Quotes About Comparison

Personally, I like to think I'm like my old man. I like to think I have the brains he did.

My 'new' knee now feels like a bionic knee compared with my old one.

My opinion of covers is that unless you're going to change and take a cover in a new direction, it's gonna get put up against the old one, and you're gonna lose. It's like, which would you rather listen to? The Righteous Brothers' 'Loving Feeling' or Hall and Oates' 'Loving Feeling?'

Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'

My sister is three years older and super foxy, and I always looked like a 50 year old woman.

Even as a small child I never felt that I should have to compete with anyone - even my older brother.

Everybody, I think, who hopes to become a judge would aspire to be able to write as well as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. None are going to be able to attain that.

What I need to do is establish myself as Oliver Burke and not as the new Gareth Bale. To do that I need to work hard in La Liga.

People say I'm like a cross between Jamie Oliver, Russell Brand and Mr Motivator.

Olivia Chow is no Jack Layton.

No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner.

To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.

We knew James Harden was good. You don't get named to All-Star games and win Olympic gold medals when you play like Darko Milicic.

I was almost expecting the Olympics to be the biggest thing ever, but it wasn't. It was just another race.

As you get older, you get more accepting - although, if you asked me whose body I would want, I would say Jess Ennis's at the Olympics.

We make two mistakes about the ancient world. One is to assume they were better than us - that, for instance, the ancient Olympics didn't involve money-making. The opposite mistake, and just as common, is to think our Olympics are much more civilised than ancient sporting competitions. Neither is true.

I didn't make the Olympics, but I beat a lot of the guys that went to the Olympics, so I felt I was at that level even though I didn't make it.

My dad went to the Olympics, so he has that one over me. So if I go there, I'm pretty sure he has nothing to say anymore.

Omaha, like Rome, is built on seven hills.

It's like Canada is the little brother to the United States and one day they are going to show the world they're just as cool as their successful big brother.

When kids tried to pick on me, I always had one line to shoot them down with: 'I make more money in a week than you'll make in your entire life.' Which probably wasn't true, but they thought it was.

I never mind talking about my dad. I'm proud of who he is, and being his son is one of the things I'm most proud of. To be constantly compared to someone so brilliant, who happens to be your dad, is cool.

Maidana is one-dimensional and not in my league. I'm a Ferrari and he's a go-kart, and my fans will see that.

I don't know that the best way to approach it is to try and keep up. When you're doing that, you're setting yourself into a one-dimensional sort of race basically.