Scoring System Quotes

You can't count a man out because one record went different direction. You gotta count the things that scored, not the misses.

I think in Toronto my job was to score just based on the system that we had. We played a lot of iso basketball - a lot of one-on-one basketball.

I used to play badminton in winter.

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.

I prefer to win a game and lose other 2 rather than draw 3 games. Both cases you get 3 points.

Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.

I don't rate them, I just hit them.

The negative is the score, and the print the performance.

In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.

Relatively, a very small percentage of betting takes place on hockey and even baseball because of the nature of the game and the scoring.

A rough should have high grass. When you go bowling they don't give you anything for landing in the gutter, do they?

I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.

Different refs judge fights differently.

I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.

I think gymnastics was associated with the 10. I thought that belonged to the sport, and somehow we gave it way.

I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.

If anything, make a 50-yard field goal worth four points instead of three.

But here's the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can't. I can't even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don't get it.

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

It's a very complex sport, so judging is going to be very complex, too. And not everyone is going to agree all the time on who wins a fight.

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

Everyone must know by now that the aim of Scrabble is to gain the moral high ground, the loser being the first player to slam the board shut and upset all the letters over the floor.

I like Georges. I'm a fan of Georges St-Pierre. I appreciate everything he does, and how he does everything to win, and it meets the scoring criteria that sucks.

When the rules of judging skating in international competition changed in 2004 with the goal of making judging more transparent, one of the consequences was the rewarding of skaters who attempt more challenging technical elements in the pursuit of ever more points.

There's no praise for scoring a fight right, just criticism for one you get wrong.