Score Quotes - Page 18

• If England are going to win this match, they're going to have to score a goal.

  Jimmy Hill

  Winning, Goal, Stupidity

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• I think there's a vast difference between the Big12 and some of the other major conferences. I think it is tougher to score in this conference, just because of the emphasis on defense.

  Eddie Sutton

  Thinking, Differences, Defense

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• Popularity doesn't bother me. It attests to the affection and comprehension of the public. The important thing is to retain the pioneer spirit. I profoundly love the profession, and I work on each film as if it were the first - and the last. Giving the best of myself. Many of the 'greats' ask their arranger to write their scores for them. Me, I write all alone, from the first note to the last. All.

  Ennio Morricone

  Writing, Giving, Important

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• They're coming out of high school exhausted. The pressure in high school is killing these kids. By the time they get to college, they have been fighting for three or four years to get the perfect SAT scores and get into A.P. classes.

  Debora Spar

  School, Kids, Fighting

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• I like Pique a lot. He has class. He knows how to defend and also how to score. He is perfect in a duo with Carles Puyol.

  Paolo Maldini

  Class, Perfect, Duos

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• Let me tell you what's fun in golf - low scores. The manufacturers have tricked people into believing that distance is everything. There is no place on the scorecard that says you need to hit it 350 yards.

  Hal Sutton

  Fun, Distance, Believe

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• Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score.

  Earl Weaver

  Failing, Cigarette, Opposition

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• If The Muppet Show had a basketball team, the score would always be Frog 99, Chaos 98.

  Jerry Juhl

  Basketball, Team, Frogs

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• "Cracking the Ice" scores the literary equivalent of a hat-trick: funny, harrowing and finally, heartfelt. This book is a winner.

  Gregory Neri

  Book, Ice, Heartfelt

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• You have to write a good score that you feel good about. At least, you're supposed to. But, if the director hates it, it ain't going to be in the movie!

  Danny Elfman

  Hate, Writing, Feel Good

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• He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing.

  Alan Hansen

  Missing You, Worry, Missing

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• President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner have agreed to play a round of golf together. Imagine the two of them at the end of that golf game? Boehner will be crying over his score and Obama will be giving three explanations as to why his score is actually better than it appears.

  Jay Leno

  Golf, Games, Play

  "Economy Panel". "This Week", abcnews.go.com. June 12, 2011.

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• My oldest brother and my middle brother would always beat me up and take the ball from me. I used to cry a lot, so I used to come in here and get my dad. He used to be on my team, so he used to hold them down and let me score the basket.

  Gary Payton

  Brother, Dad, Team

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• We grew up quickly, surrounded by guys eighteen and older, in their prime. They lived to surf, drink, raise hell and score heavily with women. I saw these guys going up and down the coast on surf trips, drinking and bagging girls, and all I could think of was 'What a neat life!'

  Greg Noll

  Girl, Drinking, Thinking

  Greg Noll, Andrea Gabbard (1989). “Da Bull: Life Over the Edge”, p.17, North Atlantic Books

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• Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power and authority and prestige; sadism thinly disguised as necessary discipline; a constant 'paying off of old scores'; and insistence on the letter rather than the spirit of ordinances.

  Paul Fussell

  Strong, Military, Discipline

  "Private Ryan was a hero, but there were bums, too" by Stephen Ambrose, www.cnn.com. August 5, 1998.

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• Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.

  Sam Walton

  Goal, Competition, Enough

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.315, Bantam

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• Most of the verses written about praise in God’s Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores of other difficult situations.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Crush, Difficult Situations, People

  Joni Eareckson Tada (1993). “A Quiet Place in a Crazy World: Drawing Near to God Through Prayer and Praise”, Multnomah

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• Though they control scores of industrial, commercial, mining and tourist corporations, not one bears the name Rothschild. Being private partnerships, the family houses never need to, and never do, publish a single public balance sheet, or any other report of their financial condition.

  Frederic Morton

  Names, House, Balance

  Frederic Morton (2014). “The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait”, p.18, Diversion Books

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• Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if youve got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.

  Anne Dudley

  Way, Lasts, Helping

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• I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging.

  Danny Elfman

  Knowing, Challenges, Would Be

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• Bottom Line: It's better to give before you receive. And never keep score. If your interactions are ruled by generosity, your rewards will follow suit.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Generosity, Giving, Lines

  Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.33, Crown Business

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• Look at the score at the end of the #game.

  Ed Slott

  Games, Looks, Ends

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• There is nothing wrong with revenge. The wrong has already been done, or there would be no need to even the score.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Revenge, Would Be, Needs

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• Never compare one student's test score to another's. Always measure a child's progress against her past performance. There will always be a better reader, mathematician, or baseball player. Our goal is to help each student become as special as she can be as an individual--not to be more special than the kid sitting next to her.

  Rafe Esquith

  Baseball, Children, Kids

  Rafe Esquith (2007). “Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56”, p.80, Penguin

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• I don't think baseball could survive without all the statistical appurtenances involved in calculating pitching, hitting and fielding percentages. Some people could do without the games as long as they got the box scores.

  John M. Culkin

  Baseball, Thinking, Games

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