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"Powerlifting and weightlifting often get lumped together as these two barbell sports, but they're always being compared and contrasted."
"Take the best players of the '80s and '90s and could they compete in today's League? Absolutely."
"I watch that Anthony Edwards dunk and I say that might be better than any in-game dunk Jordan ever had."
"Esports will be in line with traditional sports viewership in 10 years."
"It's tougher to win seven rings in the NFL than it is to win six in the NBA."
"I hope that we get to see a team in our lifetimes where you actually think about whether you would pick the 2017 Warriors or that team."
"Salah doesn't get mentioned in the same conversations as Neymar or Mbappe."
"Every UFC event is thrown up high level. This is the Champions League of fight sports."
"His light shines about 95 percent as bright as Michael Jordan's did."
"He looked like the type of receiver Antonio Brown was."
"There has never been a day and there never will be a day that Harry Maguire is a better player than Rafael Varane."
"It's no secret that Michael was a more efficient scorer than Kobe Bryant."
"Patrick Mahomes is currently not on Tom Brady's level but he definitely is the closest person and he definitely has a chance to be."
"I watched him on tape... he reminded me of a combination of Harrison Smith and Eric Weddle."
"College in those days, with the Fab Five and UNLV, almost felt better than the NBA."
"Do you believe what do you think is better, Bill Russell or me?"
"He's a better version of Xhaka, with better ability."
"If the esports world can say... we're going to be non-corruption free... they're going to surpass anything in traditional sport."
"You can't really rank one versus another from different eras. It's kind of like comparing Michael Jordan and LeBron James. I think it's just an unfair comparison to make."
"I don't want CS to be baseball. It cannot survive as baseball. Baseball can barely survive. It's doing alright."
"The Premier League is currently better than La Liga."
"LeBron did not dominate the NBA the way Jordan did, objectively speaking."
"Yo, this guy's the left-handed Kevin Garnett!"
"He looks like he plays better than Wiggins and more athletic."
"Kevin Durant is a better player than Kawhi Leonard."
"The Rams' Hemi offense is chugging along, it's really been looking much more like their Super Bowl season than it looked like what we saw last year."
"Ronaldinho or prime Keane? Totally different players. You know I'm not one to compare players that are very different players."
"Thierry Henry is miles ahead of Suarez. Miles and miles ahead."
"This is exactly the start you need to have to even get in the conversation with Tom Brady."
"Gaming has become the largest sport in the world." - Crypto Stash
"This is a team that is right there with the Dallas Cowboys."
"The barrier of entry in esports is smaller compared to traditional sports."
"The most powerful fighter of all time versus the most technical fighter of all time."
"He's as close to an Allen Robinson replacement as you're gonna get."
"But I don't thought he was Iverson trying to step over the uh I mean Paul."
"A fighter destined to become the mixed martial arts equivalent of Michael Jordan."
"Tennis ain't as violent as football, not even close."
"He was one of the toughest basketball players. He was like AI back in the day."
"He makes me think of Dan Marino in his days."
"Everybody can't be like Dame and Book and CP and all the guys. Everybody can't be like that. You know, I just try to find my way."
"NFL gets more viewers in one game than NBA gets in five games combined."
"If Jalen Waddell is this year's Henry rugs, then Devante Smith is this year's Jerry duty."
"He's got a composure which reminds me a little bit of a John Stones; he could be a very good acquisition for a Premier League team." - Dara O'Shea, West Bromwich Albion
"You can't treat Messi different to Gabby Blanglahore because Messi's a go to the game."
"You can't ever in your life say some [ __ ] like James Harden is a better offensive player than Michael Jordan."
"I honestly believe that when we look back at all the careers of Arsenal players, Saka will be put above Jack Wilshere, Ashley Cole, Tony Adams..."
"When it comes to winning, the check mark clearly goes to Jordan."
"I'm sorry, but for me, there is no comparison."
"Kobe is John Wick, and LeBron is like James Bond."
"Kobe was really one of the best - almost like the Michael Jordan of our generation."
"All those names there, just the weight class there, it's like the welterweights hit with Mike Tyson up there."
"As a winger, Salah actually is. So we're not having a go at Aubameyang for not... He still does amazing on the wing."
