Average Ability Quotes

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Don't do anything that you're already not great at doing.

Guardiola has never been a great player; he was just a good player.

Entrepreneurship can be taught to people with average academic abilities - the proof of that is everywhere you look.

I was a pretty mediocre player.

I was an average student. Not a dunce. Used to play for the school football team.

I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.

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

I've got a high-school swing. I know that. But you know what? It's good enough to get a ball in play.

My secret is being not terrible at a lot of things.

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

Most people can do nothing at all well

I wouldn't say that I'm a jack-of-all-trades, master of none, but I wouldn't say that I'm brilliant at any.

I don't have a superpower.

I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.

Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it.

We don't need the best and the brightest. We need people of average competence and good character.

A middling talent makes for a more serene life.

Apart from the fact that I can move the bike fast, I am basically Joe Average.

I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.

I was in school for jazz voice, which is the dumbest way to spend $35,000 a year. I just felt like a rip-off of good jazz singers. I didn't feel like I was being anything special, and I always wanted to be special. It's like you know you have something inside you that's gonna make you different than everybody else and make you somebody in this life, but you wish you could figure out what it is, because at most things, you're either mediocre or really, really bad.

Remember, half the people you know are below average.

I'm not particularly gifted; I'm not genetically freakish in any sense; I'm absolutely average.

Sure, I can sing a country song, but so can a lot of people.