I want to show the world that we have the best fighters. Our motto is, 'Death is better than second place.' — Ramzan Kadyrov Copy Share Image
An ethical man survives in a bureaucratic post only if he puts his ethics in second place. — Gordon R Dickson Copy Share Image
It's only first place in NHL. Nobody remembers who's second place. Everyone remembers the winner. — Alexander Ovechkin Copy Share Image
“I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Being Number One isn't everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it's way ahead of whatever's in second… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
Play like you're the best, but practice like you're in second place. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly. — Ty Cobb Copy Share Image
A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give… — H. Jackson Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm of course jumping right in with the attitude that I can win the Eurovision Song Contest - or at least finish… — Saara Aalto Copy Share Image
I do not want to sign projects in which the depth and essence of my character takes second place and the focus… — Lisa Haydon Copy Share Image
The Mosaic religion had been a Father religion; Christianity became a Son religion. The old God, the Father, took second place; Christ,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if… — Gerd von Rundstedt Copy Share Image
When you decide to become an opera singer, it's a commitment that allows nothing else to interfere. Even your family - and… — Lucy Lawless Copy Share Image
There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
“Oh, but I am quite resigned to taking second place in the shadow of my husband. I am humbly aware that the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under… — John Von Neumann Copy Share Image
I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
There is no blacklist. In the first place, in the entertainment business, money talks, bullshit walks. So Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
I venture to claim two qualifications for the great office which I hold, which to my mind, without making invidious distinctions, is… — Joseph Chamberlain Copy Share Image
I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance of Björn… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“Chosen by God for this new life of love, I dress in the wardrobe He picked out for me: compassion, kindness, humility,… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Night after night in the '50s, I traveled all over New York City. The promoter had 10 acts, and the winner each… — Tiny Tim Copy Share Image
“This is the lesson history told me: when a religion gets so mired in bureaucracy that compassion takes second place to the… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
“Hey, hey, just a little scare.” Said Nico, backing away from a very guarded Katty. “Gotta get used to those if your… — Keira D. Skye Copy Share Image
I led by three or four feet, with Biggy (John Biglow) surging closer on each stroke. I hated him in those last… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
“There are several important remarks which can be made about this 'absolute emptiness' and 'absolute nothingness'. First of all, we now know,… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“Pastor Jón: The Úa who came is not the one who went away. Because in the first place Úa cannot go away,… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I… — Claude Shannon Copy Share Image
“The period of general neglect of Eliot's poetry was one in which a revolution was occurring in the theory of interpretation. Existentialist,… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“Let me say to you sisters that you do not hold a second place in our Father's plan for the eternal happiness… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“The great fault of modern democracy -- a fault that is common to the capitalist and the socialist -- is that it… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
If you undermine people's confidence, they turn up at the contest trying to get second place. — Dorian Yates Copy Share Image
Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close. — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
In my career, I finished in second place six times. I played on teams that were in it to the very end.… — Dave Martinez Copy Share Image
I think second place is always the most difficult one. It's not a nice feeling. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
