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It's not even his stats. It's more so his leadership. When he walked in the huddle, he was in command. He really had you confident. Never when we were down or tired did we think we were going to lose.

Mike Imoh

Stats don't mean a lot to me. What means a lot is being available to play every day. I like to play the game and that's what I think about. I love the game and I don't want to lose that.

Alfonso Soriano

That's looks a little more like the way the Trojans ought to play. We played more like we're capable of playing tonight. Our kids played hard in a game we really, really, really, really needed. I'm very proud of them. I don't know anything about the stats, but I know we played harder tonight.

Hugh Fountain

Last week Marceline physically put it to us and we didn't get much going offensively. We focused on that this week; getting back to our power running game and it's evident by our stats tonight.

Ryan Watson

We've got a lot of guys to keep stats.

Dave Urick

It has to be a nomination from a coach or athletic director. I thought her stats were similar to those being posted on the web site (for previous winners).

Dave Ketterman

I don't know. We've just got to play our game and make adjustments based on what they do. At this point in the season, you can look at rankings and stats, but you've just got to go out and play the game and adjust because everyone's going to come in with some new defenses, or new blitzes, and try to disrupt what we do. We just have to be ready to adjust.

Dan Kreider

To join that elite group you have to be an all-around player, and Stephanie's stats bear that out. You also have to have that scoring mentality and not be afraid to shoot. The great scorers don't stop shooting. They might miss a few in a row, but they always believe they'll make the next one.

Karim Nohra

I was looking at the stats (from 2004). And there were an awful lot of kills we're going to need to get elsewhere now.

Bob Rogers

I suspect the stats tell the story. We couldn't have shot the ball much worse in the first half.

Pat Lewis

I just think if you know your name is going to be in the lineup, it gives you some kind of sense of confidence. When you come to the park waiting for the lineup card to go up, then you've got to prepare yourself to play, that's one of the reasons why bench players don't quite put up the stats that regulars do.

Nick Green

If you go by stats, I could have a dominant pitcher against a weak hitting team and he could get better stats, but what would that tell me?

Shon Muna

I just tried to go out there and win the game. I don't pay attention to stats. Wins and losses, that's the only stat I pay attention to.

Taylor Bennett

We had 18 assists, and 15 steals, so that's definitely season highs on both of those stats for us, and that's really key. Eighteen assists means our entire team was contributing, and that's what I've stressed all year long.

Chris Seider

We lost the series. You can't look at individual stats, ... You've got to give them credit. They came to our house and stole one.

Peja Stojakovic

She's been a great leader for us. She's been leading the cheers on the bench, taking stats. She's handling it a lot better than I could in that situation.

Wayne Shelton

His stats weren't all that great, but the guys felt his presence very much.

Tom Peterson

He's a really neat kid, and he doesn't get too wrapped up in the stats. He really epitomizes a team player.

Tim Sughroue

I'm not into stats. Nine strikeouts is a plus, but the main thing is just to be back. My arm felt great and I was hitting my spots and keeping the ball down.

Jason Berken

If you look at the season stats, we're about even (with opponents) in hits, but in earned runs we've actually allowed fewer. But we are way up in errors.

Mike Gill

We expected that coming in, because we wanted to establish a physical presence on the O-line. To tell you the truth, I really don't care as long as we win. It's not high school anymore where you're looking to put up stats. We're all about the W.

Rhett Bomar

Eleven months of stats aren't enough to gauge anything.

Bill Veteran

We played like a very unaware basketball team. We knew Marissa was a threat with her shooting. Look at her stats. She shoots the 3 great. We just weren't aware, and to not be aware of a player that good is scary.

Cristy Mckinney

He's very quiet, very to himself. Give him a computer and a TV and he's set for the rest of his life. I have to be around people. I can tell you my stats from Pop Warner. Justin can't tell you his stats from last year. He's laid back.

Jeff Webb

Natalie played another good game on defense. It doesn't always show in the stats, but she does a great job on defense; she's very frustrating for opponents.

