Averages Quotations

If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.

There is just a lot of creativity and theatricality in performers who happen to be gay. Maybe there's a success in numbers, so by the law of averages we are going to get these jobs.

Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.

The performance of the major stock averages didn't make anyone happy in 2005. But when you consider what the markets had to contend with, treading water is not so bad.

We're just living a dream. I know we're going to have to give it back through bad luck. Everything averages out for the luck that you can't affect through preparation and strategy. Some of it you can't do anything about.

We used to try to get it all done in one deal. But now we approach it more like marketing our grain crop. We don't aim to get 100% locked in at the very top of the market. We try to get some on the way up and some at the top. And then we live with how it averages out. It has served us pretty well.

When the law of averages goes against us, I don't like the law. Maybe it was just FSU's time.

When the law of averages goes against us, I don't like the law. I think it was just poor execution on our parts. Maybe it was just Florida State's time.

Let's assume inflation averages 1 to 2 percent. Then you could see maybe the natural funds rate would be -- I don't know -- 3.5 percent, something like that,

She led mostly by example. When we needed a big play, she came up with it. She's capable of scoring 30 points in a night, but she averages about 11 points because she does such a good job of getting all of her teammates involved.

No -- I could get some advice from him this year ... Advice isn't going to help. You cannot pick when things go right and things go wrong. You have to look at the law of averages where they were winning games early in the year, too. It's hard to continue to win in that many different ways and that many close games. I'm confident they'll get it together and pull it together.

I don't know where that comes from. You tell me. The guy carries the ball 25 times a game and averages 100 yards a game. I don't think that's soft. Maybe because he does it with a smile.

But we're looking at averages and we need to know that it won't impact any of our students.

Futures have a little stronger tone to them. You look at the averages and they look like they are approaching some support levels ... And don't throw out the fact that this is traditionally a good time for the markets.

We're not worried at all. Guys are going to get there. They're going to be fine. Once league play starts, you'll see those averages start going up.

God really has cursed the sports fans of Chicago. It defies the law of averages when you think about it: 1908 and 1917. God didn't want it to happen. But if the White Sox ever win again, they'll probably set off a hydrogen bomb.

Historical records and the law of averages indicate the probability of seeing two consecutive years like 2004 and 2005 is very low.

He's a three-sport performer. He plays for me, then averages like 20 points in basketball and was a state-qualifier in the hurdles for the track team. He's impressive.

He's going through that natural period where people want to nitpick the very few negatives he may have instead of extolling all his positives, ... And in a little over 31 minutes a game he averages 18 and 8. He comes to work every day. He's totally selfless. Yet some want to badger the guy about whatever perceived shortcomings he has. I find that unfortunate because if they spent half the time looking at all his positives it would be a much better story.

He just wasn't getting himself into hitting position. He was late on everything. When that happens, the law of averages works against you.

I thought defensively we did a really good job on a team that averages 83 points per game. I was very pleased with our execution at both ends of the court.

I think those averages can be deceiving. Some of our principals are young.

I think stock selection is going to be key. It's just like last year, where if you picked a stock at random, you probably lost money even though the averages were up. And stock selection's going to be key again. You have to pick stocks that are going to have earnings that exceed the consensus. It sounds very simple but it's not the easiest thing in the world to do.

Our guards did a wonderful job defensively. We knew if we could hold them under the averages we would be in good shape and that is what we did.

Over the past couple of weeks, the move higher in the stock market has been supported by a few big-cap stocks. This is a repeat of the 'Nifty Fifty' in the '70s. While the averages have hit new highs, the bulk of the stocks is moving lower.

Pay attention to what the current markets are, see where the averages are and establish based off of what that market is some kind of price range that you're willing to trade in. You have to set your limits.

Wholesale gasoline prices have dropped across the country and West Coast gasoline inventory is strong. That actually led to a slight decline in pump prices in the last few days, although overall averages are still higher than at this time last week. However, oil industry analysts expect wholesale prices to start heading up again once the more expensive summer-grade fuel starts going on the market at the end of February.

We were never allowed to play for averages in the Kent side or take half an hour or more to get the last ten runs under normal conditions.

We've had games where we've strung together hits and scored bunches of runs, but I guess the law of averages caught up with us tonight.

Troy Lemay, who is the heart and soul of our team, did an outstanding job of holding Rosso - who averages in the high 20s to only eight points.

We haven't beaten them in a long time. It felt good to beat them. The law of averages finally caught up. I was glad to get the win, glad for my team.

Those are the four guys we're counting on to score for us. We're returning four guys with averages in the 70s, and that's key in golf. Definitely, we're going to be counting on those four guys to score for us -- night in and night out.

We don't have anyone who can deal with Quigley. She averages 22 and 12 and we don't want her going off for 28 and 20 or 25 and 15.

When a team averages 59 points a game, and we give up 91, it's unacceptable. We've got to stop them. We had a lot riding on this game.

Xavier's been kind of lucky as far as injuries (over the years). I guess it's the law of averages catching up to them.

