Quotes About Ranking

When I couldn't sign with the UFC, I think my goal of being Number 1 in the world went out the window. There's just no way of doing that at Welterweight without being in the UFC. I could go 50-0, and as long as it's outside the UFC, I'm not going to be Number 1.

Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.

Most would recognize at core that the main purpose of grades is to compare one student against another.

Status is about counting, numbering, ranking and ultimately about excluding.

The steering wheel and the engine are of equal importance. It is a human impulse—composed of equal parts arrogance and instinct—to believe we can rank everything in our environment. Importance is not an intrinsic quality of the universe. It exists only in our delusion-filled minds. I can assure you that humans are not in any form or fashion more important than rocks or steering wheels or engines.

Imagine if you had access to data that allowed you to rank on a scale of overall happiness which people in your life made you the happiest. … Would you make more time for those people?

A business organization should be ranked and rated the best and bigger than others not by its biggest profitability figures but by the big possibility created for the employment opportunity for the population of the nation.

Better to appreciate a person by own selfless thinking only than his/her ranking projected through media publicly.

I knew that I had some qualities, physically and 'tennistically.' But my goal was to be top 100.

I normally fly under the radar, and I'm normally not the best in my family, even though I'm sort of second or third best in the world.

I really had a problem with being 'the man.' I'm past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being No. 3 on the call sheet or No. 2.

You can't have a value structure without a hierarchy. They're the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

In Brazil, you know that only first place counts; in other countries, you might celebrate coming second, third, or fourth, but not in Brazil.

I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.

Sachin Tendulkar is in my time the best player without doubt - daylight second, Brian Lara third.

I don't know if that result's enough to life Birmingham off the bottom of the table, although it'll certainly take them above Sunderland

The 2010 Global Burden of Disease study of 291 conditions ranked low back pain as the highest cause of disability and sixth in terms of overall burden.

I can't rank anything. I mean, how could anyone possibly say what their favourite piece of music is? I don't have the ability or the desire to categorise things of that nature.

I don't rank competitions - every single one is the Olympics to me.

First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one.

It's very hard to rank performances. It's very difficult, and it doesn't really matter if you rank performances.

I highly respect Eminem. I rank him up there with Jay Z, Biggie and Nas.

This is a special class right here, to be an All-Star in the NBA. I don't think anybody would have thought when I was coming in the league that I would get this accomplishment. This is special. I don't know where I would rank it, but it's definitely high on the list.

I don't rank receivers myself, because I feel like I'm one of the top.