"Prime Cam on the 49ers right now, Prime cam with the dolphins right now, that would be a better product than Tua and Brock P and everybody knows that."
"This is much closer to real rock climbing and especially real free soloing. He's moving exciting more methodically, he's placing his feet carefully, he's you know, moving with intention."
"This is a much better game already than Manchester United against Leeds, which was terrible."
"This guy literally looks like a meaty ass rugby player beside a soccer player."
"Tom Brady was the Michael Jordan of the NFL."
"Their rebuild has gone a lot quicker than our Tuchel's, that's for sure."
"Salford City technically now a better Club than Manchester United."
"This matchup, it has to be the best matchup of all time."
"It changed my career. I was like, 'Oh,' because I was like, 'Yo, this regular season thing is just like...this is not as fun. This is not as competitive and as fun as it was in college.'"
"NFL is like a nine out of 10 movie every single time, college is like you could be watching a five out of 10 then it's an 11 out of 10 out of nowhere."
"Bud spence will go just like spence versus brooke."
"Jordan was simply better at beating tougher teams."
"As much as I love Kobe, he wasn't as good as Jordan, and LeBron for damn sure ain't better than Jordan."
"Neymar is like 10 times the level of Aubameyang."
"Fitzpatrick: Better than Brady in the season finale."
"When you're talking about goats, there are legitimate categories for all these guys."
"It's hard to say who's the best football player, just like who's the goat in the NBA."
"I think Varane's absolutely twice the player Harry Maguire is."
"Competitive eating is actually more akin to the original sports of the original Olympics."
"We had a fight about whether swimming or football was a more difficult sport."
"Kyrie Irving is the modern day Muhammad Ali not LeBron James or Colin Kaepernick."
"I actually think England have got a better team than Manchester United in international terms."
"Messi offers more and brings more out of people than Cristiano Ronaldo."
"Avengers infinity war is the nerd equivalent of the world cup or roughly four Super Bowls."
"Azir: the Michael Jordan of League of Legends champions, dominating every aspect of the game."
"Halliburton versus killian hayes, I just like Halliburton more. I think he's a safer pick. Halliburton's more ready to play."
"Bernie is Michael Jordan or LeBron James, Elizabeth Warren is Tracy McGrady."
"Stefan Struve is the only person in the division that can rival the reach of Jon Jones."
"If in three fights, Max Holloway is not able to rack up a win, I think we would have an answer on who the better fighter is."
"There's a big difference between Kim Min Jae and Kane. Kim Min Jae should be wearing a Man United shirt."
"If I had to pick between LeBron and Kobe I would concede that LeBron is the better player."
"For a Belgium team that's in his golden generation, for about his last hurrah as well, I wasn't getting Argentina energy in Messi's last hurrah or there was none of that."
"Are the Eagles this year's edition of last year's Vikings yeah but way more embarrassing."
"Just one step towards the situation and things that you actually want to do."
"This fight will look like an easier version of the Gaethje fight."
"Front end game is Conor McGregor, backend game is Khabib."
"He's got the size over Volkanovsky. This is a freaking great fight that I don't even think is getting the pub that it needs."
"His ascension was comparable to Mike Tyson's."
"Sports analogies make it easier to understand."
"That England Columbia game was like a f****** movie, like it really was that dramatic."
"Did your college football opening day have the same energy as this Donald Trump rally?"
"Season 3 for me is the first step that Riot takes to make this game be like a real sport."
"I've never seen anything like Kevin Durant. He's better than LeBron James, especially at this age and stage of LeBron's career."
"That [ __ ] Will Chamberlain was playing against [ __ ] who was dribbling the ball like this around the court."
"When you talk about goats, I tend to lean towards the one that does not have a blemish on their record."
"Lamello is better than Carmelo, simple. He hit 50 40 90."
"Comparing Theo Walcott to Messi? That's like comparing a walnut to a brain made of ready brick."
"He's pretty much the new LeBron, I mean if either you know make my guess he's the new LeBron of the league okay."
"Giannis has gone on record to say you're his WNBA comp."
"Kobe was on a different level, there's no comparison."
"54 points for Jay Rich, but Shaq had 41 and 22."
"I think Duncan definitely had the greater career."
"Hockey players are tougher than football players. They take a punch, take a skate to the face, almost die and they still play."
