Basketball is a game of streaks. Sometimes a guy will be cold for a month and then get hot for a month.
Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and shutouts, streaks and slumps.
If there is a streak of ham anywhere in an actor, Shakespeare will bring it out.
If you miss 10 in a row, you have to believe the next 10 are going to fall for you.
I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too.
Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
When I was at my peak, I would go into streaks where I felt like it was almost magic, that I could knock down the pin from anywhere with my irons.
She was developing what Mom called a bit of a sarcastic streak.
The game of basketball is full of runs.
The chemtrails can cause all these things. Autism. It's not just vaccines that have gone wrong. The chemtrails that are causing all this that you see flying above you. You've seen 'em, folks, streaks. Usually behind airplanes. That's why they're called chemtrails. Contrails. You think they're contrails, but they're actually very insidious things, chemtrails.
The windows need washing.
She arrived in Washington to take her place in the Senate. After looking about, she observed:
Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.
When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it.
I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.
Goals come in bunches. When you're hot, things go in. Then there will be times where you go through a span where you have about 20 games without a goal and it's just how it is.
I'm not saying I'd already done anything, actually, but I'd passed my experimental streak.
The streak has become my identity; it's who I've become.
Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.” “Sir?” “It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority.” “Sir?” “That’s practically zen.
I was always a player who has ups and downs. I could play unbelievable, and I could lose to someone.
There's no such thing as a player who scores in every single game.
I didn't have this rebellious streak in me. To me, I'm a product of circumstance.
I am not a redhead. I have never been and am still not. Well, just a little... but I was blond as a kid and then mousy brown. As I got older... it came up. I've got a lot of red in my hair, but I'm not a ginge.
Football, for me, is the most ever-changing sport in the world, because you can go seven games in a row, scoring in all of them; then, you don't score for two games, and already you're doing badly. You're in crisis.
I think average players are able to play well now and again, or they'll play very, very well. Good players or great players, nine times out of ten, they have good games.
Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.