Top 420 Pretty Good Quotes

I love to try and cook. I’m pretty good, but I’m not saying I’m great.

You just don’t wake up one morning and say, ‘I’m going to be a talker. I’m going to be a braggart.’ It’s something you achieve over the years, and you get better at it. Obviously, I’ve gotten pretty good at it.

In the ’80 Olympics… people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.

I never actually had a guitar lesson. I taught myself the guitar from piano exercise books, which led me to have a pretty good technique on the guitar and allowed me to find different ways to do things.

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.

I’m not greedy – I have a pretty good life. I don’t have an expensive lifestyle, so I can make my living teaching classes at my gym.

I do love my country. I don’t think I’m particularly a good American. I don’t know what makes a good American. Other than somebody who – I like people who let other people alone. I think that’s a pretty good American. And I keep my hands to myself. So I’m an OK American.

I ran back punt returns and kickoff returns, and I played a pretty good game.

I think I’m just a comedian who’s a pretty good con man, and I don’t see that changing any time soon.

When you’re an established name, you know that a children’s book will have a pretty good chance of getting picked up. Like Madonna. It’s not that I had this great idea. Actually, in my case, it was a great idea.

There’s hardly anything I’ve ever done that’s made me cringe; I’ve got pretty good pitch, for a start, so I’m not known for hitting bum notes.

My health had always been pretty good.

It’s hard to live up to the expectations. Besides that, I think I had a very good NBA career, and I’m proud of it. I might not have been an absolute monster, but I thought I did pretty good.

By the end of my first year at the Dogs, we’d won the competition, and I’d played some pretty good footy.

I read ‘Twilight’ when I was overseas. I actually liked it. I didn’t expect to, because I generally don’t like fantasy like that because it’s far-fetched, but I liked it. It’s pretty good.

I’m lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there’s a pretty good chance you’ll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.

I went to high school in Virginia Beach, Va., and we had these guys – they were surfers. They didn’t like me, never talked to me. And if they didn’t like you, they threw toothpicks at you. After I did a play, it was different. I found out I was pretty good at something.

I think every basketball player I know loves ping pong. Everyone played in on the Dream Team. I played Clyde Drexler and Chris Mullin and even David Stern once. David Stern saw I was pretty good.

I have a pretty good record of winning in court.

God’s been pretty good to me. He made me duck all those punches that were supposed to land.

I think my level of cuisine was pretty good even before I came to France, but it’s the wine here that’s really improved my palette – when I have it, anyway. It’s meant to be good for you, right?

Attention to detail – Sherlock certainly has that, and my memory is pretty good – but not as good as his.

There’s feelings there, but I think I’ve just been pretty good at trying to hide my emotions throughout the years. I try to have the same demeanor each and every day.

I thought I was a pretty good shortstop, but I also wanted to play in the major leagues.

They say Montenegrins are intelligent, and maybe that’s why I was pretty good in school.

I was a pretty good kid. Just loud. Loud in the house. Loud everywhere.

My favorite change is taking traction control away and launch control, because my starts are pretty good, I think, and I make always some places up in the start and I think that will be great if that comes back to the driver’s hand.

Yes, I’ve had some pretty good luck finding wonderful talent.

There was a period in my life when I was trying to write standards: songs that everybody recorded. I did a pretty good run of it.

In Formula 1, you need a great level of endurance because the races are long, so you need a pretty good base endurance.

There’s a pretty good chance that you’re going to go down when you’re on a motorcycle or if you’re sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven’t sky dived since.

I’m a pretty good drawer. I have trouble painting because you literally have to wait for the paint to dry. I’m disciplined, but I’m not patient.

I mean, defending isolations is easy, but it’s hard at the same time. I think I’m a pretty good defender, but when you go against guys that can make tough shots, it makes you feel so bad, like, ‘Oh, man, these guys just made a tough shot on me.’

So I studied a lot with the balloon, and in learning how to sing with other musicians and keep in time – that’s all by touch. A lot of that I feel in my body, and growing up with hearing I have pretty good muscle memory, and I was born with near perfect pitch.

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don’t speak the language!

In sixth grade I had a band called The Blueberry Waterfall. I had borrowed a guy’s Fender Jaguar and Boss Tone Fuzz, which you plugged straight into a Blackface Twin. It was a little power trio – we were actually pretty good for our age.

‘The Duellists’ won Cannes, but Paramount didn’t know how to release a film about two guys in bizarre breeches, waving swords around. I actually think it’s a pretty good Western.

I think we did a pretty good role, linking, being a sounding board really and a driving force, especially from the bottom up. I think that part of this is bottom up as well as top down.

I think the greatest hip-hop artist of all time is Jay-Z, without a doubt. He just keeps amazing me with his performance, and since ’96, that guy has been producing at least one hit every summer and every winter. That’s a pretty good resume.

I think it’s a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger.

From a young age, I was a pretty good listener, a strong lady. Maybe it helped me that I never felt intimidated by anybody. Even at school, I was always strong. I believed in myself, in what I do.

I feel like I don’t hit the radio button ever – or not enough, even on the good stuff. I do shout some stuff when I’m mad at myself, but I’m pretty good about not hitting the radio button.

You know what, I was one of the top 25 amateurs in the world. I had a pretty good college career.

A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, ‘You’re a pretty good writer and you should probably get these published; when you grow up and write a novel, get in touch.’

The E.U. has its weaknesses, but it’s been pretty good for us, and it’s been pretty good for Europe, and it’s kept peace.

I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn’t have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world, have some adventures and then write about them.

I certainly am the first to acknowledge where I don’t have strengths, but I think I’m pretty good at acknowledging where I do.

To do that I try and keep myself in pretty good shape physically and I try to lead my life in such a way that I’ll be able to be as strong at the end of the movie as I am in the beginning.

The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.

I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she’s pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do.

I’m pretty good at saying no to things, at discerning between what I’m supposed to do and what I’m not supposed to do.

During the seven years that I worked as a management consultant, I spent a lot of time trying to look older than I was. I became pretty good at furrowing my brow and putting on somber expressions.

I was following my muse and I was very fortunate in having good people around me and it turned out to be a pretty good recording in my opinion.

I’ve put in 63 years now in the big leagues as a player, coach, manager. And now just being around these young guys, it keeps you going pretty good.

I’ve always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they’re basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I’d make for you at home.

Dude, I throw a stick. Come on. I get paid a pretty good salary to throw a stick.

My worst days are still pretty good days. That’s something I might lose in the moment sometimes, but I have a pretty good grasp of it.

Everything is pretty good in my life, and like everybody else, things happen, and you put your head down and solve challenges.

Thankfully, God blessed me with some legs that move pretty good, and we also get to wear pads, so I should be alright.

I think ISIS is achieving the objectives that they have set out to achieve. I think that they feel probably very emboldened. They feel pretty good. Their resiliency is extraordinary.