Second Best Quotes
106 quotes by 98 authors
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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
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The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
— Tommy Lasorda
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Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
— Bertrand Russell
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If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem.
— Julius Erving
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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
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Why be second best at anything?
— Paul Heyman
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They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that.
— Kevin Keegan
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When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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
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No matter what you do, give it everything you have. Be the best, not the second best.
— Michael Jackson
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When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.
— Edward Abbey
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
— Hilaire Belloc
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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
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Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.
— Carl Yastrzemski
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Second Best Quotes
98 authors contributed a total of 106 Second Best Quotes, led by these top contributors: