Substandard Quotes

What's an easier way to say 'bad?' Let's go with 'abysmal.'

We’re not very good at cutting things. We’re not even good at reducing things.

When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity.

It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.

The way you get a better world is, you don't put up with substandard anything.

Being number two sucks.

There is no perfect candidate.

Dreck is dreck and no amount of fancy polish is going to make it anything else.

I think the United States is way behind the times.

Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

Everything about mediocrity kills me.

Inoki is nothing but a third rater in my estimation.

Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

Nothing is ever perfect in the NBA.

Burroughs is crap. Crap.

… a raggedy-assed, 4th rate, little country

The movies were custard compared to politics.

When something is not good, it's bad. Period.

The last thing I want to do is to present something as 'Stephen King, Part II,' and have it be something that's a big disappointment.

You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.

There's too much bad. The worst is mediocre. Bad is easy. There's high quality, there's pornography, and then there's bad.

Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.

I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.