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Sometimes being young and confident is better than being old with experience ... when I was young I wasn't scared about anything — Thierry Henry

I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you write basketball better than you play it." — Frank Deford

I thought everybody else was doing much better than I was. — Caitlyn Jenner

I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us — B.B. King

I felt how much better and more dignified it was for me to show off the finer side of my soul than of my body. — Leo Tolstoy

I'm a much better coach than I was six years ago. — Steve Mariucci

At age 10, I was better at ballet than I think I will ever be at any physical activity for the rest of my life. — Katie Findlay

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis. — Sally Ride

I thought I was in a better position to get a team than anyone else in Houston. — Bob McNair

It was the first time that I had ever been romantically kissed. It was even better than the chocolate cake. — Richard Paul Evans

I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career. — Caroline B. Cooney

Your name
fit into my mouth
better than my own ever has.

Like I was
born to speak it. — Darshana Suresh

And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others. — Ralph Ellison

Oddly enough, MS has made my life so much better than it was before. I now appreciate what I have and I am not running around like a rat in a maze. — Teri Garr

No, I do not like music. (But what she really was trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.) — Jonathan Safran Foer

I subscribed to the general theory that the worst room in the best hotel was better than the best room in a second-rate hotel. — Beatriz Williams

My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman. — Tracy Morgan

I was whole in and of myself, but better than whole with him. — Amy Plum

It was better than the fantasy, Rook. I'd just like you to know that. — J.A. Huss

It's the closet thing to bliss
I've ever experienced.
It's even better than performing and
I didn't know that was possible. — Kristen Proby

But he spoke English better than I, he having mastered it, whereas I was only born to its careless use. — Talbot Mundy

I actually feel, in a lot of ways, that I'm in better shape than I was when I was 30. — Tom Bergeron

I pretended he was my brother, only he was better than a brother because I chose him and he chose me.
- Rosie — Sharon Creech

I think I'm better than I was in my younger days, because I'm exploring deep lyrical material, and I've been sober for a while now. — Glenn Hughes

When I was younger, I was always a musician that could play by ear better than I could analytically. — Stephen Bruner

I knew what it was like to be poor, and that once you had become rich, anything was better than being poor again. — Belinda Alexandra

It seems like I have more in common - or hit it off better - with rappers than fools that are in rock music. It was always natural for me. — Travis Barker

Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was. — Placido Domingo

I really don't want to win. I just want to improve and be better than I was. — Debasish Mridha

Isolation was better than shame. I would continue on my own. This was my fight and no one else — Robin Hobb

I've always thought that having an attractive free agent is better than a guy who was picked in the seventh round. — David Dunn

I'd donated everything I was to those I loved. I would die for them. I would survive for them. And nothing was better than that. Nothing. — Pepper Winters

I will be better in Monte Carlo than I was in Phoenix. If I can't win maybe I will lead 50 laps. — Jean Alesi

I can't wait to shock the doubters and prove I'm better and stronger than I was before. — Derrick Rose

I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck. — Corey Haim

I was basically good. Not understood, and not even liked, but even so, just, and better than just. I was merciful. — Maya Angelou

I was able to concentrate and focus better on the day I was born than Max is able to even today. — Matthew Dicks

I thought seeing him naked was the highlight of my life. That suit was better than sex. — Nicole Castle

My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won. — Betty Cuthbert

Forgiveness took time, I decided. It was a process. Better to start slowly than not at all. — Becca Fitzpatrick

I was drinking a cup of tea. I actually enjoyed tea. It was so much better than coffee. It tasted like comfort. — Matt Haig

My life is so much better than I thought it was going to be. — Mary Gordon

I tried to focus on the question and not the fact his cooking was better than the majority of the intimate relationships I had been in. — Kate Danley

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension. — Herschel Walker

Writing was what I did best, better than being a daughter or girlfriend or sister. Writing was me. But now writing is one of the things I can't do. — Jennifer Niven

So, as I was saying, guys and girls can be friends.
Best friends.
And what's better than falling in love with your best friend?
Nothing. — Elizabeth Eulberg

You look ... better than before."
Was that a compliment? I could have sworn Lucien gave Tamlin an encouraging nod.
"And you hair is ... clean. — Sarah J. Maas

In Music Through the Eyes of Faith, Harold Best defines excellence as "the process of becoming better than I once was. — Bob Kauflin

The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way. — Carl Andre

LEXI: I'd settled for this awful existence because I'd convinced myself it was better than being alone.

