Quotes About Rankings

#1. The Iron Child culture was contagious; it was hard for kids and parents to resist the pressure to study more and more. But all the while, they complained that the fixation on rankings and test scores was crushing their spirit, depriving them not just of sleep but of sanity.

Amanda Ripley

#2. I had set a goal with my team to try and get back to the top of the rankings, but I never thought with the depth in the game this year that I would have been able to get it back so quickly.

Roger Federer

#3. Rankings are not so important. I am only focused on winning tournaments.

Saina Nehwal

#4. I was elected by the Democrats to be chair of the Veterans Committee, which I'm very proud of. And now am the rankings member on the Budget Committee, leader of the Democrats in opposition to the majority Republicans.

Bernie Sanders

#5. When Yelp first took off, our rankings on Google would fluctuate wildly.

Jeremy Stoppelman

#6. An abundance mentality springs from internal security, not from external rankings, comparisons, opinions, possessions, or associations.

Stephen Covey

#7. I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.

Novak Djokovic

#8. The more games I will play, the faster I will be back on a top spot in the world rankings.

Jan Timman

#9. College rankings, though, are very different. The rankings simply don't measure what people think they measure: the educational experience for an individual student. Doing that requires a personalized look at a college through the eyes of a potential student.

Sally P. Springer

#10. There are excellent public interest grounds to have a search engine whose rankings are transparent.

Mitch Kapor

#11. If there were rankings for press conferences, I wouldn't have to worry about dropping out of the top five, I hope.

Andy Roddick

#12. If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.

Jim Courier

#13. When I release something, I'm like, "OK, I want it to be the best." When I release my fragrance, I want it to be the number one fragrance. I don't want it to be like, "Oh yeah, you got ninth on the rankings."

Justin Bieber

#14. At KaBOOM! we are crowd-sourcing a nationwide Map of Play that uses GIS data and user rankings to identify where the engaging playgrounds are located, but more importantly, where they are not.

Darell Hammond

#15. Google gives preference to its own products, so having a Google+ account influences your search rankings.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#16. Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind's pathetic and fruitless attempts at immortality.

Sarah Silverman

#17. In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I'll be worth a sentence or two ... That's why my place in the all-time rankings means so very little to me, because I know I won't be anybody's number one, and it's that same old thing: if you're not number one, then what does it really matter?

Billie Jean King

#18. We have to edge them out of the rankings. That will damage their futures. Permanently.

Veronica Roth

#19. It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.

Wendy Kopp

#20. The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball players.

Jim Courier

#21. As Trick points out, sports leagues aren't concerned with determining the rankings as quickly and expeditiously as possible. Instead, sports calendars are explicitly designed to maintain tension throughout the season, something that has rarely been a concern of sorting theory. For

Brian Christian

#22. Missouri remains a low tax, efficiently run state, according to all prominent national rankings.

Bob Holden

#23. Nobody should feel pain all by themselves.

Lemony Snicket

#24. I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

Oscar Niemeyer

#25. I remember my brother Nash had just directed me in 'The Square,' and I was sitting in Australia going: 'No one's called me about working for ages. I don't know if I'm ever going to get another job.'

Joel Edgerton

#26. A femtosecond is comparable to one second in 32 million years. It is like watching a 32-million-year movie to see one second.

Ahmed Zewail

#27. Cats. Furry little sociopaths that we invite into our homes.

Jenna Inouye