Quotes About Analysis

We charted individual pitches by hand, so I had that data from game to game, but from year to year, I didn't really have that data, because a lot of times it was discarded.

No, I think the pitching today has more depth.

You have to do a lot of planning, certainly in football. We watch the opposition three or four times before we play them.

At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

The really smart conspiracies are the ones that explain, 'This is why this is plausible,' not, 'This is what happened.' If it makes sense and if it's possible, I'd investigate it.

When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why.

I play football like chess. You have to think a lot and anticipate what could happen after you make your move.

Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.

The amount of data and analysis available for free is a true example of information explosion has leveled the playing field for individual investors.

When it comes down to playoff basketball, it's attention to detail.

The playoffs are a chess match, with adjustments every game.

I think there is a difference between being critical of plays and being critical of players and coaches.

Not to be narcissistic, but I truly believe in order to make yourself better, you should see what you did before and what was good about that and what wasn't - same way a football team plays a game and then they go back and watch film.

I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.

The Pluto system is much more complex than I had expected.

After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism.

We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.

The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.

When you break a poem down in order to perform it, you have to engage closely with many aspects of what it's about, how it works, how it's constructed and so on. If you write a poem alongside it, to complement it, you start to feel poetry's method, poetry's way of looking at things.

Poems are not read: they are reread. Reread the poem, then read between the lines, then look at it, then watch it, then peek at it: handle it like an object. Contemplate its shadows, angles and dimensions.

I would like to talk about poems like I talk about football.

I've always been interested in why do people behave in certain ways which are crazy from a normal point of view.

I've grown up in the film industry and I've been watching them, analyzing them, laughing at them, totally understanding them and getting their point of view, and, at times, taking up for them. So I'm part of it and it's part of me.