Narrow Margin Quotes

John F. Kennedy went to bed at 3:30 in the morning on November 9, 1960, uncertain whether he had defeated Richard Nixon for the presidency. He thought he had won, but six states hung in the balance, and after months of exhaustive campaigning, he was too tired to stay awake any longer.

In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.

The margin between success and drama is fractional.

In my primary, I only won by 23 votes in that one, so every vote really does count, and I want to make sure I get as many as I possibly can.

It's difficult to make predictions in the Premier League, as unpredictable things can happen, and I know that well: I won the title in a crazy way and lost one unexpectedly.

Every game in this league is close, and it's going to come down to making plays at the end.

The margin for error in the Champions League is tiny.

It's no disgrace to play against the world's champions and lose by one service break in the last two sets.

We're the best team in baseball, but not by much.

It took two years for the thirteen states to ratify The Constitution, and the last state to ratify it did so by a mere two votes [36-34].)

You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.

You can be a two-pitch guy and be successful, but your room for error is very small.

To come to somebody's hometown and beat them on a split decision, that's saying something.

If we win 1-0, I don't care if the goalkeeper scores.

That's the drama of our sport. Our margin of error is so small that anything can happen.

It could potentially be a very competitive race.

I guess 35 years ago, I thought we had more of a democracy than we actually do. Majority support doesn't help unless the majority is active and votes - but the opposition minority votes a much greater proportion, so we often lose by a narrow margin.

The margin between winning and losing is slim.

It's a slim margin of error in this league.

That's why everybody loves to tune in and watch these fights, because at any given moment, any given fight, any given fighters, anything can happen. A fighter could win nine out of 10 times, but there's always that one time.

On 18 you've got to drive it up a gnat's ass.

It doesn't take much to be at the top or the bottom in a position such as mine.

We've definitely been in a few positions where it's come down to the end of the race and we've been able to close the deal, and we've definitely been in position where we've lost a few.

I hate to see the entire issue decided on as narrow a base, but ... the size of the vote is more important than the arguments that are made.

Watching myself fight, I realize the line between success and failure is so narrow, it's scary.