Average Quotes

A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.

You can't go out and practice average on Wednesday, average on Thursday, okay on Friday and then expect to play well on Sunday.

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.

The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.

The difference between average and good. Good and Great! Great and Phenomenal! It's their mindset!

In our lives, on average, we will be asleep for a total of 8,477 days. If we're lucky, some of that time will be sleeping next to someone we love.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average.

The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women

I will not be labelled as average.

Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don't be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good. Get rid of being average. Find the killer in you.

There is no average reason for a person getting involved in racing.

Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage.

As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.

Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time.

What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.

I, uh, don't think I'm, y'know, so different than your average, y'know, average.

You can be a great model, an average one, or a bad model. You may think it doesn't matter to you, but it does to the Lord.

I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.

I'm afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker.

For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we could have something like a revolution in a very short time.

Uber is efficiency with elegance on top. That’s why I buy an iPhone instead of an average cell phone, why I go to a nice restaurant and pay a little bit more. It’s for the experience.

I was criticized for being too much concerned with the average Canadians. I can't help that; I am one of them!

In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.

All the pressure I have is from myself. I have a lot of pressure inside me. I wanna be great. I don't wanna be average.

I'm used to being efficient and a guy that can do more than the average guy can.

A decade after an average athlete graduates, everyone will have forgotten when and where he played. But every time he speaks, everyone will know whether he was educated.

All the average human being asks is something he can call a home; a family that is fed and warm; and now and then a little happiness; once in a long while an extravagance.

The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.

You have to be prepared for people to hate you. Average people love to be average, because nobody bothers them.

I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.

On average, when you ask someone to perform a task on a site, they cannot do it. It's not their fault; it's the designer's fault.

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

I believe that the average person can help a lot, not by giving material goods but by participating, by being part of the discussion, by being truly concerned about what is going on in the world.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

It is foolhardy to make a second trade, if your first trade shows you a loss. Never average losses. Let this thought be written indelibly upon your mind.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to get insulted.

Last time I checked, there is no 'Hall of Average.'

Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas

And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

It's like a crapshoot in Las Vegas, except in Las Vegas the odds are with the house. As for the market, the odds are with you, because on average over the long run, the market has paid off.

You can't run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy economy?

the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

Remember, half the people you know are below average.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.