Score Quotes - Page 23

• The clock is just as much a part of the game as the board and pieces, and losing because of time-trouble is no different to losing because of weak play -- it's still a zero on the score-sheet.

  John Nunn

  Zero, Games, Play

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• Certainly our job as an offense to try to score points and that's running the ball, throwing the ball, whatever it is. Somehow, someway we've got to try to score points to help our team win. That's where the focus is and it's pretty easy just to focus on that.

  Peyton Manning

  Running, Jobs, Team

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• If we want to change things, we must first change ourselves. If we want to play - if we want to change the world - we must first show up on the field to score.

  Paul Rusesabagina

  Play, World, Want

  "Oprah Talks to Paul Rusesabagina". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March 2006.

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• Good teams don't care about who scores. Good teams just care about scoring; they don't care who does it.

  George Karl

  Team, Care, Doe

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• Is Stephen Harper using the imagined fear of widespread security threats to score political points before the next election?

  Elizabeth May

  Political, Next, Election

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• Winning Forever is not about the final score; it's about competing and striving to be the best. If you are in this pursuit, then you're already winning.

  Pete Carroll

  Winning, Forever, Finals

  Pete Carroll, Yogi Roth, Kristoffer A. Garin (2011). “Win Forever: Live, Work, and Play Like a Champion”, p.39, Penguin

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• If you think back to the first sporting event you went to, you don't remember the score, you don't remember a home run, you don't remember a dunk. You remember who you were with. Were you with your mom, your dad, your brother, on a date?

  Mark Cuban

  Mom, Running, Brother

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• There is nothing less important in life than the score after one game of a two out of three game match.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Games, Two

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• When you watch Canadian kids [Box Lacrosse Players] score, when you see their skill level around the cage, you wonder to yourself, 'Jeez, are we teaching kids [in the U.S.] the wrong things?

  Dom Starsia

  Teaching, Kids, Player

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• The only reason these kids keep score in these games is for the parents and coaches satisfaction. Who cares? They're 10 years old.

  Peter Jacobsen

  Leadership, Sports, Kids

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• Scores of Iraqi exiles met in London to discuss ways to overthrow Saddam Hussein in a grand gathering dubbed the 'Iraqi Military Alliance Meeting.' Of course, these people are no longer Iraqi, they have no military, and there is no alliance. But they did have a meeting.

  Jon Stewart

  Military, People, Gathering

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• We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.

  George W. Bush

  Mistake, Book, Home

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• They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games. My biggest moment was winning the World Series because everyone in my town was able to feel he was a world champion.

  Johnny Bench

  Winning, Oklahoma, Games

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• Essentially, wines are fermented grape juice, so I'm trying to make the point that the wine world is about scores and marketing and kind of creating a scarce resource where they don't really exist.

  Joe Bastianich

  Wine, Creating, Marketing

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• Arthur Hughes is one of the pioneers of modern database marketing. His new book, Strategic Database Marketing, Third Edition, contains the wisdom of twenty years of database marketing experience from scores of companies throughout the US. I can heartily endorse Arthur's book for anyone who wants to know the state of the art in database marketing today.

  Lester Wunderman

  Art, Book, Years

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• For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work.

  James Wan

  Design, Scary, Musical

  "Film Interview: James Wan Talks The Filmmaking & Truth Behind ‘The Conjuring’, ‘Fast 7’ Plans". Interview with Peter Sciretta, www.slashfilm.com. July 19, 2013.

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• On-base percentage is great if you can score runs and do something with that on-base percentage. Clogging up the bases isn't that great to me. The problem we have to address more than anything is the home run problem.

  Dusty Baker

  Running, Home, Clogging Up

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• Bear in mind that parts of the score may be devoid of direct musical relevance.

  Cornelius Cardew

  Musical, Mind, May

  Cornelius Cardew, Richard Barrett (2006). “Cornelius Cardew: A Reader”

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• The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.

  Cornelius Cardew

  Jumping, Arbitrary, Authority

  Cornelius Cardew, Richard Barrett (2006). “Cornelius Cardew: A Reader”

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• A goalies job is to stop pucks,.... Well yeah, thats part of it, but you know what else is?... Youre trying to deliver a message to your team that things are OK back here. This end of the ice is pretty well cared for. You take it now and go. Go! Feel the freedom in order to feel that dynamic, creative, offensive player and go out and score....That was my job. And it was to try to deliver a feeling.

  Ken Dryden

  Jobs, Team, Player

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• We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Golf, Trying, Principles

  "Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa (p.14), 1991.

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• Without a goal, you can’t score.

  Casey Neistat

  Goal

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• When teachers are forced to teach to the test, students get bored and genuine education ceases, no matter what the test scores may say… The examination as a test of the past is of no value for increased learning ability. Like all external motivators, it can produce a short term effect, but examinations for the purpose of grading the past do not hook a student on learning for life.

  Myron Tribus

  Teacher, Past, Bored

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• I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me.

  Akon

  Next Steps, Watches, Causes

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• I really hate it when I can’t score runs from a ball.

  AB de Villiers

  Running, Hate, Balls

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