90 Quotes by Bill James

Bunting is usually a waste of time. The - generally, yeah, I mean, if you think about it, bunt is the only play in baseball that both sides applaud. The - if the home team bunts, you get a base. The home team applauds because they get an out, and the other team applauds because they get a base. So what does that tell you?

There are many things that you can't measure. But the great fun of what I do for a living is figuring out ways to measure things that people previously considered intangible.

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

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

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.

Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.