Quotes About Rankings

I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.

I had set a goal with my team to try and get back to the top of the rankings, but I never thought with the depth in the game this year that I would have been able to get it back so quickly.

I don't know how their ranking goes or anything else, and I tell people I don't really care how the rankings go.

The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free.

I don't care about no boxing legacy. I don't care where they put me on the list of all-time greats - let them put me at the bottom.

The higher a book's sales ranks, the better chances it has of being noticed by Amazon's internal recommendations engine.

Can anyone tell me what Jon Jones was ranked when he fought for the UFC title? No one knows. I believe, in that aspect, it was easier to get fights back then. It wasn't, 'What's this guy ranked?' You fought, made your money, and went home.

The rankings - they don't mean crap, to be honest.

It can be a quick career if you don't perform properly. If some of these pros don't do something to reinvent themselves, they're going to go down the rankings as quick as anything.

One should take writers' valuations of their own work with a pinch of salt: they are likely to rank them differently tomorrow.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one's success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

As I started developing, as I started playing more tournaments and getting higher in the rankings, I saw I had massive potential.

Movement is one of the most important things. My consistency, everything - there's a lot to improve. Coaches are never happy. But I'd like to keep improving, go deeper in the tournaments, and get as high in the rankings as possible.

American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.

Always the notorious red-light district of sports, boxing today is as troubled as it was even in the days when the Mob called the shots. There are too many lawsuits and too few heroes. Absurd mismatches and fraudulent rankings by unaccountable offshore sanctioning bodies have disgusted fans.

Mind you, I would not want the pressure of being number one in the world just two years before a World Cup. There is only one way to go and it is not up.

It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.

I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.

Rankings don't mean much to me because they can change after one fight. I just hope that I've at least gotten respect. A respect ranking is all I want.

American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.

Even my Mormon sister checks my rankings on Amazon.com.

bottom of the list. No one there has a probability over ten percent. I've got a couple who hit low

It was a completely pointless ambition, with no practical application whatsoever. But if you sit the average male down in front of anything halfway intriguing and explain to him that it has a system of rankings that he can get better at over time, he'll become obsessed. Hence the popularity of video games, martial arts, Dungeons and Dragons, and the seduction community. I

If you fight with big names, with legends of mixed martial arts like Alistair Overeem, Mark Hunt, like Fabricio Werdum, you will go to the highest rankings and get bigger and bigger names too.