Quotes About Comparison

Take Jonathan Franzen's work: it's just old wine in new bottles. They say he's the Tolstoy of the digital age, but there can only be a Tolstoy of the Tolstoyan age.

I know I have been compared with Broony and he is a player I've looked up to massively. When I first went into the Scotland squad he took me under his wing.

Ronaldo is different from Messi. He is very impressive down the wings.

When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?

It's hard to live up to The Beatles. When Wings toured, they got slated. Even Dad found it hard living up to The Beatles. I started out playing under an alias because I wanted to start quietly.

I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.

Sometimes you can be one of the best, but you don't accept that if you don't get the ring or win the Super Bowl. There's a lot of good teams between the Super Bowl winner and other teams. Once the Super Bowl is over, we lump everyone into the other 31, and that's not fair.

I grew up thinking you're either a winner in the world, or you're not. I presumed I was not. I had no reason to think I would be, and my inclination is towards self-deprecation. I wish I'd known no one was judging my every move, but I'm still like this!

I was only 30 years old, and the second Mr. Olympia was probably the most outright win in the history of the sport. It literally took the judges two minutes to see the winner, and then they concentrated on who is coming second.

Clearly Bolt would beat me over 100 metres on the track. But on grass, over 30 metres with a ball at my feet? I'm winning that race every time!

If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?

In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you.

If he wins seven golds and ties what I did, then it would be like I was the first man on the moon and he became the second. If he wins more than seven, then he becomes the first man on Mars. We'd both be unique.

How do you say one actor is better than another actor? You can definitely say that in the Olympics if it's the same race and someone wins the race. The only way to really do it and have it be sincere would be if you get all the actors together, and they're all playing the same part, and then you rate which one made you feel the most.

All I know is that when I mix to digital and when I mix to tape I compare them and the tape always wins out.

Texans have in common with Australians, in that they are quite strong, hardy people.

I feel like Texas high schools, when you consider the melting pot that exists in Texas, do a fairly impressive job. No education process is perfect, but I think that, with plenty of room to improve, they do an admirable job when you compare them to the rest of the field.

When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm like, 'I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.'

Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar.

Texas created more jobs in 2008 than the rest of the states - combined.

If you start comparing my practice of law to what I could have been - selling bananas - you'll know why I gave money to the University of Texas.

California - with more cars, more drivers and more people - still has less DWI-related deaths than Texas does.

It's always bothersome when California does something better than Texas.

Texas is generally 82 degrees year round. I always tell people you don't know cold until you have been to Boston.