Sports Ranking Quotes

Baseball is the biggest sport in Japan, then soccer, and basketball is... People don't really care about basketball.

Kenyon Martin is the 2nd best player in the Eastern Conference.

You can be world champion, but ranked No 6 in the world, with there being four champions.

The people decide who's No. 1, the best in boxing.

Sachin Tendulkar is in my time the best player without doubt - daylight second, Brian Lara third.

I've been on a 1-15 team.

Any team that lets in 50 goals should never be in second position in the first place.

I love football, so there's nothing that's going to replace that. But golf, it's a second.

I don't know if he was the fourth man or the fifth, but he was certainly in the top 10.

I've never been in the top three of Sports Personality. And I won't be in the top three again. You have just got to accept what it is.

Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters.

I'm not the best player in the history of tennis. I think I'm amongst the best. That's true. That's enough for me.

I was a professional tennis player in my teens. I played mostly in Europe. I was top 10 in the world in juniors, and then I messed up my back. I had three herniated discs and that put a stop to it.

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

I rate the EPL a bit higher than the Bundesliga.

It needs to be said, over and over again, that Stan the Man was voted by 'The Sporting News' as the best baseball player of the postwar decade, from 1946 through 1955.

Coming out of high school, Ricky Town was the dude. He was going to SC; I was going to UCLA. He was No. 1 in the country; I was No. 2.

I'm an extra dark black belt in ping pong.

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

No disrespect to Gronk - Travis Kelce is the best tight end in football.

The press often ask me about Messi and Ronaldo and who is the best, but one thing for me is very clear. For me, the No. 1 is Andres Iniesta, because he is my team-mate for Spain, and I can see that he is able to do even more difficult things on the pitch.

I loved baseball, and I was the best at basketball. Golf was sort of third on my list.

Madrid are the greatest club in the world and a cut above Bayern.

Harvard has plenty of people that are way more important than football players.

It's no secret that I think that MLS is a top five, top six league in the world but they're not the top league.