I ain't as good as I once was, But I'm as good once as I ever was.
There are always people who will be better at some thing than you are.
I think - there's always going to be a percentage of people who maybe aren't as good as others.
Do I lack speed? Yeah, but a lot of guys lack speed.
Talking, being a better talker, wouldn't have been that hard. It was just, I was just naturally gifted at other things.
I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else.
I didn't realize how good I was with computers until I met my parents.
I know I'm smarter than an armadillo
I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
At Lyon, there's 20 other superstars there - I'm not the best player there. I'm not the best player at England.
The less concerned with aesthetics and usability these friends and family members are, the more easily they navigate sites and applications I can't make head nor hair of. Like the ex-girlfriend who mastered Ebay.
No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .
I wasn't the greatest reporter in the world, but I wasn't starting at zero.
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
The only story my grandfather tells me about his days in the NFL is how much better he was than me.
I'm not the slowest writer that you know.
I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.
I always feel that if you were the best in any generation, you most likely would have been close to the best in any other generation too.
In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.
People's lives really do turn out differently. And it certainly can't be explained by how intelligent you remember them being when they were sitting next to you in organic chemistry class.
