Quotes About Competence

In general, I enjoy athletes who have a strong character who let their abilities speak for themselves.

I want to be the strongest player, the most intelligent player, and the most skilled player on the court at all times.

Everybody is looking for that chiseled guy. Just because they have a lot of muscles, they think he's the strongest guy out there, this and that. Lucky for me, the skills pay the bills.

Being a comfortable public speaker, which involves easily being able to go off-script, strongly signals competence.

Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business.

I grew up with plenty of smart people. They would beat me at chess; they could solve brain teasers before I could, but then they would struggle in algebra. These were incredibly smart people who simply did not have the foundation in math that I had.

No one wants to see me struggling to get a horse under control because I can't ride it. And no one wants to see me not knowing how to deal with the psychological makeup of the character.

Some people will have their opinions, but to be in the league, you have to have confidence that you're one of the best.

I never liked being ordered around - which, of course, was an overreaction. I eventually found out that I didn't mind being ordered around at all when it was by someone who knew what he was doing.

It can be a real blow to our egos when we feel as if our hard-earned degrees don't matter as much as our ability to get the morning coffee orders right.

I certainly couldn't run a big country house, nor could I organize the greatest show on earth.

I was always good at math, but I was good at everything. It sounds obnoxious, but I was just smart. In school, it's kind of obvious when you're learning things faster than other kids.

I've played the outfield my whole life. It's like riding a bike.

Don't go outside the box when you're still not very good inside the box.

You'll never get anyone saying something detrimental about Jose - he's an outstanding manager.

There's one thing I'm really good at, and that's hitting the ball over a net, in a box. I'm excellent.

I want my bowling to speak for me. In fact, not only my bowling, my batting, my fielding. Overall, I want my cricket to speak.

My strength is that I know the game so well. Whatever shortcomings I had because of lack of experience, I could always overcome those because the bottom line was, I knew the game.

I understand football. I have always been a good footballer, and that gets overlooked by most people.

You know, you don't need a leader to sort of administer something that's going very well. In fact, in one sense, an overly ambitious person in that circumstance can probably screw it up.

When I see the crumbling roads and bridges, or the dilapidated airports, or the factories moving overseas to Mexico, or to other countries, I know these problems can all be fixed, but not by Hillary Clinton - only by me.

I have always done justice to my role and I don't worry about being overshadowed.

work performance is not an abstraction: You can't say that Ted is a high-performance worker in general, only that he has proved himself good at doing some one particular thing. Fragmentation

Years of experience: People who had ten years of experience did not outperform those with two years of experience. There was no correlation between experience and performance except that those with less than six months' experience with the language used in the exercise did not do as well as the rest of the sample.