Skill Level Quotes

Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.

When you're playing the best player in the world, you've got to play well.

To play with the best is very easy.

You always want to play against the best.

I would never do 'Dancing With The Stars,' because it's just not fair. I am too good of a dancer. It would be like LeBron James playing little league basketball.

I always wanted to play with the older kids because they were better and it was more fun. It was harder, and I failed more, but it was more fun.

All good players are interesting.

It's best to keep a strategic fight and try to win because the level of the sport is so high.

I'm quite good at golf. I'm not amazing, but I play a lot.

You know when you play a good game and you know when you play a bad game.

Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.

I've been playing against really good guys. Put myself in positions to win. Eventually I'll win more than I lose these.

The NBA is not for everybody. And looking from the outside in like I did last year, it seems so easy from just watching, but on the court it is a whole different level.

Andre Sa is playing close to his potential - maybe even above it.

I feel like, as long as you truly are a good player, then you can't go out and have a bad season.

Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature and experienced. So you just have to go with what they are rather than have some abstract technique that you're going to try to apply to them.

I really suck at 'Smash Brothers.'

Talent level, I feel like if I'm not the best, I'm one or two. I think it's just opportunity, the situation that you're in, and who's on your team. I think I've done all right.

Chess is similar to boxing. You need to develop a strategy, and you need to think two or three steps ahead about what your opponent is doing. You have to be smart. But what’s the difference between chess and boxing? In chess, nobody is an expert, but everybody plays. In boxing everybody is an expert, but nobody fights.

If a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant.

I can play the No. 1 player in the world in a pretty close match.

There is absolutely no way the best team in the NCAA could even dream of beating the worst team in the NBA? You're talking about men vs. boys.

I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

Men's is at a fast pace and focused on strength, whereas the women's is full of finesse and more skilful - and I think that's what the public have to associate with; male and female football is very different.

If I'm hitting 3-wood and everyone else is hitting driver, it's a level playing field. If I'm hitting driver straight, then I think I'm playing at a different level than everybody else.