These score quotes will inspire you. Score the number of points, goals, runs, etc. achieved in a game or by a team or an individual.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging score quotes, score sayings, and score proverbs.
Best Score Quotes
- “The score will take care of itself when you take care of the effort that precedes the score.” ~ John Wooden
- “Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.” ~ Malcolm Forbes
- “Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.” ~ Donald Trump
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“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.” ~ Warren Buffett
- “The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.” ~ Lewis Grizzard
- “There are no scores for good intention, it either happened or it didn’t. Get to work.” ~ Maria Kang
- “Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let’s kiss afresh, as when we first begun.” ~ Robert Herrick
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“In life the loser’s score is always zero.” ~ W. H. Auden
- “If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?” ~ Vince Lombardi
- “Sometimes in football you have to score goals.” ~ Thierry Henry
- “I’m a firm believer that if the other side scores first, you have to score twice to win.” ~ Howard Wilkinson
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“Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score:
Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.” ~ Robert Herrick
- “A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, ‘He’s a great player’, because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders.” ~ Pele
- “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “Messi scores a goal and celebrates. Cristiano scores a goal and poses like he’s in a shampoo commercial.” ~ Diego Maradona
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“On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.” ~ H. Allen Smith
- “Please don’t ask me what the score is. I’m not even sure what the game is.” ~ Ashleigh Brilliant
- “The individual who knows the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
- “Miracles happen quietly every day – in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.” ~ Mitch Albom
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“The interest rate you receive, however, is contingent on your credit score.” ~ Jean Chatzky
- “Spirituality brings a class of men who lay exclusive claim to the special powers of the world. The immediate effect of this is a reaction towards materialism, which opens the door to scores of exclusive claims, until the time comes when not only all the spiritual powers of the race, but all its material powers and privileges are centred in the hands of a very few; and these few, standing on the necks of the masses of the people, want to rule them. Then society has to help itself, and materialism comes to the rescue.” ~ Swami Vivekananda
- “…let’s talk about soccer scores. There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency and scoreless sports ties are boring.” ~ P. J. O’Rourke
- “I went into broadcast journalism. I loved every class I took, I just got anxious because I came to the realization that you’re groomed in high school to get good SAT scores to get into a good college or else you’re done for.” ~ Chace Crawford
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“For three years, the ‘Meistersinger’ score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.” ~ Bryn Terfel
- “In a few days I’ll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod-always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults-rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “The album for Fiddler really took off. I think it was a combination of John Williams and the score. It was a very classy big album.” ~ Norman Jewison
- “I did apply to get a job, many times, but no one ever hired me. I think my hyperactive nature didn’t score me any points, and I remember when I went for interviews, I would ask all the questions – this probably confused the people who were hiring.” ~ Ronnie Apteker
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“How many miles to Babylon? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, there and back again. If your heels are nimble and light, You will get there by candle-light” ~ Mira Grant
- “Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind’s pathetic and fruitless attempts at immortality.” ~ Sarah Silverman , High score quotes
- “The Big Valbowski is a lot like a Hakeem Olajuwan, either he’s taking the hook shot from the outside or driving down the lane on the inside, he always scores!” ~ Val Venis
- “The Epson M-Tracer provides real-time feedback and immediate solutions that help golfers develop a more efficient and powerful swing. This information empowers golfers to improve their swing in an easy and intuitive manner, ultimately resulting in lower scores and more fun.” ~ David Leadbetter
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“Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.” ~ Stella Benson
- “all through my childhood, my father kept from me the knowledge that the daily papers printed daily box scores, allowing me to believe that without my personal renderings of all those games he missed while he was at work, he would be unable to follow our team in the only proper way a team should be followed, day by day, inning by inning. In other words, without me, his love for baseball would be forever incomplete.” ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
- “Men, as a general rule, shy away from therapy because there is no obvious way to keep score.” ~ Merrill Markoe
- “In the game of life, nothing is less important than the score at halftime.” ~ Andy Andrews
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“Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.” ~ Margaret Halsey
- “in Los Angeles … was the thinking-est crowd on earth: how to get ahead, how to mold a better body, how to have a better relationship, how to score, earn, fight, win, get published, be a star.” ~ Caroline B. Cooney
