Score Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• The score a player reports on any hole should always be regarded as his opening offer.

  Tom Mulligan

  Golf, Player, Holes

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• The USGA doesn't want to recognize the fact that today's players are better than ever. They seem willing to do anything to prevent us from shooting scores that would make us appear better than the great names of the past.

  Hale Irwin

  Golf, Past, Player

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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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• Employees who report receiving recognition and praise within the last seven days show increased productivity, get higher scores from customers, and have better safety records. They're just more engaged at work.

  Tom Rath

  Safety, Records, Getting High

  "Be Nice: It's Good for Business". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. August 2004.

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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 few people have privately voiced fears that on coming back to office I shall go after them. These fears are groundless. There will be no paying off old scores. The past is prologue.

  Muhammadu Buhari

  Past, Office, People

  Muhammadu Buhari’s Inaugural speech, www.vanguardngr.com. May 29, 2015.

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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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• That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed. But it sometimes happens that these obtrusive characters are on such excellent terms with themselves that they put down this very politeness to the score of their own great merits and high pretensions, meeting the coldness of our reserve with a ridiculous condescension of familiarity, in order to set us at ease with ourselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Distance, Character, Order

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.79

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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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• Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others.

  Betty Rollin

  Tears, May, Disease

  Betty Rollin (2008). “Last Wish”, p.122, PublicAffairs

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• I can't ask the offense to score slower.

  Pete Carroll

  Nfl, Offense, Asks

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• My job is to play well offensively and help my team score points. So I feel very responsible every time we lose a game.

  Peyton Manning

  Jobs, Team, Games

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• Going out on the field frantic isn't going to help you score points. You have to try to lead your team.

  Colin Kaepernick

  Team, Nfl, Trying

  "Kaepernick on the 49ers’ comeback: 'Frantic isn’t going to help you score points; you have to try to lead your team'". Interview with Tim Kawakami, blogs.mercurynews.com. January 20, 2013.

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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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• The music is notated first, the text follows. I might have to wait until the right kind of text or form arises. I often see the poems as “scores.”

  Anne Waldman

  Waiting, Might, Firsts

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.

  Drew Carey

  Marine, Perfect, Tests

  Interview with Mary Buckheit, proxy.espn.com. September 9, 2002.

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