Quotes about streaks (16 Quotes)


    Most of the players would probably agree with me that the reason we've improved so much over the last five or six years is because of Tiger. We had to. He came out all guns blazing, and he was like streaks ahead of us. We had to do something.

    As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent streaks on the slow swells. There is no end to the sky and the waters. How well they accompany sadness.

    He's probably the hottest hitter in baseball right now. And we didn't make some good pitches to him. When you elevate balls in the middle of the plate to him, he's not going to miss them. Certainly not when he's on one of those streaks.

    (Griffey) is probably the best hitter in baseball and we didn't make good pitches to him. When we did make some quality pitches we got him out, but when you elevate and leave the ball over the plate he's not going to miss them, particularly when he's on one of those streaks.

    It's easy to allow yourself to get in that kind of a bad mindset, and we kind of did. Our play showed. We had streaks of good basketball and streaks of really bad basketball. That's something we have to fix.


    He approached every game the way you should approach every game and he really tried to help others out. Not just by example, he would tell you. I remember being young and asking him about going through rough streaks and say this is what I'm doing. Mark didn't have to be a goalie to be able to relate to what I was going through. He was an athlete and a competitor and he could give you advice.



    When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it.

    Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking.

    Im really kind of oblivious to it. I think the players are, too. I just think these kinds of streaks come and go, and this one has just kind of happened. Im impressed by our players mental ability to respect our opponents.

    WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren't playing so well, you don't have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

    I said early on, we were going to have our bad times and we were going to have our streaks. Right now, there are teams sliding and streaking, and were streaking. And theres still a half season to go. Hey, you never know.


    In basketball, there are always runs and streaks. A team is going to play harder in the fourth when they are down. I know I would want my team to do that. Luckily, we've been able to sustain our leads and come out with the win.

    But at that point, there's a lot of football left. Even eight games of football is having a lot of games left. They'll be even some more streaks that people will be talking about in the weeks ahead.



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