Quotes About Competence

I speak for myself, my record speaks for itself, and my ability speaks for itself.

If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.

I'm not a defensive specialist, I'm a basketball player.

I think I am a complete player. I can play well on all the surfaces. For me, the clay might be easiest, but I am not a specialist on clay.

Most politicians are either generalists or specialists. It's very rare that a politician is both.

If we had to pick our group's specialty, it would be performance.

I think I'm okay at everything and not spectacular at any one thing that Kaggle does.

If he is having a bad game, a team-mate might feel Paul Scholes is not quite on his game, but a spectator wouldn't notice. Scholes, of all the players I have played with, has the highest bottom level.

For me, I know my capabilities and the spectrum I can cover as an entertainer.

If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys.

First of all you need to have speed. If you only have experience and don't have the speed, then you are never going to get the speed. This is the main point. So you are better off getting someone quick and you develop him with experience.

I am better at math than spelling.

I play Dr. Karen Boyer in 'Spies Like Us.' She's strong, intelligent and dedicated and just happens to be beautiful.

I believe it's a wrong conclusion to draw that Indians can't play spin bowling.

I generally have been a good player of spin.

Everybody has an idea of the kind of society they'd like to live in, and I would like to live in one where our senior politicians were spirited and original and possibly even good at what they do.

When you're good at something, there's always someone to spit on you.

I'm brilliant at working out numbers up to 180 but if you ask me to split a restaurant bill I'm rubbish.

I understand the plays, the depth, the routes, the splits and everything. I just feel good that I can make some plays. Definitely, the game's slowed down for me.

My work has spoken for itself, and I've been offered work purely on merit.

Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all their incompetence behind authority.

I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.

There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.

Any man who looks like a sissy while dancing is just a lousy dancer.