260 Quotes by Nate Silver

In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.

People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.

To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'

Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.

Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.

You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.

I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.