Scoreboard Quotations

It doesn't matter what the scoreboard says. I'm always having fun, talking to other guys. They even come to first base and ask me about hitting. I try to help them out as much as I can in the 30 seconds before the pitcher throws the next pitch. That's me. I don't think I will ever change that.

Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people.

I played in football games where you walk off the field and the scoreboard didn't end up the way you wanted. But you knew that you really did give it all. And the other team was too strong.

If we get our tactical game right, are able to dominate possession, make a high percentage of tackles, keep chasing play, finish our opportunities and, most importantly, keep the scoreboard ticking over and get a lead built, we'll be fine.

If we go out there and play hard. The scoreboard will take care of itself.

When I looked at the scoreboard and he was 2-under through four holes, I knew the only person who had a chance to catch him was Chad, maybe.

Obviously, we weren't happy with the way the game was going. Emotions get going when you look at the scoreboard and you're losing in the Stanley Cup Finals. And that's what happens.

My dad was a diehard fan, ... We had season tickets from when I was about 5 to about 12 years old. I used to go to a couple of games a year. I still remember where the seats were, too, 15-yard line, on the scoreboard side, under the awning. So if it rained or whatever, we were always underneath.

Politics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney's office leading.

I don't have an answer. Little mistakes give up big plays. You have to finish. You have to have more points on the scoreboard than the other team.

Leah has been the epitome of the most selfless teammate you can have. She cares more about the scoreboard and how we're doing as a team. You can't replace her.

There are too many people out there like that -- and what's on the scoreboard is important -- but there is a lot more to football.

Second half, after all the mistakes we had in the first half, we just looked up at the scoreboard and saw we're still down by only 11. Coach told us in the second half to play hard, leave it all on the line. That's what we did. We did what we could to come back, but it didn't happen for us.

We won't have to look at the scoreboard anymore, and we will have a good series, have some fun and play good baseball.

When they started to go on their runs, we started looking for someone else to make a play. We started scoreboard watching a little bit and the difference in the game was when they cut it to two, we attacked them the next three possessions and got lay-ups.

I was looking at the scoreboard all night, ... You can really get mesmerized by that thing. It goes on and the fireworks continue to go off (after each score). I thought at one point they might run out of fireworks. That's a big number and, basically, I'm numb at this point.

I was looking at the scoreboard a lot. I knew I had the no-hitter, but I think it's all mental. I was just thinking about getting everyone out.

Guys like that, they just don't get rattled. They always think they can win the game no matter what the scoreboard is telling them. They have that competitiveness. You can't give them the chance.

Four points out of that...we've got to be a little bit happy. We didn't make it easy for ourselves. When you get behind on the scoreboard the thing is not to panic and we held together and believed to could do it.

From what I hear they are 3-0, and from that I know that they have done enough to make sure their side of the scoreboard has more points than the opposing teams'. I hope they continue to win football games for the sake of the university, players and the coaching staff.

From my perspective, knowing what we had to do and how it was supposed to go, I don't see any glitches. Obviously, the clocks and scoreboard were different and the music playing was a bit of a distraction. I'm sure I'll get some e-mails and phone calls tomorrow and I'll talk with the coaches, and if it makes sense to do it again, we'll do it again.

I feel really good right now. Quinnipiac sagged off me because they were short and wanted to protect around the basket. So I took a lot of jumpers and they fell. Whenever I was open, I made the best of it. At one point, I looked at the scoreboard and saw 20 points by my No. 11. That put a big smile on my face.

I don?t remember the last time that happened. I looked up at the scoreboard and we had 81 points and were never in the game. That is a tribute to how well they played.

I don't want our kids playing the scoreboard because, quite frankly, we won't always be here at the Civic Center. In the second half we matched baskets and we won by five. I don't think we should do that. We should take more pride in what we're doing.

If I'm not pitching, I'm staring at it the whole time. We definitely have a reason to be scoreboard watching.

I hate having to watch the scoreboard and depend on other teams to lose. This time we can do something about it, and I'm looking forward to that.

But afterward, I looked at the scoreboard in total wonderment.

Basically we are just trying to get better communication as doubles teams and definitely work on getting more consistent on our serves and be able to come in and play some volleys at the net. Our ground strokes aren't looking too bad and the rest of the game is okay. But we are missing some opportunities that are showing up on the scoreboard for us.

What we'd want to eventually do, if we stay in the coliseum, is replace all the seats, have a new scoreboard and do the things to update it.

I look up at the scoreboard and there are signs, 'Let's Go Giants'. The referees, when they flipped the coin, they asked us if we wanted heads or tails. They had no idea who the home team was and who was away. The crowd noise we had to deal with, we never had to do a silent count at home.

I looked up at the scoreboard and we had 81 points and we were never in the game.

I looked up at the scoreboard at halftime and we were tied. The next time I looked up, we were up by 20. We were on fire. Our shots started falling and everything started falling into place.

We may have lost on the scoreboard but given the conditions and the quality of our opponents, we felt we deserved the win.

We look forward to providing our great fans a scoreboard that actually has the score on it.

