Binary Outcome Quotes

When you're hot your hot, when you're not your not.

When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

If I win I can't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead.

If you win, you're heroes. But if you don't, then you're losers. That might sound harsh, but that's the way it is.

I win or I die.

Laughter is binary: It either happens or it doesn't. As each joke arrives in the course of a film, the cavernous space of the theater is either filled with joy and laughter or with the quiet of cringing embarrassment. Every time you step to the plate to make a joke, you're going to experience one or the other.

You're either good at boxing, or you're not.

Either it works or it doesn't.

A film is sort of binary - it either works or it doesn't work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.

To fail at all is to fail utterly.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

In math, you're either right or you're wrong.

In our sport, there's only two people, so if you're not winning, then you're losing.

It’s like having to make a choice: a blessing or a curse. The one thing you can’t do is choose neither.

Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America and you come back, fail or succeed, but it doesn't work like that.

I expect either total success or total failure. That's my lot in life.

The sprint is sometimes like a toss of a coin. Sometimes it's heads, and sometimes it's tails.

And either victory, or else a grave.

There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing.

You either entertain an audience or you don't.

I've seldom met somebody who is merely satisfied working alongside siblings. You typically have a binary outcome. They either are miserable and everyone starts to hate each other, which is an unfortunate outcome that we see too often, or it is really incredible, and there's tremendous energy and mutual respect, and the parties work really well together. I've found that the middle road typically doesn't happen.

One of the nice things about math and science is it’s obvious, you get the answer or you don’t get the answer.