Score Quotes - Page 19

• Spurts don't count. The final score makes no mention of a splendid start if the finish proves that you were an also ran.

  Herbert Kaufman

  Achievement, Finals, Splendid

  Herbert Kaufman (1910). “The Winning Fight”

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• I do not let a bad score ruin my enjoyment for golf.

  Darrell Royal

  Golf, Ruins, Enjoyment

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• The thing I learned when I was playing was that your best way of winning was to make it difficult for the other team to score in the last three innings.

  Tony La Russa

  Motivational, Success, Sports

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• Who cares who gets the last shot or scores the most points? Who cares who gets the credit? If we win, we're all winners.

  Paul Pierce

  Winning, Who Cares, Credit

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• Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.

  Wendell Phillips

  Character, Men, Years

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• People attack Scientology, I never forget it, always even the score. People attack auditors, or staff, or organisations, or me. I never forget until the slate is clear.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  People, Auditors, Never Forget

  "Manual Of Justice". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, www.xenu.net. 1959.

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• Ever since I left Greece more than two decades ago, it has been my dream to return and perform at the Acropolis. This project took more than a year and a half to plan and accomplish, and I would like to thank my band and crew and the scores of people involved in helping my dream become a reality.

  Yanni

  Dream, Reality, Years

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• The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages capital accumulation and distorts, unbalances, and shrinks production.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Real, Balance, Taxation

  "The Wisdom of Henry Hazlitt".

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• It (a baseball box score) doesn't tell how big you are, what church you attend, what color you are, or how your father voted in the last election. It just tells what kind of baseball player you were on that particular day.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Father, Player

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• Nobody ever tells me to give them a pass or anything. My job is to score goals, and if I don't shoot the puck, I can't score goals.

  Alexander Ovechkin

  Jobs, Giving, Goal

  "Ovie speaks out on Crosby, Caps' Cup hopes and that $124M deal". Interview with David Amber, sports.espn.go.com. February 7, 2008.

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• It's best being a striker. If you miss five then score the winner, you're a hero. The goalkeeper can play a blinder, then let one in… and he's a villain.

  Ian Rush

  Soccer, Football, Hero

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• I learned a long time ago that at the end of the day, the only stat that counts is points, The other ones are significant, but I'd much rather have the right score on the board. At the end of the day, that's what we're worried about.

  Kirk Ferentz

  Long, The End Of The Day, Boards

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• I'm not saying that there weren't other inherent problems with the score that couldn't have been overcome with a bit of remixing, but why did they ask me to do it, and why did Griffin ask me to do it this way, for a film that had nothing to do with American vernacular?

  Michael Nyman

  Overcoming, Way, Problem

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• There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else's work is motivating you.

  Michael Nyman

  Writing, Orchestra, Want

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• The sign of a great player is not how much he scores, but how much he lifts his teammates performance

  Red Holzman

  Player, Teammate, Performances

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• Football became my obvious metaphor as it does for many, and I began to equate this as being 'halftime' in my life. As I reflected on my professional life I realized how much time I had spent trying to make first downs and score touchdowns. My focus had now changed into trying to be more about people and serving others.

  Marc Trestman

  Football, People, Focus

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• Focusing on the score attaches you to the result. Focusing on the process lets you access your greatest skill and increases your fun.

  John Douillard

  Fun, Skills, Increase

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• The dreams are that you're gonna have a great series and win. The nightmares are that you're gonna let the winning run score on a ground ball through your legs. Those things happen, you know. I think a lot of it is just fate.

  Bill Buckner

  Running, Dream, Fate

  Interview with Don Shane (October 6, 1986), as quoted in "What Bill Buckner Said 19 Days Before Game Six of the '86 World Series" by Jason English, mentalfloss.com. October 25, 2011.

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• The most successful people are those who take pride in their work, pride in their family It is great to attain wealth, but money is really just one way - and hardly the best way - to keep score.

  Kemmons Wilson

  Pride, Successful, People

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• I played with Joey Mullen back in Salt Lake City before he got called up to St. Louis. He was the first player ever to score 20 goals in the American League and 20 in the NHL. I've kept in contact with him and he's a great guy.

  Alain Vigneault

  Player, Lakes, Nhl

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• For Burnley to win they are going to have to score.

  Chris Kamara

  Winning

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• All this cuddling and kissing on stage these days, well it's all right in football when someone scores a goal, but not when you're playing darts.

  Eric Bristow

  Football, Kissing, Cuddling

  "Small Talk: Eric Bristow" by Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2003.

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• A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a single year. ... That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away.

  Bill Gates

  Teacher, Motivation, Inspiration

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• The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

  Nick Hornby

  Football, Disappointment, Fans

  Nick Hornby (2005). “Fever Pitch”, p.14, Penguin UK

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• When you have finished analyzing all the variations and gone along all the branches of the tree of analysis you must first of all write the move down on your score sheet, before you play it.

  Alexander Kotov

  Moving, Writing, Play

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