fig...
BILL JAMES

Professionalism in law has brought us the O.J. Simpson case in lieu of justice.
BILL JAMES

Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.
BILL JAMES

Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers?
BILL JAMES

I came to NYU to study experimental theater. Shortly thereafter, I was featured in a 'Newsweek&#...
JAMES ST. JAMES

I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers...
JAMES ST. JAMES

Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big.
JAMES ST. JAMES

There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free...
JAMES ST. JAMES

Why, oh why, must we always go through pigs to get our truffles?
JAMES ST. JAMES

We danced on the lip of the volcano, so to speak. We were young, too. And New York was still a big, ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

I would go to the all-night grocery store and pretend that I was at Studio 54 because it was the onl...
JAMES ST. JAMES

Richie Rich, Keoki, Amanda LaPore are really successful. They've joined the culture at large.
JAMES ST. JAMES

I'll always be a party monster. I'll always love getting dressed up.
JAMES ST. JAMES

I was definitely the oddball freak show in school.
JAMES ST. JAMES

As for my identity within the context of New York nightlife? I left in the '90s, so I'm not ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.
JAMES ST. JAMES

When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fix...
BILL GATES

If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.
BILL EARLE

Everybody in the world thought we couldn't do it. But we did, dammit.
BILL KOCH

I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody...
BILL CARTWRIGHT

I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that mak...
BILL GATES

Some people think football is a matter of life and death...I can assure them it is much more serious...
BILL SHANKLEY

I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quar...
BILL COSBY

Look, when that crowd gets to cheering, when we know they're with us, when we know they like us, we ...
BILL CARLIN

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully va...
BILL COSBY

You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really unevolved? You ever noticed that?...
BILL HICKS

The folks you help won't remember it and the folks you hurt won't ever forget it.
BILL CLAYTON

The heart of marriage is memories.
BILL COSBY

A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
BILL COSBY

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'...
BILL GATES

As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a ...
BILL WATTERSON

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that non...
BILL WATTERSON

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
BILL COSBY

No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises th...
BILL CLINTON

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure t...
BILL SHANKLY

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than ...
BILL SHANKLY

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
BILL HOEST

I'll tell you, too, that's starting to depress me about UFO's, about the fact that they cross galaxi...
BILL HICKS

Our elections are free -- it's in the results where eventually we pay.
BILL STERN

Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.
BILL KELLY

Players win games, teams win championships.
BILL TAYLOR

We have to ask the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share again. Their incomes went up in the ...
BILL CLINTON

I'm not going to raise taxes on middle-class Americans to pay for the programs I've recommended.
BILL CLINTON

Stop worrying. Hollywood won’t turn your daughter into a nymphomaniac or get her hooked on drugs.....
BILL MAHER

The problem with people is that they're only human.
BILL WATTERSON

The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
BILL FRIST

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to b...
BILL GATES

Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think ...
BILL MAHER

The traditional American family has always been the foundation for success in America.
BILL O'REILLY

My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the diffe...
BILL GATES

See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.
BILL HALEY

My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
BUFFALO BILL

To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be worki...
BILL BRYSON

Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.
BILL BRADLEY

NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration...
BILL NYE

They advertise on the radio for food stamps!
BILL O'REILLY

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable ...
BILL GATES

It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y...
BILL PAXTON

When in doubt wear red.
BILL BLASS

Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketp...
BILL FRIST

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. T...
BILL FRIST

Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests o...
BILL FRIST

America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to...
BILL FRIST

September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think w...
BILL FRIST

America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford ...
BILL FRIST

Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of suppor...
BILL FRIST

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.
BILL NYE

Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's...
BILL BLASS

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.
BILL BLASS

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to...
BILL WATTERSON

Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
BILL NYE

If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of lau...
BILL NYE

If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll ...
BILL NYE

I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for...
BILL GATES

As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his o...
BUFFALO BILL

Washington newspaper men know everything.
BUFFALO BILL

Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
BUFFALO BILL

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ...
BILL GATES

Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.
BILL COPELAND

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.
BILL BRADLEY

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we...
BILL BRADLEY

Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.
BILL HICKS

I have realized over time that I missed the mark with HyperCard. I grew up in a box-centric culture ...
BILL ATKINSON

There are two sides to every story, and sometimes three, four, and five.
BILL COSBY

If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what ...
BILL COSBY

I was in NYC during 9/11; it happened on a Tuesday, I was on stage Thursday. It was a small crowd, b...
BILL BURR

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
BILL GATES

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
BILL GATES

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and...
BILL GATES

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.
BILL GATES

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more...
BILL GATES

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.
BILL GATES

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to...
BILL GATES

I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.
BILL GATES

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
BILL GATES

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
BILL GATES

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, a...
BILL GATES

I'm a sensationalist. I'm a big mouth. I get attention. In this world you have to - if you w...
BILL O'REILLY