We looked at the scoreboard and knew we had to pick it up. We took (their run) and then kind of bounced back.

We looked at the scoreboard and saw (WSU) had 30 something points. We had to pick up our defense. We switched things around and it started working for us.

Well, you don't have to look at the scoreboard anymore.

Going into the fourth quarter I said forget the scoreboard, the scoreboard means nothing now, and if I catch you looking at it I'll pull you out. Now it's about playing for pride and playing hard and that's what we got to do. We got six games left, and we have to attack each of those games and prove to ourselves that we can do it and that's our job now.

He noticed the logo on the scoreboard in the boys' gym was in bad shape, so he painted it.

I thought Nate settled in after that goal and was OK. But it's another one of those games that you walk away from and the scoreboard says 4-0, and you know it's closer than that. It's been the story of our season.

I think I was watching it with Vijay. I was watching the scoreboard from the first hole, so I knew.

I was just thinking about getting points on the scoreboard for my team. I heard the crowd, so I figured it had to be OK.

Out of those eight looks, I don't think many of them were forced shots. The biggest thing was that they weren't falling and, to be honest, I was looking up at the scoreboard and thinking we could be down a lot more.

Our scoreboard is blown down, and our lights have to be checked out,

Our team is extremely young and we're so thin in depth. However, I'm proud of their effort tonight. If you take away a handful of plays, the scoreboard would have read something else.

I think he's a lot more ready offensively than he was, but I still get on him about defensive lapses. There's a little bit Riverboat Gambler, which makes him effective offensively so you don't want to squash that too much. But you try to make him understand how the scoreboard works and the clock and how you have to make smart plays.

It doesn't change your intensity or your approach or your preparation. But it does have you looking at the scoreboard a lot more often.

I think the ownership is happy and the fans seemed to enjoy themselves. I think the scoreboard reflected that.

It goes back to the old scoreboard the stadium used to have when I was a kid. Someone ran out between innings and hung numbers.

I think we just looked at the scoreboard and knew we had to step it up a little bit. One thing led to another, and everybody kind of fed off of one another.

I thought we played a pretty good hockey game tonight. I thought we were the better team. We were outplaying them halfway through the game, and you look up at the scoreboard and it's 3-0 (for New York).

I think it sets the tone for the whole team. Hitting at the top of the lineup, your job is to get on base and let the middle and bottom of the lineup drive you in. If we can accomplish that, it sets the tone for the game. And if you get on the scoreboard first, it helps a lot.

I thought we looked at the scoreboard and acted like we may be able to beat the Miami Heat. But I don't know if we, at the end, believed we could beat them.

Yeah, now we're on the scoreboard watching. We're realizing there's probably about four or five teams that are going to keep flip-flopping from here right on up to the end of the regular season. For us, you certainly watch that but the one thing we want to make sure is that we're concentrating on what this team does.

We were just playing our game early. We're starting to do that more often. We were covering on defense, making stops. But there's something in every game that gets our mind on what the scoreboard says and we have to change that.

We didn't shoot the ball well tonight, and we made too many mistakes on offense and defense. I'm thankful that the scoreboard came out our way at the end of the game. We really struggled tonight.

We didn't come on top on the scoreboard tonight, but our kids showed we can play with one of the best teams in the state. They played with heart and pride, which is all I can ask of them.

We could have issues with the scoreboard, ... The scoreboard is a $1 million piece of equipment.

I was on the 15th tee. I just eagled 13 and birdied 14. Nicklaus birdied 10. I thought 'This is cool, Jack and I are now tied.' As I hit the water on 15, I looked over at the scoreboard and just as one guy was finished putting up the 'S-E-N' (in Jacobsen), the other guy was taking down the 'J-A-C.'

You just have to turn the scoreboard around. That?s the only thing.

That stretch was critical, because I thought we had played great but just couldn't make a shot. When you have Tiffany Rodd and Ashley Fann open for threes as many times as they were, you're just waiting for the scoreboard to light up like a pinball machine. But the shots weren't falling.

We played hard early and, unfortunately, looked at the scoreboard and our intensity fell off. When you're only playing seven guys, sometimes you try to conserve energy, and that's my fault. I thought they definitely outplayed us as far as effort in the last 20 minutes.

We can't worry about the standings or watching the scoreboard or any of that kind of stuff. We just need to work on getting better.

We had it in our grasp. We could have taken care of business ourselves. We have two teams in front of us, so now we have to scoreboard watch and hope somebody else does it for us.

We executed to perfection in the first quarter. We played a box in one on (Donnie) Haywood and held him to two points and we had very few turnovers. At the end of the quarter, I looked up at the scoreboard and we were behind by two.

That was a tremendously well struck baseball with the wind blowing the way it was and to hit it over the scoreboard it was a quick four runs.

We really haven't been scoring enough. There is nothing like scoreboard pressure. It's one thing to be seven goals behind but, if you have kicked eight and they have kicked 15, for instance, you have at least done some scoring. But if you are that far behind and are not scoring, it is really hard to keep morale up.

You don't really scoreboard watch because the other teams don't put the other games on the scoreboard like we do, ... We basically want to win our game, then when our game is over you ask 'What did they do?'