"He's a good defender, but he's not better than Christensen, Diego Godin, or even Victor Lindelof."
"Harland is beating Benzema with fifty-five percent."
"MMA fighters have a more diverse set of skills to win a real fight than boxers."
"You can't compare Benzema to Kane, different conversations."
"It puts the yankee red sox to shame... it's just a whole other level you gotta check it out."
"If Holland keeps scoring in every game, yo we might have our very own version of Erling Haaland."
"I think the women's division is so much better than the men's at the moment."
"Floyd is 50 and oh six time world champion versus an amateur who never done it before."
"That 3.9 million viewers is more than the Indianapolis 500 drew in last week."
"No player in today's NBA is wired like Michael Jordan, but Kobe is the closest."
"Chris Jones is like the defensive Patrick Mahomes... just beat everyone."
"Last year, we were closer to Man City... Why were we closer to Man City last year than we are now?"
"The little difference between the Bulls and the Warriors is that that Bulls team had Jordan coming off two seasons where they didn't win it."
"The last emperor makes the rest of these fighters look like a bunch of high-strung chain smokers pacing around."
"Tyson Fury is to boxing what Jon Jones should have been to MMA. His fallen resurgence has been nothing short of phenomenal."
"Nobody gets to be Tom Brady or Peyton Manning when Patrick is both of them."
"We said before, can the second eleven play like the first eleven? And you have to be better against Norwich than the last lads."
"Wrestling is not a sport in the sense that basketball is... It's crazy over-the-top characters, flashy colors, special moves."
"Messi, eat your heart out. It's Diogo Jota's time."
"Cyril Gane versus Derrick Lewis, sir. I mean, Rosenstrike vs. Derrick Lewis would be great too, but Cyril Gane to me is the real deal."
"Offensively it might be more prolific than Jason."
"Here's the thing we all agree on bro at 20 years old LeBron was better he was finishing second in League MVP voting Jordan was getting bounced in the sweet 16."
"Arteta's young Gunners might still be away from challenging for the title, but they're closer than Manchester United and Chelsea."
"This is a guy who was nicknamed baby Tron for his similarities to Calvin freaking Johnson."
"If he's able to defeat Khabib in the rematch, suddenly now he starts to become the UFC version of Muhammad Ali."
"Juan Soto... is he the best player overall in Major League Baseball?"
"It's like how LeBron and Kobe never played in the finals and people are still pissed about it."
"Saliba... He's been likened to Van Dyke and Vidic... He's a center-back in his own right."
"Francisco Alvarez, he has a chance to be the next Mike Piazza for the Mets"
"He's the Cristiano Ronaldo... historically I think he has been."
"I don't always like the comparison between rugby and football. I don't always like that, and I played both growing up, and it just wouldn't happen. Not in rugby, no it wouldn't happen."
"Overall, versatility-wise, Kevin Garnett brought more to the table and just offers slightly fewer weaknesses than Ben Wallace."
"Wayne Rooney should be discussed in the same way as Thierry Henry, Alan Shearer, Sergio Aguero - more so than all of them."
"When Wayne Rooney was a young kid, he was on the level of Ronaldo and Messi."
"We've never won anything and you compare that to Van Halen, Mourinho."
"On pure footballing ability, I don't think anyone in this list had more of it than Eden Hazard."
"Fnatic's ability to win from any position reminds me of the old NiP."
"So wow we're captivated by that in basketball it's the dunk not the three-pointer and the three-pointer tries to rival it."
"Israel is much faster and has the far superior wrestling and grappling."
"WWE legends are being used better on AEW than they are being in the WWE."
"There's just simply nothing left for him to do other than to try to catch Michael Jordan's ghost."
"By that point he would have played the same amount of seasons as Michael Jordan."
"He is better than Jesus, he would score more goals than Jesus."
"He's a different level of athlete than even the best guys in the UFC."
"It's a big fight between two big guys it's a great matchup and this is really where we get to see what DC's like you know as athlete pound-for-pound wise."
"Salah's having an unreal season. I wouldn't say Saka is having as good, but he's going nearly punch for punch on numbers."
"Zola was a genius, but Bergkamp was probably a better player."
"I think Jared Allen actually is a bigger winner than Evan Mobley."