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.
BILL GATES

I believe in term limits. I believe the country would be hugely better off if we had more turnover i...
BILL FLORES

Reunited with strawberry, raspberry and blueberry, I am berry, berry happy to be back working with J...
BILL COSBY

Parties are only bad when a fight breaks out, when men fight over women or vice versa. Someone takes...
BILL MURRAY

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stre...
BUFFALO BILL

We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides...
BILL BRYSON

We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters m...
BILL CLINTON

The tax collector must love poor people--he's creating so many of them.
BILL VAUGHAN

There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking f...
BILL MURRAY

I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See i...
BILL MURRAY

My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially m...
BILL O'REILLY

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles ne...
BILL BOWERMAN

You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just thi...
BILL BRYSON

There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
BILL BOWERMAN

People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour.
BILL MURRAY

Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just kee...
BILL WALTON

I was doing Babylon 5 season two and I was in all 22 episodes of that.
BILL MUMY

There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding th...
BILL O'REILLY

The U.K. and almost all of Europe have erred in terms of believing that austerity, fiscal austerity ...
BILL GROSS

The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly...
BILL GATES

Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and the...
BILL JANKLOW

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times o...
BILL BRADLEY

America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our...
BILL JOHNSON

I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I'm ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different pha...
BILL BERRY

Wellesley's president, Nannerl Overholser Keohane, approved a broad rule with a specific applica...
BILL DEDMAN

The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdo...
BILL VAUGHAN

The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of...
BILL BUFORD

Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don't think over time that's a good wa...
BILL GATES

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that...
BILL WATTERSON

The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't wa...
BILL WATTERSON

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
BILL WATTERSON

I just read this great science fiction story. It's about how machines take control of humans and tur...
BILL WATTERSON

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
BILL WATTERSON

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all th...
BILL WATTERSON

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.
BILL MAHER

I don't see why it's such a stretch for distributors, buyers, and studios to put cartoon cha...
BILL PLYMPTON

I don't pay attention to celebrities. I don't photograph them. They don't dress so... in...
BILL CUNNINGHAM

I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000...
BILL NYE

Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision.
BILL SIENKIEWICZ

When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing will win arguments and straight...
BILL COSBY

Chevy made some big saves when he needed to. They could have easily had the lead after two periods c...
BILL BESTWICK

We just keep moving the cots a little closer together.
BILL BERRY

put forward a hypothesis, a morally impossible hypothesis, to show why it is morally impossible and ...
BILL BENNETT

those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children, alas,...
BILL BENNETT

I can't speak highly enough of Michael Fey. Throughout all of this, he's been excellent. He's had a ...
BILL BENNETT

We played okay. We had 15 hits and we had an eight-run second inning.
BILL BAKER

We're pumped. Max didn't make the top 20 his sophomore year, and last year he was 17th by one point....
BILL BAKER

We played a focused and solid first half. But Black Hills took the initiative in the second half.
BILL BAKAMUS

We had some good opportunities, with free throws and short jumpers, but I think we were a little bit...
BILL BAKAMUS

We've been looking at the numbers and wondering just how long we can sustain the kind of insured dam...
BILL BAILEY

We certainly make our customers aware of flood insurance, but so many turn it down.
BILL BAILEY

What you're seeing is more concentrated [patrols], ... They're more vigilant about following up with...
BILL BELL

That's pretty good for college. They just looked good.
BILL BELL

The referendum will boil down to a fundamental debate on the future of this great state. The referen...
BILL BECKER

If you ever need an event to be canceled, just invite me.
BILL BEASLEY

It's a good deal for both sides. Willie has a chance to help us in a lot of different positions, sta...
BILL BAVASI

Of course, when they had their best years, they never quite got it done. They went (to the Super Bow...
BILL ADAMS

George and Mary Stewart became my unofficial Houston parents and the most wonderful, entertaining, h...
BILL ADAMS

I said 'no.' I would vote 'no,' ... I am reminded of Rogers firefighters who were stuck in a hotel r...
BILL ADAMS

The steady demand for our product in the face of fare increases indicates that the market currently ...
BILL AYER

Eventually, I stopped picking up the phone.
BILL AUSTIN

The budget surplus is real, not imagined, and it means that the tax is no longer needed,
BILL ARCHER

With the things that create blight, there's a common thread that runs through all of them. If we wer...
BILL ANDERSON

It happens a lot with English bulldogs, a breed known to have difficulty giving birth. They frequent...
BILL ALLEN

We believe the success of the continued evolution of the Paul Lee's Chinese Kitchen brand will be be...
BILL ALLEN

Our birds are hand-fed by ourselves. Birds don't like to be handled, but hand-feeding is our forte,
BILL ALLEN

None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the football coaches do, or that our analysis should take precedence over the informed opinions of experts. I'm not saying that at all.

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None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the football coaches do, or that our analysis should take precedence over the informed opinions of experts. I'm not saying that at all.

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