We still control our own destiny - we don't have to look at the scoreboard and hope for other teams to win.

We won three quarters but came up short on the scoreboard again. I was proud of the effort our kids gave tonight, and hopefully we can come back Friday and get a win to get things started again.

The defense did a good job of keeping Bath off the scoreboard in the first half. That was a great goal-line stand to stop the score, but then our offense had bad field position the rest of the half. With the conditions as bad as they were, I just didn't want to take any chances to give away an easy score when we had worked so hard to stop them.

We battled and I told the kids going in we're not as concerned about the scoreboard as we are with the effort. We got the effort. But it was the bonus points. You always want to get them and not give them up and they got them.

We build a big lead and we let it go. We definitely played scoreboard basketball tonight.

We came in Monday and watched the film, and now we have to move on. The positive thing is that we don't have to scoreboard watch if we take care of our business.

With a chance to get on the scoreboard first, I just tried to have a compact swing. But I hit the ball on the sweet spot of the bat and got all of it.

To the Springboks' credit, they came all this way and never gave up as you saw on the scoreboard and in the way they played,

We're fortunate that the Yankees lost. Everyone is scoreboard watching, the players and the fans.

We knew they were a team that wasn't going to go away. They saw that scoreboard and saw they were only down a few points.

The stuff drives you crazy, if you let it. That's why you can't scoreboard watch. It doesn't do any good 'cause you don't know who to root for anyway.

The scoreboard reflects exactly how close this game was,

The Veterans Memorial Arena is 40 years old. The scoreboard doesn't work properly. The wooden seats are original. But for its purpose, it's more than viable.

It was tough not having those kids, but I saw some good things from the kids that filled in for them. We made (Walpole) earn everything, but they just executed on their passing game. The game was a lot closer than the scoreboard indicated.

What everybody saw on TV speaks for itself. I mean, any sane person ... realizes that it was a little ridiculous. I really felt after Friday that they were going to let this happen to the golf course. They looked up at the scoreboard and see all those red numbers and panic. They don't want 10 under to win their tournament, and that's just the philosophy that they've had forever. Maybe this will be something they can re-evaluate.

We've played very good defense, we get out on the attack well, we're moving the ball well ... I couldn't be happier. You've got to look past the scoreboard and see what this is going to do for us in the future. We're playing outstanding right now, and I'm so excited.

You'd think it was getting away from us, and all of a sudden we'd look at the scoreboard and the game was not over. What I've been telling the girls about playing through things and playing all the way to the end really helped.

Boy, the kids came out with a lot of energy and passed the ball extremely well. The bottom line is the scoreboard is more important to these kids than the scorebook.

Every time I hear the national anthem here, I look over at the center-field scoreboard and I can't wait until those planes fly over it in the World Series, ... You will cry, because that's the greatest feeling. I've seen it before. If I get to do it with this ballclub ... whoa, that's going to be the best feeling ever.

Every time I looked at the scoreboard even after a series of defensive stops we were always down by 10 points. Batavia just has so much depth, and they did an excellent job of keeping us at arm's length all night.

No scoreboard watching for me. I have a job to do and I cannot control what happens.

Some people like to put up numbers. I play to win. I didn't know how many homers I had near the end of the season, but we played Washington and they always talk junk, so I started looking at the scoreboard and that got me going.

The good ones understand that their role begins and ends with the scoreboard. The scoreboard will tell you if you've been successful or not. That's it.

That's why if it was up to me, I'd turn off all of the TVs in the clubhouse. And I'd turn the (out-of-town) scoreboard off at home, too. What good does it do? When you're in a pennant race, you shouldn't worry about the teams chasing you, so why watch the games?

A lot of these games are won in your head. If some of your brain is distracted by the scoreboard or thinking the other team is better, it carves you up. We tell the guys, if you continue to do what you're supposed to do it will all work out.

Right now we're scoreboard watching, but right now it's all about us. This team isn't going to give up.

Our conference is so tight, and the play is tight, we are watching the scoreboard every night. Tonight is just one game, and we are in first for a day. We just will hope to continue it.

Every time we looked up to the scoreboard (in practice), it was up there as a reminder of how bad we got beat.

If our five on the floor aren't doing what they are supposed to do, we're going to put five more out there. Scoreboard doesn't matter. Even though you've won back-to-back state titles, you have to do more than just step on the floor. Every team has us circled on their schedule. We have to respond to that.

If you look at their penalty killing and hours, if you look at the minutes that were spent in that situation, they created an advantage in play and an advantage on the scoreboard so it's pretty easy for us to find the place where we need to improve.

I kept looking at the scoreboard and was surprised we were ahead by so much. I really didn't anticipate us to lead by that margin.

I'm not going to say that anybody's going to run the ball down their throat. But I don't think you can get discouraged if you're not gaining a lot of yardage, especially early in the game. You can't just throw against them, you've got to stick to running it. But what happens is you get behind so fast. When you look at that clock and that scoreboard and it's 35-0, it's kind of hard to say you have to keep handing the ball off.