Chris Webster

We have a great defending team. I've said it before, your defense is part of your goalkeeper stats. I think the guys have done fantastic in front. Tonight, all five guys came up, played great, and limited their opportunities.

Pat Onstad

It was down last year, but just looking at the stats, they've got five players back who averaged double figures.

Heather Hill

We realized that we don't have the kind of stats like other sports do that drive interest from a fan perspective. We wanted to come up with something unique that shows races more at a glance.

Ramsey Poston

Stats are created for sportswriters. Stats are not a measure of you as a ballplayer, and not of us as a team.

Buck Kicinski

I told him just mainly to understand the situation he's in. People aren't stupid. All they have to do is look at the stats sheet. As a pitching coach, I'd circle that guy's name and I'm saying, ?Look, that guy's not going to beat us. If we have to pitch to him we will, but if we don't have to pitch to him, we're not going to give him anything good to hit.' So I told him, ?Stay patient.

Spanky Mcfarland

If you look at the stats, you back off him a little bit and that's probably what Tennessee did.

Mark Turgeon

A 'C' effort at best. We didn't play well at all. We had some good stats and Justin ran the ball amazingly, but we're a lot better than we showed.

Joe Ayoob

When I checked the stats, I saw that I was more than one putt per round more than I have been for the previous two years.

Trevor Immelman

The extra pass is what's putting us into scoring situations. That's something I grew up learning under Vaughn Stapleton. The kids have to buy into it. They have to realize that our goal is not to have great individual stats -- it's winning.

Mike Frauenheim

When we started five years ago we had 20% of the stats. We've got 90% now.

Dale Petroskey

Greg is a quiet individual. You really don't know what he's done until after the game is over with. During the course of the game, we expect more out of him and the stats speak for themselves. He's our key guy and we've just got to keep it rolling.

Mike Gainey

We talk about it everyday. Whenever we get out of our guard play, we look to Derek and Rodney because they control what we do. It's not even about points. It's about controlling the boards, altering shots and all the things they do that you don't see in the stats. That's why we're successful.

Greg Smith

I'm basically trying to play as physical as I can . . . trying to make plays, disrupt things. I don't know what stats show so far but I know I'm doing the best I can, no doubt about it. I feel pretty good.

Jonathan Lewis

As a student, school has to come first. Maybe if you were a professional, and you did this for a radio station and got paid for it, you would go more in depth, look up more information, find some more articles and maybe more in-depth stats for the other team.

Jake Lemon

You rely on a lot of computerized stats to tell you what guys are doing, what they're not doing. We didn't have that, so it's going to just be another step just to learn how to do all of that and put all of that together.

Ron Guidry

It's a gut decision. You can look at the stats and see what they have done, but it comes down to how you feel. It's like a good detective that can just tell something.

Richard Brewer

What we're proudest of is the broadening of knowledge. When we started five years ago, we had 20 percent of the stats. We've got 90 percent of the stats now.

Dale Petroskey

She's absolutely the smartest player I've had the privilege to coach. You almost don't notice what she does until you look at the stats at the end of the game. She is what has made us the king we have become.

Joyce Walker

A lot of people are scared off from fantasy baseball because they think it's strictly for stats geeks. It's hurt the growth. It should have grown at the same rate. We want to change that perception.

Gregg Klayman

Look what he's done. He's brought a program back, and that's a big thing. He's the leader of the team. A lot of people say his stats aren't as good as Reggie Bush and all theirs, but shoot, he was out by the third quarter every game. We helped him do that, so it's cool. I love it, it's awesome.

Kasey Studdard

We moved the ball on offense but we didn't have a lot of stats because our defense took over. They were unbelievable.

Nemer Hassey

He's probably as celebrated a player that's ever been here in any sport. It's been neat so far that he's been able to play the last two (seasons) because we only had him half a season the first two. You can look at his stats, and see he's one of the better quarterbacks in the country, and he has been the past two seasons.