- “Even the new feminist research on sex-role socialization and sex differences has sometimes had the unfortunate consequence of creating a new set of stereotypes about what women feel and how women behave. Despite the large amount of overlap between the sexes in most research, the tendency to label and polarize and thus to exaggerate differences remains in much reporting of data, which may, for example, report the mean scores of male and female populations but not the degree of overlap.” ~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- “the writer must resist this temptation [to quote] and do his best with his own tools. It would be most convenient for us musicians if, arrived at a given emotional crisis in our work, we could simply stick in a few bars of Brahms or Schubert. Indeed many composers have no hesitation in so doing. But I have never heard the practice defended; possibly because that hideous symbol of petty larceny, the inverted comma, cannot well be worked into a musical score.” ~ Ethel Smyth
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“I like to work with young people, because young people haven’t had their dreams kicked out of them yet. Full of confidence, and imagination, and vision, and when they score that all gets empowered.” ~ Nicolas Cage
- “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.” ~ Carli Lloyd
- “Consumers who are thinking of opening one of these no-limit credit cards may want to think how deeply their scores will be affected.” ~ Craig Watts , Credit score quotes
- “We believed we could prepare our kids for a more competitive world. And today, our younger students have earned the highest math and reading scores on record. Our high school graduation rate has hit an all-time high. And more Americans finish college than ever before.” ~ Barack Obama
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“Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don’t go to the editing room, you don’t see how they cut, you don’t see how they score, you don’t see how they cast the rest of the movie.” ~ Albert Brooks
- “Three or four plays cause the momentum to shift. We turned it over and gave Baylor a cheap score.” ~ Bill Vaughan
- “Music was the one thing I could control. It was the one world that offered me freedom. When I played music, my nightmares ended. My family problems disappeared. I didnt have to search for answers. The answers lay no further than the bell of my trumpet and my scrawled, pencilled scores. Music made me full, strong, popular, self-reliant and cool.” ~ Quincy Jones
- “See it in terms of paint. We don’t learn subject matter, we learn paint. The musician can play any score that is set before him.” ~ Helen Van Wyk
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“If you don’t hit the target, you’re never gonna score” ~ Andy Gray
- “Julian sincerely abhorred the system of oriental despotism which Diocletian, Constantine, and the patient habits of four score years, had established in the empire. A motive of superstition prevented the execution of the design which Julian had frequently meditated, of relieving his head from the weight of a costly diadem; but he absolutely refused the title of Dominus or Lord, a word which was grown so familiar to the ears of the Romans, that they no longer remembered its servile and humiliating origin.” ~ Edward Gibbon
- “With a book called ‘Keeping Score,’ I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is the least understood war in the American cultural imagination. So I set out with the idea that Americans didn’t know much about the Korean War and that I was going to try to fix a tiny bit of that.” ~ Linda Sue Park , Keeping score quotes
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“George W. Bush loves golf because it’s like the election–low score wins.” ~ Jay Leno
- “I don’t look at records, that’s not why I’m playing the game. Goals, of course. Every player in my position wants to score goals. But most of all, trophies. My target is always to win trophies for Barcelona, and that will always be my motivation, to win things. Nothing feels better than doing that as a team.” ~ Lionel Messi
- “You need people who score goals. That’s how you win games” ~ Michael Owen
- “We’ve clearly seen that Tea Party Republicans are willing to take our economy hostage just to score political points, but I’m not willing to do that.” ~ Martin Heinrich
- “I heard Joby Talbot’s Hovercraft piece for orchestra and felt its immediate physical impact – visceral, unsettling, hungry and direct. These short five minutes became our keystone to unlocking a strangely seductive score that tensions the aggressive force of the White Stripes with the enigmatic beauty of Talbot’s own compositions.” ~ Wayne McGregor
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“You only get a second to score a goal in football. In Wolves’ case it was 20 seconds” ~ Alex McLeish
- “One thing I don’t want around me is a military intellectual. I don’t have to worry about you on that score.” ~ Henry A. Kissinger
- “It’s crazy to say that after three games [without a goal] I was in crisis. I do not care whether I score or not, what matters is that the team win and continue to do so.” ~ Lionel Messi
- “I like David Beckham just because of his lifestyle. He don’t ever need to score another goal again. How many times has he been on the cover of GQ?” ~ Wale
- “The night has always been my friend. When I go out I feel good, then I always score goals.” ~ Romario
- “The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.” ~ Virat Kohli
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“Scores of Congolese die each day unnecessarily due to the lack of access to healthcare and modern medicine.” ~ Dikembe Mutombo
- “(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch of science into our hands as we sit here in this room. Indeed, for the matter of that, an audience much smaller than the present one, an audience of some 5 or 6 score people, if each person in it could speak for his own generation, would carry us away to the black unknown of the human species, to days without a document or monument to tell their tale.” ~ William James
- “When I was a young boy I wanted to play for Newcastle United, I wanted to wear the number nine shirt and I wanted to score goals at St James’ Park. I’ve lived my dream and I realise how lucky I’ve been to have done that.” ~ Alan Shearer
- “There is no piece of music that could relate to anything else but itself and its world. It is truly an independent. The one thing coplanar with music is the compositional aspect, the fact that you are composing something. Architecture is essentially a score, and what happens with it depends on the people who play it, enjoy it, use it, or hate it.” ~ Rafael Vinoly
