Second Best Quotes

106 quotes by 98 authors

I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series. — Tommy Lasorda
Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible. — Bertrand Russell
If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem. — Julius Erving
People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one. — Florence Griffith Joyner
Why be second best at anything? — Paul Heyman
They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that. — Kevin Keegan
When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What I look for is a man who can be a friend, someone who is an equal and one with whom I feel comfortable. I… — Jennifer Aniston
No matter what you do, give it everything you have. Be the best, not the second best. — Michael Jackson
When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best. — Edward Abbey
For me, the international expansion of eBay was the best idea. We are now in 35 countries, and have a huge global network. The second… — Meg Whitman
I was the second-best player in high school. I was the second pick in the draft. I've been second in the MVP voting three times.… — Kevin Durant
Well, it used to be Kobe Bryant...the second best all time...now, I have a new favorite player to play against...my former teammate, LeBron James. — Dwyane Wade
Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best, I put before you what I have found to be… — Eric Liddell
It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them. — Hilaire Belloc
Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say. Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of… — William Butler Yeats
Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first. — Carl Yastrzemski
Of course, music is an art form, and it's not all that competitive. But we don't ever intend to be the second-best band on a… — Tom Morello
The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do. — David Weber

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