Watson Brown

He's definitely an all-around player; he can do it all. But our team really needed some defense and he has been able to step in and do it and do a good job at it. He's probably a better forward than he is a defenseman -- and you definitely don't get the stats or attention that you would as a forward -- but he's a real team guy and accepts any challenge we give him in the name of the team.

George Reed

He has responded well against teams that have other big players. He stepped up. He hit the boards tough for us. I don't know the stats offhand, but I know he had a great game.

Jason Lawson

At halftime, I looked at the stats and it was basically dead even, almost every single category exactly the same. ... I felt like they were playing good, we just needed to step up the intensity a little bit more. They came out in the second half, settled back down and they stepped it up and we started dominating.

Mike Gurney

He has a workmanlike attitude every night out. His stats are not great, but he gets us going on defense. He plays so hard. If you watch the films, you notice all of the little things that he is able to accomplish to make us a better basketball team.

Ronnie Bottoms

For the most part my year went pretty good. I had a couple abysmal starts that really ruined my stats. You can't have those. I need to show them I can be consistent with my pitches.

Adam Wainwright

We had a chance down the stretch. Look at the stats from the second half compared to the first. I like the shots we were getting. They were all pretty good shots.

Bo Ryan

The guy's calm and collected. He just called plays and executed. The guy's just a winner. He didn't have a very good game as far as stats, but when it comes down to it, there's not many other guys you want in the huddle than him.

Brian Finneran

Without ever seeing him except for this evening, he throws with the long arm and has pretty good velocity. I saw his stats and he was effective against us. He beat us with a pretty good fastball.

Tom Hilbert

It may not show up in the stats, but he?s had a lot of big plays for us. He?s had the big shot, the deflection, the rebound or made the big pass. He?s been invaluable to us.

Billy Taylor

He is a good passer with great stats coming out of high school. However, his leadership skills is what impressed me the most, and that is something that is an intangible at that position.

Walter Wells

Jason is one of those guys you have to see every night to really appreciate. You might see a couple of his great passes on the highlights, and you might see a triple double in the stats, but you won't see all the quiet, little plays he makes that help a team win.

Jim Jackson

We had something like 200 more passes than rushes attempted on us last year because no one could run on us. When you look at the stats, it may seem kind of crazy that we're giving up all these passing yards, numbers can lie. We're going to be good against the pass.

Drayton Florence

He volunteered for that switch because it would better the team. It gives us an extra running back. He'd get more stats at tailback, but he is not about that. He sacrificed himself for the better of the team.

Randy Raynor

We looked at the stats and came in to talk to Coach about it. He said keep our shoulders up, and we have to have a better mentality about things.

Dion Harris

Fortunately, it won't affect Camp's career stats. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the $2 million will go down in the books as unearned.

Brendan Daly

Certainly the stats so far suggest Carlton aren't going as long as what they did previously. We need to prepare for whether they go long or short.

Alastair Clarkson

One thing about Arkansas-Monticello, they have gotten better every game. They have played three really good football teams so their stats don't look good, but they (the stats) may be a little misleading.

Sam Mccorkle

The housing stats were a relief for investors worried about rate rises.

David Stix

[The stats] do amaze me. I didn't know until the end of the season they were near that. ... I have confidence in myself. I think I can do even better because I'm stronger, faster and have more experience.

Nate Roberts

Obviously, we need to do a better job of preparing ourselves for high quality opponents like this. When we are battling adversity, as well as our opponent, we need to keep our composure and play our game. We didn't do that today and the final stats told the whole story. Hopefully, we can put this game behind us and come in focused tomorrow against Sacramento State.

Neil Macdonald

Great stats right there. I haven't played particularly well in the Shootouts. Even though I haven't played particularly well, we've still gotten wins. So it's good to have teammates who can back you up.

Dedrick Finn

Sometimes people overlook my stats, but I'm not like the kind of guy to go out there to get a bunch of attention anyway, ... I just go out there and play. I had over 1,300 yards (combined in 2004) in 13 games and 10 touchdowns, and it is not easy in the NFL to accomplish that.

Michael Pittman

I don't think criminals read the paper and I don't think they will look at the crime stats.

