Quotes About Ranking

The 50 greatest players don't matter when you're in the Hall of Fame. We all know that I was not one of the 50 greatest, I was one of the 25 greatest - in my mind.

If she had been in a pointing competition, she would have lost points.

Anna Kournikova will always be better paid than Lindsay Davenport. The first left the circuit without having won a single title while the second was world number one.

To me, Messi, Neymar and Suarez are among the three best players in the world.

As a quarterback, I appreciated the passer rating whether you threw the ball a majority of the time or if you didn't throw it as much. You were judged on a level playing field, and I thought teams should be ranked similarly.

Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others.

The more ties you wear, the higher rank you are.

We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts, and cultivate those.

Our lives and our deaths surely count equally, or we must abandon one-man-one-vote, dismantle democracy, and assign seven billion people an importance-of-life ranking from one to seven billion.

If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.

The games and sports of the playground and streets was one registration carried with us as long as we live. Our conduct, strategies, and tactics, our ranking and comradeship. Our wins and losses.

It's been interesting. I went through a period where a lot of people would recognize me, and then when I had injures and my ranking dropped, not as many people did.

Being recognized as the pound-for-pound No. 1 fighter is my ultimate dream.

When I was a kid, the guy who was Intercontinental champion was the guy who was next in line for the World Heavyweight championship.

It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.

You can be world champion, but ranked No 6 in the world, with there being four champions.

I got to world champion, No 1-rated fighter in the division and managed to earn from the defences.

I think being world number one and world champion, pressure comes with that.

I think whoever wins the World Cup deserves the right to be named the number one-one day team in the world.

The bestseller list is the tip of the iceberg.

I'm tired of being 51st in this country on the NEAP scores on fourth-grade math. We don't have but 50 states.

I know lots of people who climb very high in the rankings without winning a single title.

I do not like to put one title above the other. Every competition I contest and win is important.

Who would I think is the favorite? Well, to be honest, I think the top players. We are all very close, very equal.