Quotes About Average

I'm a more consistent player than I was and if I can keep averaging over 100 week-in and week-out in the Premier League I'll be happy.

'Playboy' operated with a patina of civility that granted the average man a presumption of pleasure that went one way - his. And that permission flourished in the psyches of all kinds of men.

You look at stats for a guy who is a pretty good linebacker, he'll make 100 tackles. You make 100, you're averaging seven or eight tackles a game. If you play every down, that's a good number.

I was not a good student; I was an average student. In order to play basketball and baseball, I had to go to school every day. And so I was pretty good in terms of attending school.

As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average.

I, uh, don't think I'm, y'know, so different than your average, y'know, average.

I do not put my tastes as incredibly expensive, but they are incredibly expensive for an average man.

Scorsese and De Niro taught me to bring out the natural side of myself. And they taught me to think of myself as the average guy. Sometimes the average guy belongs in a role more than your matinee idol-type of person. We have to have people we can relate to.

I think the word for me is survival, not ambition. I'm really a lucky man. I've always accepted whatever I was in, whether it was driving a taxi or entertaining. The jet set might not enjoy what I do, but I deal with the average person.

The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.

In high school, baseball was life. My senior year, I had the highest batting average on the team. I was one of the starting pitchers. I wanted to play Division III ball and eventually coach.

the combat career of a new German pilot now lasted, on average, less than a month.

Yet neither the regressives' stop-at-nothing tactics nor their social Darwinist message would have gained much traction were it not for the stunning failure of Democrats to make the case for a strong and effective government that responds to the needs of average people.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

Excellence is born of preparation, dedication, focus, and tenacity; compromise on any of these and you become average.

The sophisticated investor is not watching a long-term average, but a moving average.

Is it an investment property? Is it rented? What is the current rent? What is the vacancy rate? What are the average rents in that area? What are the maintenance costs? Is there deferred maintenance? Will the owner finance? What types of financing terms are available?

at thirty-two she had less dating experience than the average high school student.

While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.

They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo.

The average person can tolerate being told something which he or she knows nothing about. (Which is why news is an effective advertising approach.) But the average person cannot tolerate being told he or she is wrong. Mind-­changing is the road to advertising disaster.

Ladies and gentleman! You've read about it in the newspapers! Now, shudder as you observe, before your very eyes, that most rare and tragic of nature's mistakes! I give you...the average man!!

Devia ser uma tarde de felicidade, mesmo para os homens de uma sorte mediana.

There is more in sickness than the name of that sickness. In the average person is the peculiar that has been scuttled, and in the peculiar the ordinary that has been sunk; people always fear what requires watching.