diff --git a/src/callbacks.py b/src/callbacks.py
index 2d48cecd1..fcde60f37 100644
--- a/src/callbacks.py
+++ b/src/callbacks.py
@@ -340,7 +340,6 @@ def tokenize(s, channel=None):
     start = time.time()
     try:
         ret = Tokenizer(brackets=brackets,pipe=pipe,quotes=quotes).tokenize(s)
-        log.stat('tokenize took %s seconds.' % (time.time() - start))
         return ret
     except ValueError, e:
         raise SyntaxError, str(e)
@@ -1065,7 +1064,6 @@ class Commands(object):
             self.log.debug('Error return: %s', utils.gen.exnToString(e))
             irc.error(str(e))
         elapsed = time.time() - start
-        log.stat('%s took %s seconds', name, elapsed)
 
     def getCommandHelp(self, name):
         name = canonicalName(name)
diff --git a/src/log.py b/src/log.py
index 2d6bf4882..ef275cacf 100644
--- a/src/log.py
+++ b/src/log.py
@@ -222,11 +222,6 @@ conf.registerGlobalValue(conf.supybot.log, 'level',
     LogLevel(logging.INFO, """Determines what the minimum priority level logged
     will be.  Valid values are DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR,
     and CRITICAL, in order of increasing priority."""))
-conf.registerGlobalValue(conf.supybot.log, 'statistics',
-    ValidLogLevel(-1, """Determines what level statistics reporting
-    is to be logged at.  Mostly, this just includes, for instance, the time it
-    took to parse a message, process a command, etc.  You probably don't care
-    about this."""))
 conf.registerGlobalValue(conf.supybot.log, 'timestampFormat',
     registry.String('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S', """Determines the format string for
     timestamps in logfiles.  Refer to the Python documentation for the time
@@ -278,10 +273,6 @@ exception = _logger.exception
 registry.error = error
 registry.exception = exception
 
-def stat(*args):
-    level = conf.supybot.log.statistics()
-    _logger.log(level, *args)
-
 setLevel = _logger.setLevel
 
 atexit.register(logging.shutdown)