Top 35 Ranking Quotes

The ranking never lies.

My house has too many distractions. There’s the email. There’s checking my Amazon ranking. I know I’m the only author who’s ever done that, ever. There’s the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write.

I’ve never really focused on my ranking per se because it’s out of my control. I try and do the right thing each week, and the ranking will look after itself.

I felt a ton of pressure in ’08. A lot of great things were expected of me right out of the gate, and I brought some of that on myself with those great early results. But I wasn’t a good enough player to make a run every fourth or fifth tournament. I wasn’t as good a player as my ranking indicated.

What’s certain is that ranking powerful people is inherently self-defeating. For starters, true potentates know who they are without being told, and they have no need to announce it.

If I had to choose between a third Wimbledon title and the number one ranking, I would choose Wimbledon. The ranking just shows how you’re doing in the year, so I think the Slams are first, and it shows in the number anyway.

My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues.

Being world No 1 would be fantastic but you’d like to do it by finishing the year as No 1 without anything happening off the table to someone else’s ranking.

You can focus on the ranking events but I do miss the Premier League because it’s massive.

I’m not in the business of ranking or debating who is what.

I am the best in the world. It’s 1: Cody; 2: Kenny; 3: Okada; 4: Charlotte; 5: Cena, with Ospreay creeping up on the list. It’s my responsibility with the event to live up to that ranking. I am unbelievably good at this because of hard work and dedication.

If I hadn’t won at the Worlds and claimed so many ranking points, I would have been struggling for Rio. I’m in a good place now, though, and having the chance to fight for gold in Rio after everything I’ve been through would be a dream.

I finished three years ranked No. 1, so the ranking doesn’t matter anymore.

You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.

All I want is to win matches, and the ranking sooner or later will come.

The truth matters, and despite my objection to the creation of the Select Panel, as its Ranking Member, I will do all I can to ensure that as long at it continues, it will be as fair, transparent and objective as possible.

I try to focus on more winning matches here and try to go forward rather than the ranking because is the first step, to win matches, getting far in tournament, and we see after.

I don’t know how their ranking goes or anything else, and I tell people I don’t really care how the rankings go.

In golf, you definitely have your ranking. But it’s a bit different than tennis. Whenever there’s a golf tournament, you feel like almost anyone can win.

My objective has always been to get better, no matter where my ranking is.

I’ve gone through a lot to get here. I’m doing my job. And that No. 1 ranking next to my name says I’m doing my job better than a good percentage of everyone else.

Now quantitatively we rank things on something called alpha over standard deviation, which is the return independent of the market divided by volatility. Usually, to get a high ranking, you need some buying pressure.

Young people are choosing cities before the country – they have their own ranking.

When we get people to log in, they end up using Quora a lot more, and we can provide a lot better experience for them. We can show them a personalized news feed; we can send them digest emails and do all this ranking to find some stuff they want to read.

There’s this index that tallies up how much your movies have made, and if they haven’t grossed a certain amount, then you’re not bankable. I know I’m not Will Smith but, you know, my ranking’s pretty low. The only studio picture I’ve done is ‘Zodiac,’ and that didn’t perform that well.

It’s a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.

I expected social rank to be the determining factor in health, and in some ways that’s true. But far more important is what sort of society that rank occurs in. Being low ranking in a benevolent troop is a hell of a lot better for your blood pressure than being low ranking in an aggressive troop.

In 2006 it was a horrible election year, and, you know, I lost. But I lost because I continued to be a constant conservative, and the last six years I was someone who was a national figure in the sense that I was the third ranking Republican in leadership and I had just run President Bush’s campaign in Pennsylvania.

I’m the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well.

As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states define the status of territories under their sovereignty.

Of course my family and friends are incredibly valuable to me. They keep me sane, they teach me things and I love spending time with them. I think that ranking what you value is a sort of western and linear way of looking at things.

I’m not really focused on my ranking.

I look to constantly be a better version of myself every time I step out on court. That has come out with some good wins and good things on paper, but if my ranking were to drop or to rise, it wouldn’t affect my goals or how I want to keep improving.

There is no news media. There’s simply a bunch of people on television and in newspapers who are ranking members of the Democrat Party.

My long-term goal is to get as high as possible in the rankings, and to improve my game each day. If I am able to do that, my ranking should get better and better.