"I tell you what, this shows to me, Sunderland are in the championship playoffs, Newcastle are what, eighth or ninth? The gap between the championship and the Premier League is getting bigger."
"There's more UFC fights than actual boxing fights that we watch on TV."
"Ryan Garcia was a different level of fighter."
"This is basically Jordan but minus the regular season awards."
"We're a relic, we're archaic, we're Jurassic Park football compared to what Liverpool and Man City do."
"I do see similarities... I think Leipzig could be the Ajax of the Champions League this season."
"To me, it's Rashford. Chelsea fans are going to go mad, they're going to go 'it's got to be Pulisic,' but for me, I'm not going to go with Pulisic. I'm going to go with Rashford."
"Jordan is ahead of the likes of Bill Russell and Kareem Abdul Jabar."
"The value of a champion Target Archer versus the value of a I guess you'd call it an influencer or something which I hate that phrase."
"Michael Jordan wouldn't join Larry Bird or Isaiah Thomas. Come on, Jay, where will you do that, man? Come on, homie, come on, man."
"This made sense to me. You know, value checked out. I had a first to a second round grade on him. I didn't really put this together until after he went to the ners, but I was like, you know what, there is a lot of Brandon Auk in his game."
"Players are constantly compared to their peers and to the legends of the past... who's the greatest to ever do it."
"The fans like this team, and they're, by the way, way more fun to watch than the Lakers."
"Without a doubt and everybody knows that at this point he is a better shooter than Michael Jordan in his career."
"I think Gareth Bale's there and the other two are just below like that, yeah. I'd go together, Bale's miles above the other two."
"The Steelers are not far off from the Bulls of the NFL."
"He's the Japanese Pedro Martinez."
"LeBron faced more Hall of Famers in the finals than Jordan."
"It's like LeBron James versus Kevin Durant but LeBron isn't really trying."
"The Sacramento Kings are the Cleveland Browns of the NBA."
"The Countryman SE All4... can beat most of your favorite muscle cars all while hauling the kids' baseball equipment in the back."
"I struggle to see many midfielders that are better than Richarlison at the moment."
"The 2018 London New Year's Day Parade had more spectators than the 2018 NFL Super Bowl."
"In terms of intensity, in terms of emotion, in terms of what's at stake here, the semi-finals draw parallels, at least to me, of the NFL playoffs."
"Soccer is the longest game played in the shortest amount of time."
"For all that we talk about Erling Haaland, for all that he's achieved in a very young career, he may one day become... but Lionel Messi continues to equal and exceed his own expectations."
"They are the best women in the world at soccer... and they could not beat a random academy team in Dallas full of 15-year-old boys."
"It's more exciting than Formula One, isn't it?"
"These football boots are both so good that they may even warrant their own dedicated comparison video."
"Benzema in Europe, bro, versus Aguero in Europe, Benzema wipes the floor with him."
"The Steelers are literally the NFL version of Manchester United."
"He looks like Travis Kelce... He plays quarterback at tight end."
"It is faster than every other sport, more physical than every other sport."
"He's the best outside linebacker in football, even better than Lawrence Taylor."
"Michael Parsons really is just... oh God, if you have Aaron Donald, there's Michael Parsons. He's just otherworldly amazing."
"He's gonna have a 10-year peak that's gonna combat any other player's 10-year peak, in my opinion."
"This season women's college basketball is better than men's college basketball."
"That's better than watching a football game, big facts there."
"When you compare these two guys' careers, it's not close."
"MJ never beat a team like the Spurs; he also never lost to a team like the Mavs."
"Steph is going to be the Babe Ruth of baseball for three-point shooting of basketball."
"It's a bit like watching the America's Cup Yacht Race, you don't know until they get to the next buoy who will actually be in front when they come together and go around the next buoy."
"Back in the 90s era, out of all the players, I would have to say was MJ. Now in this era, oh boy, I would have to say, and being honest, um, LeBron James."
"Prime Victor Oladipo was like an 87 in 2K, Prime Michael Jordan's a 99, Anthony Edwards like a 92, smack in the middle there."
"Basketball is more of a contact sport; football is a collision sport."
"That is almost three times as good as what the average top four player in the world was doing back then."
"They look at Marvin Harrison Jr and they see the next Larry Fitzgerald."