Charlotte Raup

We knew coming in that rebounding was one of the keys for us. They out-rebounded us by 20 in the regular season. I'm sure when we see the stats sheet tonight it'll even be more than that.

Curt Smyth

All you have to do is look at the rebounding stats. That was the story of the game. You get one [shot] and they get two, it's really hard to win.

Skip Prosser

All those stats erase once the ball is tipped off. I don't really worry about those numbers. I just worry about getting the 'W' on Saturday.

Antwi Atuahene

He didn't make a mistake out there (Sunday). He's out there guarding guards with a bad ankle. That job he did was something special. It kind of goes unsung because there's no big stats for him. But he's a special player for us.

Dean Ellis

I talk to them here and there and see on them ESPN, check out their stats and stuff.

Frank Gore

The first week, I dwelled on my stats. This week, in the second half, that helped me out. I didn't worry about it. I'm feeling more comfortable every week.

Joe Ayoob

At first, Coach (Richard) Schmidt looked at my stats and didn't think I could play. But he saw I led the team in assists and decided to give me a chance. He believed in me and made me work hard.

Mark Borders

I feel relaxed out (on the field) because I know my team is backing me up. I don't worry about my stats or anything; I just want to help my team win any way that I can.

Nicole Green

Look at his stats . . . look what he did. He was getting two points a game for us. How many one-goal games have we lost this year so far? Those two points a game, you don't think we'd have six more wins, eight more wins?

Mike Sillinger

You can tell by the stats. We didn't defend.

Arturo Dubois

If we look at our stats, it really was a team effort, you know. We had girls coming off the bench and serving aces.

Shane Jones

Stats, we were toe-to-toe. It's the turnovers and the mental part. We gotta soul search a little and find the little things we did wrong.

Kevin Bouis

I've never had command - just look at my stats.

Allan Simpson

If you look at our hitting stats, our hitting stats are not very good. A lot of those points were given up in games one and three.

Greg Murley

I just play my game. I don't care about stats. I just play hard and try to make something happen, either for myself or for one of my teammates.

Crosby Styles

They get along with each other and Brian does a good job keeping them together. There's been other teams with as much talent, maybe more, but they didn't have that intangible - something there's no stats for.

Larry Chavez

When you hear the stats that the average age of widowhood is 58, it's scary.

Dee Lee

We knew that to get better, we had to run the ball. The stats are nice, but we were 5-4 last year, and then when we played Fort Meade, we showed we couldn't do anything but throw and they ate us up.

Rick Sanson

You're not out here for stats you're just here to protect and to serve.

Kelvin Frazier

There were two things we needed to do well coming into this game. Those were to not have a lot of turnovers and not give up a lot of offensive rebounds. And we give up 27 turnovers and 23 offensive rebounds. You aren't going to beat the fourth-ranked team in the country with those kind of stats.

Keith Richard

I was pleased with that because I'm not going to hit a lot of fairways round here -- my driving stats prove that.

Paul Broadhurst

I'm just trying to get the best jump I can possibly get. I'm sure [Molina] has the best arm in the league, and his stats show that. He's a phenomenal catcher. I wasn't going to go unless I got an unbelievable jump, and I was able to do that.

Ryan Freel

He deserved a touchdown on his stats.

Will Blackmon

He's not selfish with the puck at all. He likes to pass, he likes to get it in close. As you look at the stats other players have high scoring chances, but they don't have many assists and Derek does.

Matt Wade

Rebounding was the sole key to the game. We got wiped out in the rebounding stats.

Brad Boy

The latest figures show that many of the tendencies perceived in the March 2005 survey persisted through September, and also supports the latest Quarterly Employment Survey by Stats SA, which showed that 99,000 jobs were created in the formal sector between June 2005 and September 2005.

Lullu Krugel

They'll be looking at other stats going forward. On average, the fourth quarter was a good quarter for employment. I don't think they're viewing that as a serious concern here.

Mark Chandler

I told him this league is about winning and losing. It doesn't matter what your stats are, as long as you're the quarterback on a winning team you're going to be a star.

