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Quotes About Streaks

I warn't never meant to be a lady, I know that now. I got streaks of wildness in me that trip me up every time, and just like streaks in clothes, there's some dirt that just won't wash out.
~ L.A. Meyer
Rule 1. Markets are risky. Rule 2. Trouble runs in streaks. Rule 3. Markets have a personality. Rule 4. Markets mislead. Rule 5. Market time is relative
~ Benoît B. Mandelbrot
When you're hot, you're hot; when you're not, you're not.
~ Flip Wilson
Home runs usually come in bunches for me. If I'm feeling good and I'm on time, I can drive the ball even more.
~ Garrett Atkins
I've never been a guy that's consistently hit home runs. It's always seemed to come, like, three or four in a week or two, and then I'll shut it down for a couple of weeks.
~ Freddie Freeman
I've certainly had shooting slumps in the past. It's nothing new. You go through stretches like that.
~ Gordon Hayward
When you understand what's involved in winning, as do professional gamblers, you'll tend to bet more during a winning streak and less during a losing streak. However, the average person does exactly the opposite: he or she bets more after a series of losses and less after a series of wins.
~ Tharp, Van
Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you get 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.
~ Gene Mauch
I think all young women are cursed with a streaks of unrelenting foolishness, and all young men are cursed with a streak of absolute stupidity.
~ Neal Shusterman
Basketball is a game of streaks. Sometimes a guy will be cold for a month and then get hot for a month.
~ John Stockton
Goals come in bunches. When you're hot, things go in. Then there will be times where you go through a span where you have about 20 games without a goal and it's just how it is.
~ Brad Marchand
In an 82-game season, you're going to have some dry spells where goals are harder to come by, and other times they're just going to come in bundles.
~ Barry Trotz
I warn't never meant to be a lady, I know that now. I got streaks of wildness in me that trip me up every time, and just like streaks in clothes, there's some dirt that just won't wash out.
~ L.A. Meyer
I think it's one of the more underrated careers out there. A lot of times it wasn't the flashiest stuff, but I've gone out there, I've had great streaks, I won the light heavyweight belt.
~ Ryan Bader
Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.
~ Barry Ritholtz
If God was down here drinking His coffee, then He was on his second cup, because He'd already Windexed the sky. Only the streaks remained.
~ Charles Martin
There have been lots of times in my career where you go four or five games and feel like you can't hit anything. And you also have the exact opposite.
~ Joe Harris
and then gouts of them, a straggling mass of buttery beating wings, and after a while clouds of butterflies so thick they blinded me briefly and smeared my windows and left powdery streaks of scales on the hood of my car when I smacked into them.
~ Paul Theroux
I want geometric streaks that cross in the air and form a disharmony that I understand. Pure 'it
~ Clarice Lispector
When you win 20 games in a row and then lose four, people ask you, 'What happened?'...That's the beauty of sports.
~ Tony Parker
Weave, weave, weave, you streaks of rain! I am dissolved and woven again... Thousands of faces rise and vanish before me. Thousands of voices weave in the rain.
~ Conrad Aiken
Dawn was coming up in streaks and slashes over the foggy moor.
~ Diana Gabaldon
real age, as I came to see from the genuine pieces that passed through my hands, was variable, crooked, capricious, singing here and sullen there, warm asymmetrical streaks on a rosewood cabinet from where a slant of sun had struck it while the other side was as dark as the day it was cut.
~ Donna Tartt