But this is peacetime, and those things don't count for anything now.
The thing about playing every single day is your teammates can count on you to be there.
The pleasant land of play is a democracy where such things do not count.
You try to be a nice guy, because those few things can count in the future.
Certain things do not count and can be subtracted from your income.
Another thing a man could count on, he thought.
The thing about the car may count against it, though.
People need things to count on, to believe in, to go home to, figuratively speaking.
"The things that people said and wrote in those days don't count," he explains.
This requires political genius, a thing one cannot count on.
