Game Outcomes Quotes

There's good times and bad times. That's part of the coaching. You live with the ups and downs of it but at the end, it's about not only winning games, it's about developing men.

Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.

At the end of the day, you have 82 games. You're going to win some division games, and you're going to lose some division games.

You cannot lose games in the NFL, and still win

I think there's more of opportunity to win games in the National League than the American League because there are more decisions to make.

I don't want to be a quarterback that has all these stats but didn't win a lot of games.

The only meaningful statistic is number of games won.

You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it.

The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.

The worst team in baseball's history won only 55 games. The best team ever won 110 out of 160, so you're virtually guaranteed to win 1/3 of the time and lose 1/3 of the time. The difference is the 1/3 in the middle. You don't know what bucket the game you're playing falls into, so if you're smart, you'll fight like everything for all of them.

Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose.

If you just look at the numbers, you pretty much have to get 10 wins to get into the playoffs, sometimes more than that.

There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them.

I have my goals, I have some things I want to achieve next basketball season individually. But the number one thing is always winning games. If you win games then everything else will take care of itself. You know nobody wants to see you guys score 30 and then lose every game.

Over the course of a season, you'll get goals that are good disallowed and you'll get disallowed goals that are good.

My old coach used to say two points was two points.

I'm probably always guilty for rooting for a long series. Not either side - I don't really care who wins the game, but it makes for more compelling TV the more games you go deeper into a series.

I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.

We don't sell wins or losses. The one thing you can't control in sports is which games you are going to win or which games you are going to lose. But what I could control was the experience the fans have.

I think I played in Lambeau maybe 14, 15 times. I've played there a lot of times. It's in the teens, double digit. I've had success on that field, won and lost.

During the season, there are all types of games - ones where you deserve more than you get and ones where you get more than you deserve.

It's hard to win with rookie quarterbacks, as I know.

As a coach, we are not magicians; we work with the players and look to improve them and give them every opportunity, but if you are not creating or scoring goals over a consistent period of time, it is difficult for you as a coach.

The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.

You rarely see any blowout games.