...But it's not. — T.S. Joyce

I've become better at the net. I've got a 135 mph serve so I'd be stupid not to follow that in. Overall I'm a better player than I was last year. — Andy Roddick

I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor. — Jonathan Frakes

No one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I've had a crush on him since I was a teenager. — Dolly Parton

You have been good for me. What more could anyone ask for? I'm a better person than I was before we got together. That's your doing. — Kent Haruf

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it. — G.K. Chesterton

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. — Glenda Jackson

You think our mam likes you better than me?" challenged whichever one was the other. (Don't blame me. I've lost track too.) — John Flanagan

I'm probably better than I ever was in my career, as far as the mental aspect of the game. — Michael Vick

I knew I wasn't that good a writer, and all I could remember was that I could draw. I'm better at drawing than I am at writing. — Claes Oldenburg

The only woman I have to be better than is the one I was yesterday...I have no competition. — Dawn Jasper

Anything was better than playing cards, and I was doing something I wanted to do creating. — Mary Martin

I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was before. Or so I tell myself; and for now that is enough. — Andrew Davidson

He was beautiful in a way that hurt me, but it was the sweetest pain I ever knew, better even than the scars I took on my naming day. — Ann Aguirre

He had a point, but I wasn't sure it was much better than Elora's. She worked more of a con job, and Oren proposed outright theft. — Amanda Hocking

I was nine when I figured out it's better to be respected than liked. — A.D. Aliwat

My kids are so much better parent than I was. — Dick Van Dyke

I was for a minor amount of time but I was probably a better pianist at 15 than I am now. — Josh Silver

He helps make me be the best person I can be. that's how I knew that he was the one. I'm better with him than I was without him. — Selena Laurence

The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto. — Ozzy Osbourne

I know you deserve better than me. You think I don't know that? But if there was any woman made for me ... it's you. — Jamie McGuire

Toying with this supervillain was kind of fun. Much better than my usual experience with them, which usually involved lots of blood and pain. I — Laura Thalassa

You're better than any dream I've ever had."
His smile was slow, sexy, devastating. "You are every dream I've ever had — Rebecca Zanetti

I did so much theater, where everybody I worked with was so much better than me, that I just sort of learned. — Kurt Fuller

Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid. — Chris Bauer

No time better than the present,' I always say. Or was that, 'Nothing is better than a present'? I forget. — Kaza Kingsley

I had finally learned that it was better to be alone than to be in a relationship that degraded my soul. — Chrissy Moon

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face. — Leonard Cohen

Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English. — Iman

I don't think that money makes you any better brought up than I was. — Shayne Ward

That was what I wanted: someone who knew me better than I knew myself, someone who knew all the worst parts of me, yet still loved me. — L.A. Fiore

I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own. — Bruce Springsteen

The way I measure my life is 'Am I better than I was last year?' — Satya Nadella

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'. — Carla Bley

I used to laugh at that old wheeze about a man wanting his son to be better than he was, but as I get older it seems less funny and more true. — Stephen King

I've seen it all before. Now that it's over I shoulda known better than to think this was real and you could be mine. — Drake

I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was. — Rick Springfield

I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh. — Alan Bradley

Whoever was shouting about dictatorship there ... when I heard that, I thought: it's better to be a dictator than gay — Alexander Lukashenko

He was such a fabulous drama coach. What better person to have than Alfred Hitchcock? His work as a director was impeccable. I learned so much. — Tippi Hedren

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker. — Lisa Ling

I had gone through life thinking that I was better than everyone else and at the same time, being afraid of everyone. I was afraid to be me. — Dennis Wholey

I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was. — James Brown

I didn't like being alone. Being alone was slightly better than having to deal with people, that's all. Or so I'd convinced myself. — Lauren Myracle

I've worked with actors who were very helpful and a lot better than I was. — Diane Kruger

When I was a kid watching "The Blues Brothers," I could not think of a better thing than watching 300 cop cars crash into each other. — Will Forte

I just thought it was better to be Pete Best than Linda McCartney — Justine Frischmann

I now knew that all of us were prostitutes who sold themselves at varying prices, and that an expensive prostitute was better than a cheap one. — Nawal El Saadawi

I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport. — Ryan Lochte

The only way to consistently perform at your potential is to ask: Am I better than I was yesterday? — Chris Matakas

MarkBaynard: I figured out in the first grade that it was better to crack a joke than somebody's skull. — Teresa Medeiros