Cobi Jones Quotes

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

Never compare one person with another.

It's always seductive to know where one stands in relation to the average.

I don't like to compare coaches.

It is better to be compared with a very good coach than the other way.

The job as a coach is difficult.

You can't compare any job or any friendship or anything to another. I think if you do, it's kind of a recipe for disaster.

It's very hard to win anything in athletics.

Of course, any work you do as a sporting person, a football coach or any coach, if it is good work, you've got to have something - a championship - to show for it.

A lot of things happen in a difficult way inside Ferrari in terms of pressure.

I have to give all the solutions and feedback to my players if we want to improve.

I have been compared with Antonio Conte and it is an honour to be compared with him. I would love to enjoy the same success he has had as a coach.

I didn't know about competition until I got to school. I didn't know how degrading it was to be graded until I got to school.

2019 will be very hard to top and wipes away anything that happened the year before that.

It's important to say that the more challenging a scene is, in a way, the more fun it is because the more of my job I get to do.

We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.

Maybe no one can know how it is for anyone else.

Yeah, acting is very difficult. As much as I love it, and the challenge of it, I'm so often just terrified by it.

Ability is not always gauged by examination.

You just kind of go and do your own thing. Sometimes it's really hard to compare apples and oranges, so you don't really think of it that way. You just perform to your fullest potential and hope everybody else does too. And however it works out, it works out.

Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better.

Something that works for one person could be a disadvantage to another.

Mediocrity is contextual.

Human beings are not comparable. You can't compare us any more than you can compare roses and oranges, or mountains and the sea. You might prefer living by the sea to living in the mountains. You certainly like some people better than you like others. Preferences are perfectly valid...they're just your style asserting itself again. But you'd feel pretty silly saying 'The sea is better than the mountains.' It's every bit as silly to go around saying 'I'm better than Mary, but Joe is better than me.'