Jonathan Swift Quotes

Where Macgregor sits, there is the head of the table.

It's not quite as important who you beat as that you end up on top.

In America everything's about who's number one today.

The people who are No. 1 are No. 1 for a reason.

I like to be at the top of the ratings.

We all want to be at the top level.

To be first is something special.

First be best, then be first.

Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.

I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.

I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.

Listen, I believe I should be winning Sport Personality of the Year because if it's about sporting achievements and it's about personality, then I'm a winner hands down.

When you're on top, you're on top.

For Athens alone of her contemporaries is found when tested to be greater than her reputation, and alone gives no occasion to her assailants to blush at the antagonist by whom they have been worsted, or to her subjects to question her title by merit to rule. Rather, the admiration of the present and succeeding ages will be ours.

The Pedigree of Honey Does not concern the Bee- A Clover, any time, to him, Is Aristocracy-

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talent.

Titles and honor and salutes it is in the power of the supreme authority in many countries to bestow, and it is from no vain or childish instinct that the world in all ages has attached value to these emblems or rewards.

He’s the best man in this country.

The only place that matters is first.

I could care less about identifying who the MVP is in a championship game.

I always get amazed as to how we always need to have someone as the best of something. Why can't we have two people as the best at something?

After a world title run, you can't really call someone else your leader.

I have been blessed when it comes to winning the titles, as I have won it all, and I am always in the scheme of things.

Only so many can succeed. Only one can be number one.

Being favourites is no title; it's an adjective. You win titles thanks to what you do on the pitch, and little else.