Dave Barry Quotes

It's not a gender thing. You can pick anyone off the street and it depends on his or her own character how they can drive a car.

I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.

I'm a good driver.

I rate myself as a driver, but I think everybody does.

I think there is only one person who can judge what I can do behind the steering wheel - and that's myself.

I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.

And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.

I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.

I am a very good driver - a defensive driver.

I believe I am more intelligent than the average person.

I'm not the greatest driver. I don't know if I'll ever master the art.

Age doesn't affect driving - how do you like that?

For people at the bottom who are really doing badly — those in the bottom 10th or 15th percentile — they think their work falls in the 60th or 55th percentile, so, above average. People at the bottom still think they're outperforming other people.

The one thing about doing all those movies and all that television is I know what I'm doing. And I can do what Sean Connery can do. I can do what Clint can do. People even say I look a little like Clint. But that's just because I'm skinny and tall and old. With a receding hairline.

I think I'm so much of a better driver than I was when I first came to Duke; that's the biggest thing for me.

The most important thing is that at a certain moment you can drive.

Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.

It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the ones we think we have.

That’s what scares me, Gideon. You don’t know what you’re worth.” “Actually, I do. Twelve bill—” “Shut up.

Not saying I rate myself lots now, but I rate myself more because I've been exercising. I'd say a six now. Just above average. There are a lot of good-looking people out there, you see, so more than six is getting a bit cocky.

The scoreboard can't make you a loser. If you walk off the field with your head up, you don't lose. You don't hang your head for nobody. People in the stands think you're the greatest or the worst - their opinion doesn't make a difference. The only opinion that makes any difference is your own opinion of yourself.

She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

There is so much more than that little space from 14 to 40. And if you cut that off and begin to believe that you are not good past a certain age, then you end up scared and insecure and afraid. That is definitely NOT beautiful.

I'm Michael Schumacher. I don't need to test my driving ability.

I'm not the best player in the history of tennis. I think I'm amongst the best. That's true. That's enough for me.