The decline was sharper than expected, but the reading was still respectable and in line with the averages that were in place right before the hurricane hit in late August.

Wes averages 20 (points) and 10 (rebounds) and tonight he only played 11 minutes and had four points.

While it may be reasonable to expect that prices will, in due course, ease from the exceptional levels of recent months, I have little doubt they will remain above their long-run averages for a number of years. As a consequence, the outlook for 2006 is very encouraging.

Every time out, (Anderson) had to deal with some special defense directed right at him. His averages come even though he's heavily guarded.

While the recent moves of the market averages may be discouraging, we would not lose hope.

You may be able to get away with bad habits 10 times. But all it takes is one time and the law of averages catches up with you.

We changed our business practice and use the retail model. The customer is greeted and asked what business they are conducting, and we look at the documents they have. It averages 7 to 8 minutes from the first counter to when they walk away with a license.

We could see prices ease from record highs, but it's unlikely we'll see them return to historical averages we're used to.

Even though the averages themselves are doing nothing, there are some special situations going on here. There's a lot of action away from the averages.

Do we think that Pat, Taylor and Clint can score goals? Yes, absolutely and so does the rest of the league. The law of averages says that we're going to score goals.

Five years of having equity market growth of 25 percent a year seems to be a thing of the past. The law of long-term averages is reasserting itself.

They are a big, physical team that averages about 275 pounds on the offensive line, ... They are coached by former Cincinnati Bengal Bruce Kozerski so it should be a really interesting game.

The Santa Claus rally is clearly underway. I expect to see the bulls carry the averages to new 4 1/2 year highs right into next Friday's close.

The tech sector is where the money seems to want to flow. You can just look at last week's action, when all the averages were up, the money flows into technology, primarily in telecommunications. And even though the valuations have been high all of these quarters and still are, I guess if you want to do well in the market you've got to have some of your assets in technology, definitely.

Our seniors are the ones that lead this team. Gillespie (.600) has one of the top batting averages on the team and Bird leads by example on the field.

Our domestic demand for crude oil averages 21 million barrels a day. We refine only 17 million barrels a day. That means we import gasoline.

Our English for Speakers of Other Languages wait list averages about 400 and we update it once a month. In our pre-GED program, we get 80-100 applications per month throughout the year. People can be on the wait list for too long. We don't have enough to meet the demand.

After a 4 to 7 percent decline in the major averages from their midsummer highs, the market appears to be in a bottoming process, ... This should eventually provide the foundation for a late 2005-early 2006 recovery during which those averages could moderately exceed, or at least challenge, their summer peaks.

As a team, most of our guys shot around their averages for the season. Ryan Robley did shoot a couple of strokes below with his best back-to-back nines of the season.

That's what we do, ... Ben probably averages a hundred yards a game, but he does it on 10 carries.

Thirty minutes is not a big number, really. And I think another way to look at it is probably every team in America has got a kid or two that averages 30, 32, 34 minutes. If one kid can do it, there's nothing wrong with four kids doing it. Our kids have handled it very, very well.

There probably weren't many guys around the country, if any, who scored 41 points last weekend. Then you see he averages over 20 (points), averages over 10 (rebounds). Some guys can't get that in one game. He does it every night.

Darrell is the key for everything that we do. He plays 35-38 minutes a game (officially averages 36.6) for us.

That's now 42 goals against which averages two a game. That means we need to get three goals to win a match. That's why we went five at the back, to give them a hand. We sacrificed the flair up front, knowing that they were on the bench and we could throw them on.

I'm very concerned about the ERAs our pitchers have. I have concern about the low batting averages our hitters are having. We can't afford to have this night in and night out.

I'm left with the sense that this is a trading-range market, not a larger decline. The major averages are now coming down to their late August lows, which are presumably the low end of this trading range. There wasn't any real sign of a reversal yesterday, but support is nearby and downside leadership is poor.

Before his last game, he was shooting 64 percent from the floor. He's learning to shoot around the basket. He averages 13 to 15 shots a game and we call a couple plays for him, but he's mostly getting points out of our motion offense.

He's the consummate freshman football coach. When you listen to Fred talk to his assistant coaches about who they should play, it's all grade-point averages and who will play varsity as a senior.

He's very deserving. It's amazing what he's been able to do in turning around a losing program to one that wins a lot and averages 3,500 fans at home.

I felt the law of averages would eventually swing back your way. We were due for something good to happen, and sure enough, it happened.

He's not ready. It's his typical Spring Training regimen. If you look at his past, he basically averages eight innings in 'A' games, even back when he was in Atlanta. His first spring they pitched him 20 innings and he basically had a 10.00 ERA. It takes him a while to get going.

The hardest thing is trying to keep everybody happy. We're sharing minutes, and that means some scoring averages go down. But the bonus is having that depth, which we didn't have last year.

The Dow Theory says when correction lows are established, you want to see a retest of the highs, and if the retest of the highs in both averages fails and the market goes below those intermediate lows, that is under definition of the Dow Theory, a bear market.

You run the risk of customers trading down, which drives down check averages and hurts profits.