However, it has got to that stage in the season where those well-worn phrases invariably filter through into pre and post match interviews.
But Harrison will be delighted to talk about "a season of two halves" if his side can overcome their wretched start and begin posting some much-needed points.
Halifax really do face a "make or break" few weeks leading up to Christmas.
Without a win in National Three (North) to date, the next three fixtures offer the club the best possible opportunity of troubling the "W" column in the league table.
Today's game against second bottom Darlington Mowden Park offered the first opportunity to turn improved performances into something more tangible.
After that third bottom Hull Ionians visit Ovenden Park with a short pre-Christmas jaunt to near neighbours Bradford & Bingley the third game in the set.
However, Harrison is anxious that his side do not get too wrapped up in what might be and will urge them to focus on the immediate job in hand.
"Yes we do have to take things one game at a time, but I do not want the players beating themselves up because we are playing the likes of Darlington and expecting to win," said Harrison.
"It is a question of building on the little things that have been going well for us and staying focused on what we have to do in any given 80 minutes.
"It is another league game and if we can get the performance and the application right, then we have every chance of winning.
"If you start thinking too far ahead then that is when you lose the focus and you tend to come unstuck."
Another aspect guaranteed to keep the players' feet on the ground is the fact that at this stage of the season, it is quite often the teams around you that pose the biggest threat, as Harrison is only too well aware.
"It is a fact that often the easiest games to play at this stage of the season are against the teams in the top six in the table," added Harrison.
"People will look at today's fixture, and possibly the next few to come, and think they are games we should be winning.
"But the opposition will be saying exactly the same thing.
"There is a lot at stake for all the teams around us at the bottom so in that respect every game from now on in becomes a cup final.
"Every team in this league is beatable, and by the same token, every team can beat us.
"We have to treat every team we come up against with the same mindset, and that is we are going to play hard, play it strong, get in their faces and stay there for 80 minutes.
"I have been pleased by the way the players have responded to what we are trying to do in the last few weeks, and that is all you can ask.
"You look for your senior players to take the lead when the going gets tough, lads such as Oli Marns and Craig Emmerson, players who have the club at heart and can instil enthusiasm in others.
"There is going to be pressure from outside of the group, such as from the club officials, the supporters, and other people looking in.
"They're going to be saying it's Darlington and Ionians, teams that aren't going so well and they will be expecting us to win.
"But they could quite easily be banana skins. All I can do is prepare the players to the best of my ability.
"If we can start to reproduce the level of performance that we have shown in the last few games, then we should start to see a turnaround."