Quotes About Comparison

When I considered PSG before I signed for Juventus one thing that put me off was wondering what the point is of coming second every year.

People would come up to me, saying, 'You sound a lot like the lead singer from Queen.' I started wondering, 'Who is this guy making me sound so unoriginal?'

I cannot compare myself to Zico, he is a phenomenon of Brazilian football. He has done wonders as player and coach.

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.

I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood. I was in Japan and someone held out a photo of him for me to sign.

I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood.

I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.

I remember when Victoria Wood started to come through, and I thought she was great, though she and I are very different in our approach.

One time, somebody said I look just like Evan Rachel Wood but hotter.

There have been some terrific player's names being bandied around that I am being compared to and that is great. I am just able, touch wood, to take it in my stride. That's how I am. I am not embarrassed or pressurised by it. It is just great and I want to do as well as they did.

When you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we're 'well-placed to weather the storm', I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line.

Do women golfers say they could go out and beat Tiger Woods?

It's flattering to be compared in any way to Tiger Woods, because he's the best player in the world.

They're each on separate coasts but I think that the deep Maine woods shares some similarities to the Pacific Northwest.

Everyone here seems to appreciate the sunshine way more than we do in California. We tend to take it for granted, but in Chicago, it's like Woodstock love every time it gets above 70 degrees.

My sense of my own superiority over many of my classmates would have been much more muted if I knew that they had seen me failing miserably at woodwork or cross-stitch.

I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.

Actually, I'm the Scottish Woody Guthrie.

I know that this sounds grand, but I don't try to compete with other people. I like to think there's enough pie for everyone. The kind of people I'm competing with are my heroes - Woody Allen, Billy Wilder - who I know I'm going to fall short of.

Woody Allen movies are like Beatles songs. I can't name my favorite without you immediately naming a better one.

In a weird way, I never wanted - I don't consider myself a very good writer. I consider myself okay; I don't consider myself great. There's Woody Allen and Aaron Sorkin. There's Quentin Tarantino. I'm not ever gonna be on that level. But I do consider myself a good filmmaker.

I would say 'struggling' is a good word. We were all struggling to keep doing what we were doing, and more things were expected of us. I mean, one of the big things was how in the world are we going to top 'Hotel California?'

Unloved is not the right word... but I never felt I made the grade. Mark was a blond, very attractive little boy, and sporty, so Dad was always teaching him to play cricket on the lawn... I always felt I came second out of two.

In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past.