Quotes About Rankings

Rankings, for most players, are like adversity because we all want to be the best. So you've just got to approach it like you would a tough situation on the court. You just have to respond.

Rankings don't always mean what they should. Sometimes the numbers - the butts you can put in seats mean more.

The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball players.

I want to fight the guys that are ranked above me, even though I don't care about rankings because they're just opinions anyway. Even if a guy is below me and wants to fight, I'll take the fight if it makes sense.

I'm ready to fight anyone, top 10, top 5... I deserve a chance at the belt.

I don't necessarily know about the rankings. I always like to look at it as, it's the person with the belt, and it's everybody else.

I don't care where I am in the rankings or anything like that - I just want a UFC belt.

Researchers have applied diverse methods to examine the connection between thinking and self-control. Some have addressed it by asking the correlation question: If people were ranked by their self-control and by their cognitive aptitude, would individuals have similar positions in the two rankings?

Whatever their flaws, rankings are less noisy than ratings.

I don't believe in rankings. Sometimes the rankings surprise me. I don't think it's fair to judge a team on the basis of rankings.

I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine.

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

The only reason I want to climb up the rankings - beating the champion and beating guys in the top five - those are the guys that get the endorsements and get the most money and get paid the most. That's the only reason why.

Two years ago, of course, I was just a rookie and listened to everybody. In a way I am still a rookie. I'm only 23 and I'll be surrounded by great players who have played in a lot more Ryder Cups than myself. But the rankings say I am the best player at the moment and so that brings a responsibility.

The rankings show the players playing the best and most consistent for 12 months.

As far as Nurmagomedov, I just don't get how you become the No. 1 contender without actually fighting guys who are ranked in the top 10. It kind of baffles me.

If there were rankings for press conferences, I wouldn't have to worry about dropping out of the top five, I hope.

Rankings create incentives for universities to become more like what the rankings measure. What gets measured is what gets attention. That leads to homogenization as they abandon their distinctive missions and become more like their competitors.

The hazard of metrics so purely focused on monetary return on investment is that like so many metrics, they influence behavior. Already, universities at the very top of the rankings send a huge portion of their graduates into investment banking, consulting, and high-end law firms—all highly lucrative pursuits.48 These are honorable professions, but is it really in the best interests of the nation to encourage the best and the brightest to choose these careers?

I don't feel an obligation to go by the rankings - we all know how those rankings are produced anyway. I want to go out there and fight the money fight.

You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of No.12, do you? Anyway, as I keep telling everyone, you can't blame me for looking like this on purpose.

All this terminology of rankings - forcing rankings along some distribution curve or whatever - we're done with that.

College rankings, though, are very different. The rankings simply don't measure what people think they measure: the educational experience for an individual student. Doing that requires a personalized look at a college through the eyes of a potential student.

When Yelp first took off, our rankings on Google would fluctuate wildly.