Score Quotes - Page 25

• They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Education, College, Trying

  Song: Pencil-thin mustache, 1974

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• If you don't score, and you have chances, you are disappointed.

  Wayne Rooney

  Chance, Disappointed, Ifs

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• Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.

  Wayne Rooney

  Goal, Said, Feels

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• To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn't the score that interested me, it was the struggle.

  Steve Sabol

  Football, Struggle, Kids

  "The "I Am" Q&A". CNBC Interview, www.cnbc.com. June 24, 2012.

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• I think the scores for Olympic gymnastics are affected by what countries the judge and the gymnast are from. That's wrong. That type of political pandering isn't meant for gymnastic Olympic events. It's meant for the Supreme Court.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Country, Gymnastics

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• There is no truth in the idea that the person who hits the most balls will become the best golfer. Golf is a bizarre sport. You can work for years on your game, without making any improvement in your score.

  Fred Couples

  Sports, Golf, Years

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• I know how to choke. Given even a splinter-thin opportunity to let my side down and destroy my own score, I will seize it. Not only does ice water not run through my veins, but what runs there has a boiling point lower than body temperature.

  John Updike

  Running, Golf, Opportunity

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• As every golfer knows, no one ever lost his mind over one shot. It is rather the gradual process of shot after shot watching your score go to tatters - knowing that you have found a different way to bogey each hole.

  Thomas Boswell

  Golf, Knowing, Mind

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• I painted my toenails before Dennis Rodman. One time at training camp, I stubbed my toe and the nail came loose. My mom gave me some toenail hardener, and I painted over it. I scored 40-something points that night, so it became a ritual. Paint my toenails, score 40 points.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Mom, Night

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• The widespread belief among politicians and pundits is that high test scores are everything. I strongly disagree. What matters most is character. Working hard, treating others with respect and honesty-those are the keys to success.

  Hal Urban

  Honesty, Character, What Matters

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• Tolerance does not...do anything, embrace anyone, champion any issue. It wipes the notes off the score of life and replaces them with one long bar of rest. It does not attack error, it does not champion truth, it does not hate evil, it does not love good.

  Walter Farrell

  Hate, Errors, Issues

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• In an age in which we can project an image and score that image based on immediate Facebook and Twitter feedback, thus making a video game of life and a false-reality composed of lies, what gets lost is a joyful obsession with the work we create from the purest of motives, a sheer joy in the act of creation itself that causes us to lose ourselves in something else, and in a way die to ourselves over the absolute love of a thing we are breathing into life.

  Donald Miller

  Lying, Reality, Breathing

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• A gentleman, is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle--men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant and elevated; who can look the world honestly in the face, with an equal manly sympathy for the great and the small? We all know a hundred whose coats are well made, and a score who have excellent manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let us take a little scrap of paper, and each make out his list.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Thinking, Circles

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• In a tournament, even though there are team scores, it's calculated and it's a lot more individual. There is more honor to say you're not just better than the opposing schools' wrestler, you're the best wrestler in your weight class. Plus there are lot more awards to win in a tournament.

  Bill Vaughan

  Team, School, Winning

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• Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would dearly like to use their fingers and toes for some activity more enthralling than counting. They have been counting for so long. But the peculiar problem of the new math is that every time we stop adding, somebody starts subtracting. At the very least (the advanced students will understand this) the rate of increase slows. ... The minority members of any group or profession have two answers: They can keep score or they can lose.

  Ellen Goodman

  Math, Two, Long

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• Score a touchdown, kiss your tattoo. Kaepernicking!

  Colin Kaepernick

  Tattoo, Kissing, Nfl

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• We'll do whatever it takes to score as many points as we can-and definitely one more point than the opponent.

  Russell Wilson

  Nfl, Opponents, Whatever It Takes

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• When the desire is born, right away you start counting yourselves a failure, because you've got this desire that hasn't been satisfied. Know that you never get it done! And since you never get it done, it's time to stop being unhappy about what's undone, because most of it is undone! You are an eternal being. Most of it is undone. Instead of taking score about what's been achieved - we want you to start feeling anticipation about what is still to arrive.

  Esther Hicks

  Feelings, Unhappy, Desire

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• For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap, easy to score, instantly gratifying, and highly addictive.

  Arianna Huffington

  Business, Hot, Cracks

  Arianna Huffington (2009). “Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America”, p.59, Crown

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• I'm the world's worst bearer of grudges. I'm sure I'll be bearing grudges and paying off old scores on my death-bed.

  Glenda Jackson

  Bed, World, Resentment

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• We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.

  Neville Cardus

  Men, Years, Imagination

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• How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?

  Daniel Dennett

  Music, Reading, Imagination

  Daniel C. Dennett (2017). “Consciousness Explained”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• Work out what is truly important to you. Research shows people with consistently high happiness scores prioritise their life according to the things they value. They've worked out what is most important to them and don't allow themselves to get sidetracked.

  Robert Holden

  Work Out, People, Important

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• The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.

  Ernst Mayr

  Important, Facts, Theory

  Ernst Mayr (1982). “The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance”, p.29, Harvard University Press

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• To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Effort, Shadow, Wrecks

  What It Means to be Colored in Capital of the U.S., delivered 10 October 1906, United Women's Club, Washington, D.C.

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