Score Quotes

• The score will take care of itself when you take care of the effort that precedes the score.

  John Wooden

  Effort, Care, Take Care

  John Wooden (2005). “Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion”, p.10, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Americans like a winner. If you lose, you're nothing. I'm going to win, though. It's good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We've met five times. He's won three times
  and we've drawn twice. But I'm a stronger player and a long match favors me.

  Bobby Fischer

  Winning, Player, Long

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• If you can't read the scoreboard. You don't know the score. If you don't know the score, you can't tell the winners from the losers.

  Warren Buffett

  Loser, Winner, Knows

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• Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Forgiveness, Scar

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• Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

  Donald Trump

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

  Donald Trump (2016). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.48, Random House

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• The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Motivational, Success, Football

  Lewis Grizzard (1990). “Gettin' it on: a down-home treasury”, BBS Publishing Corporation

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• Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.

  Robert Herrick

  Love, Heart, Kissing

  Robert Herrick (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.62, Taylor & Francis

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• There are no scores for good intention, it either happened or it didn't. Get to work.

  Maria Kang

  Good Intentions, Intention, Happened

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• If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

  Vince Lombardi

  Softball, Sports, Athlete

  "The Winner-Takes-All Society" by Chris Wallace, www.guernicamag.com. March 25, 2014.

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• In life the loser's score is always zero.

  W. H. Auden

  Zero, Losing, Loser

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• Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

  Thierry Henry

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a firm believer that if the other side scores first, you have to score twice to win.

  Howard Wilkinson

  Football, Winning, Firsts

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• A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders.

  Pele

  Team, Player, Thinking

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• Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score:
  Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.

  Robert Herrick

  Funny, Kissing, Giving

  Robert Herrick (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.62, Taylor & Francis

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• Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Change, Freedom, Father

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863

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• Messi scores a goal and celebrates. Cristiano scores a goal and poses like he's in a shampoo commercial.

  Diego Maradona

  Goal, Messi, Celebrate

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• On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

  H. Allen Smith

  Monday, Morning, 4th Of July

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• Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Games, Brilliant, Ask Me

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• ...let's talk about soccer scores. There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency and scoreless sports ties are boring.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Soccer, Sports, Ties

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• The individual who knows the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Perseverance, Self Esteem, Wrestling

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• Miracles happen quietly every day - in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.

  Mitch Albom

  Sea, Miracle, Rooms

  Mitch Albom (2013). “The First Phone Call From Heaven: A Novel”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• The interest rate you receive, however, is contingent on your credit score.

  Jean Chatzky

  Credit, Interest, Rate

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• How many miles to Babylon? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, there and back again. If your heels are nimble and light, You will get there by candle-light

  Mira Grant

  Light, Three, Nimble

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• Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind's pathetic and fruitless attempts at immortality.

  Sarah Silverman

  Women, Tombstone, Games

  Sarah Silverman (2010). “The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee”, p.137, Faber & Faber

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• The Big Valbowski is a lot like a Hakeem Olajuwan, either he's taking the hook shot from the outside or driving down the lane on the inside, he always scores!

  Val Venis

  Hook, Driving, Lanes

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