Quotes About Ranking

If Forbes would put a list of the 400 oldest Americans and I was on that one—that's the list I really want to be on.

Deluded or not, it's still a lucky way to live. Even though it's temporary. It may well be that the lower-ranked little kids at E.T.A. are proportionally happier than the higher-ranked kids, since we (who are mostly not small children) know it's more invigorating to want than to have, it seems. Though maybe this is just the inverse of the same delusion.

Here is how to read the monthly E.T.A. and U.S.T.A. and O.N.A.N.T.A. rankings the way Himself read scholars' reviews of his multiple-exposure melodramas. Learn to care and not to care. They mean the rankings to help you determine where you are, not who you are. Memorize your monthly rankings, and forget them. Here is how: never tell anyone where you are.

You can win a world title now ranked as seven, eight or nine in the world, and say you are a champion, because you have a version of it.

I was a rather quiet student, studying hard. Once, I was ranked fifth in a school exam out of everyone in the same grade.

They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that.

There are four different cars filling the first four places.

Even biologists rank species in a hierarchical order.

Do I like being No. 1? Absolutely. Who doesn't?

McGregor isn't the best featherweight on the planet. The best in the world is Jose Aldo, alongside with me, and everyone knows that.

I want to be amongst the top 10, if not top five filmmakers. Though I don't think I'd stand even in the list of top 30 actors.

while eight of the bottom ten were all states dominated by Yankees, with Massachusetts and the three northern New England states ranking the least religious of all.

All my life, Americans have been accustomed to thinking of theirs as 'the richest, freest' country in the world. By most measurements, it was long a contender for that honor, and - among the larger countries, if equal weight were given to wealth and indices of freedom - probably did deserve to be so described.

If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.

I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of good work and good citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.

The work and the work alone was what mattered and not the individual. (...) He found competition so distasteful that he even opposed school examinations and ranking, as well as all distinctions and honors. Not that he ignored the talent of others. He encouraged and advised those he considered gifted and was always disposed to aid anyone in a difficult situation and even to give his time, which was the greatest sacrifice he could make.

I think there are a lot of good players in the top 20, top 30 that are top-10 players. You got to get there. You got to earn it.

Inoki is nothing but a third rater in my estimation.

Ace-king is a fine hand. Ace-queen is a little weaker, but still good. With ace-jack, you're already sliding rapidly down a slippery slope. With ace-ten, you've slid down the slope, fallen off the cliff, and lie in wreckage at the bottom with hands like ace-five and ace-six.

Bill est le plus souvent à la première place dans les classements généraux.

Of course the opposite is also true. No one is as good as the best thing.

They sat there in ascending order of age and stupidity.

Average" is the top of the bottom, the best of the worst, the bottom of the top, the worst of the best. Which of these are you?

When someone says you are their number one, don't get your hopes up. That just means there's a number 2, and possibly a number 3.