Scorekeeping Quotes

It's easy to keep score at a football game because it's just how many times you get the ball over the goal. But, when you ask an audience to tell us how many times the invisible ball got over the invisible goal, and they go, "Well, it was 46," they're just making it up. So, if you're listening to that, as though you're actually listening to the score of a football game, you're misleading yourself.

A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.

I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

I don't judge my performance on how many assists I have or how many points I have.

You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.

I played softball for three years.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

The way skateboarding contests were in the past was like going to a basketball game and being told at the end of the game what the score was and who won. Think about how unengaging that would be if you didn't know who was ahead or if it was a close game.

I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.

I think it's pretty important that you learn how to keep your own scoreboard and how to be focused on what truly matters over the long term.

I'm a keep-score guy; I always have been.

Sometimes I need to look at the scoreboard to figure out whether I'm batting hundred-plus or whether I am on zero.

The minute you start keeping score, you're destroying the relationship.

I like making money, but it's a scorecard. I'm not driven by that.

In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning... In life the loser's score is always zero.

You could be winning and feel like you're losing because the scorecard you're using is unfair.

Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore,' shoot six, and write down five.

There should be a new way to record standings in this league; one column for wins, one for losses and one for gifts.

I'm hearing in youth sports where you're not allowed to post scores of games online; everybody's gotta get a trophy. I mean, that's ridiculous. If you're a winner, you're a winner and you get a trophy. If you got second place, you don't get anything.

I guess I could be happy in anything where you feel like there's a scoreboard.

Men, as a general rule, shy away from therapy because there is no obvious way to keep score.

We're all constantly keeping score. You can't help it. But trying to pit ourselves against other people in some measurable way is largely a waste of time.

Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

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.

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.