No Second Place Quotes

#1. There is no doubt that man is a competitive animal and there is no place where this fact is more obvious than in the ring. There is no second place. Either you win or you lose. When they call you a champion, it's because you don't lose. To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body.

Rocky Marciano

#2. There is no second place in a gunfight. Winners kill, losers get killed. Fight to win. Train to live. v. All

Gary Williams

#3. There is no second place for doing first rate work.

Jeffrey Fry

#4. It was a death struggle every day being a Yankee you either won or you lost. There was no second place. Half of us were nuts by the end of a season.

Jerry Coleman

#5. Be the best. There is no second place.

Frank Beddor

#6. There are no second-place finishers - you don't take silver, you simply lose gold. Second place is nothing but the best loser - nobody lost better than the guy in second place. But on the battlefield that guy usually winds up dead.

Jamie Smith

#7. The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

Paul Johnson

#8. When I look at each of my brothers, I see two things. First, I see the next place I want to leave a rosy welt. Second, I see a good man who will always be there, no matter how hard life gets for me or him. Then, I get out of the way because I realize he's coming at me with a wet dish towel.

Daniel Pearce

#9. Natural selection awards no prize for second place.

Thomas Lewis

#10. No one remembers who took second place and that will neverbe me.

Enzo Ferrari

#11. Everyone's thought that: maybe even if, maybe we still could, maybe small bits of precious things can be salvaged. No one with cop-on thinks it after the first try. But her voice, quiet and sad, shimmering the air into those pearly colors: for a second I believed it, all over again.

Tana French

#12. He was smart, but he had to be smarter. No points for second place.

Kenneth Eade

#13. Surgery is always second best. If you can so something else, it's better. Surgery is limited. It is operating on someone who has no place else to go.

John W. Kirklin

#14. If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#15. There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing.

Gabe Paul

#16. My dad taught us that there's no greater distance than that between first and second place.

Janet Jackson

#17. It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.

Jeanette Winterson

#18. The Second Amendment has no place in modern society.

Alan Dershowitz

#19. Wasn't learning to lose gracefully part of your training?"
"No," she said sourly. "Arobynn told me that second place was just a nice title for the first loser.

Sarah J. Maas

#20. Well, she had her own sorry self, her own story, the snowflake of her life, but even as a child she had been unimpressed by the breathless adult observation that no two of these were exactly alike. In the first place, she had thought, how does anybody know that? And in the second place, so what?

Jincy Willett

#21. Have you been to a place where no one have been before? I give you the answer: Yes! Everywhere changes from one second to another and wherever you go, you will always be the first visitor!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#22. I do think that being the second [female Supreme Court Justice] is wonderful, because it is a sign that being a woman in a place of importance is no longer extraordinary.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#23. There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.

Vince Lombardi

#24. But there was no question in my mind that I was gonna still go for it. I was still going for the win. I wasn't skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that's probably what got me there.

Bode Miller

#25. Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.

Anthony Trollope

#26. There is no prize in sales for second place. It's win or nothing. The masters know this and strive for - they fight for - that winning edge.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#27. By choosing a woman to run for your nation's second highest office, you send a powerful signal to all Americans. There are no doors we cannot unlock. We will place no limits on achievement.

Geraldine Ferraro

#28. I'm going to ask the three executives here to raise their hand if they flew here commercial. Let the record show, no hands went up. Second, I'm going to ask you to raise your hand if you are planning to sell your jet in place now and fly back commercial. Let the record show, no hands went up.

Brad Sherman

#29. The problem is, there is no geographical cure. No matter where we (Black American Folk) go, we are still too plugged into this place. Our cousins, grandmothers, aunts, nieces will be in this place. And the second we start looking at it as a "them" problem, we become another problem.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#30. God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it
a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.

John Ruskin

#31. Oh, but I am quite resigned to taking second place in the shadow of my husband. I am humbly aware that the wife of a great man has to be contented with reflected glory - don't you think so Miss Taggart?"
"No," said Dagny, "I don't.

Ayn Rand