Lawyer Milloy

There have been no Vince Lombardi speeches, no gimmick stats. We haven't had to motivate them that way, they do it intrinsically, they want to dive on the floor.

Dan Judd

Like that stats show, it was pretty much that way. It's nice to have an easy one.

Brian Renno

A card can go from 50 cents to $10 if the player starts to have a few good games. You have to keep track of their stats. It is kind of like the stock market. If the player has a good performance, the cards will do really well.

Brad Barber

Normally, people think that because I play for a private school, and we play other private schools, that the play is not as good and so that's why my stats are what they are.

Scott Ashley

His stats on paper -- you watch him play, and he's that good, ... You always have to know where he's at; always have a body on him.

Dominic Raiola

I was open, and when you're open with these guys, they'll find you. You can read my stats and I'm not a goal scorer. The last thing I thought was I'm going to score on my first shift in a Red Wings uniform.

Cory Cross

Robin was knocking shots away left and right. I knew she had a lot. I didn't it was that many until I looked at the stats afterward. It was impressive.

Nick Vandewalle

It goes to show the best team doesn't always win. Stats-wise, we showed we were a better team, but they beat us to the punch.

Torry Holt

My putting stats [140th] for the tour are weak.

Dan Forsman

It seems a shame that all that will count from this is the stats.

Fred Ledesma

I know what the national crime stats are, they say violence is gong down. But tell that to the latest victim. They don't care what the latest stats say.

Annemarie Matulis

I study the science of sleep. We knew the number was high where people sleep on different beds for different schedules and horrible conflicting habits. ... A survey 10 years ago from the Better Sleep Council said almost 1 in 4 would sleep better if they were in different beds. Now 10 years later we see the stats.

Pete Bils

Avon had a lot to do with our shooting stats. They played great defense. They took away our inside game.

Josh Page

There were no tryouts for the team, because the athletes were playing all over. They were chosen based on their stats throughout the year and by recommendations from Australian coaches.

Marita Payne

These stats are meaningless in the absence of a common test and common standards.

Diane Ravitch

We're a better team than what the record shows, so it's really tough on us to think about being 9-11. We have a losing record right now and we're much better than that, better than what the stats show. We need to go out and prove it.

Ra'sean Dickey

I take my vote as a salute to the little guy, the one who doesn't hit 500 home runs. I was one of the guys that did all they could to win. I'm proud of my stats, but I don't think I ever got on for.

Joe Morgan

I know the stats may not have said it, but that's as good as we can play on defense. Sundays usually aren't a real fun day around the office but watching that defense and those defensive tackles play (on film) makes it fun.

Mike Drass

Everyone knows the kid's special. Scratch that. He's not a kid after the way he played tonight. He's a man. The stats don't show what he did for this football team.

Mike Imoh

I heard that a lot, but never had a school say it to me. When people see the stats for guys from smaller schools, they don't respect them as much because I wasn't playing against Woodland Hills every week.

Luke Getsy

That first night when we looked at the stats those three girls did all the scoring. I knew we had to contain those three.

Donald Bough

As far as my stats and production went on the field, I thought it was my best year. I felt really good at the end of the season with the system. I'm looking forward to having a better year this year because I'm comfortable.

Orpheus Roye

I think the Gold Glove is more than just stats. I look at how defense affects the pitching staff.

Perry Hill

In any year, the stats in Iowa show we are in a relatively safe location, but that can change dramatically; a lot of it depends on what travels through our campus.

Chuck Green

They say stats are for losers and I guess that's what it was. Because we were concerned about where we ranked on defense because if we didn't have something to motivate us, we would have been as lackluster as our offense.

Eugene Robinson

This ball is priceless. He is the best in the league now and he will be the best in the league ever. The stats don't lie.

Eric Ford

It is a new game. All the old stats are washed away. I expect them to shoot better (tonight).

Eric Volbert

My family is honored to have known Doc. I was privileged to sit on the bench and keep the stats for Doc. I will treasure this time with him and his team for my life.

Eric Turner