Quotes About Accuracy

Plan your free-kick and imagine where you need to hit the ball. Hang a T-shirt under the bar and try to hit it with the ball.

I'm not Yadier Molina behind the plate, but I can throw a ball to second on a rope.

Fact doesn't have to be plausible; it just has to be fact.

What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed.

I'm not interested in pleasing color; I'm interested in exact color.

With goal-line technology, there are plenty of results that could be changed.

The truth is that in the NFL, the job is to deliver the ball from the pocket. That's the job.

More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.

Because what I say from that podium has got to be accurate, and I'm the only one who's going to be held liable if it's not accurate.

I found a mistake in a rule. They addressed the wrong rule number... I pointed it out, did an amendment, and everybody was happy after that.

I got snubbed about eight times for the Mid-Summer Classic, and I know what type of career I had, and I know that I'm a true All-Star. The selection process is not very accurate.

When you're clinical in front of goal you are going to win games.

If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.

Writing comics and drawing comics is a really very specific art form. It's a lot easier to get it wrong than it is to get it right.

It's not in my place to comment on what the media says. You can write whatever you want to write. I'd just rather it be the truth.

The franking commission is not there to fact-check.

We buy into the computer, and everything that comes from the computer, we believe to be the truth.

I don't want happy-face conclusions. I want the truth.

I try to use and, furthermore, strive to focus on the actual facts surrounding and impacting any issue.

The bigger a data set that you have, the more polls, the more surveys that you have that people undertake, the more accurate your models are going to be. That's just a fact of data science.

If you are a journalist, check and double-check your sources. Don't just swallow what politicians tell you.

Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.

I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life circumstances coming out. Granted it can be swayed by how people tell that story, but overall, I like it because it is true.

At the heart of every slice is an open clubface. And it usually goes with a steep swing that cuts across the ball from out to in.