Top 100 Quotes About Second Place
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. I am tired of all these golfers who are happy with second place. The only one who will like you if you come in second place is your wife and your dog. And that is only if you have a good wife and a good dog.
Gary Player
#6. Second place is meaningless. You can't always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been - that you were never beaten - that time just ran out on you.
Vince Lombardi
#8. I don't like second place; I'm out there trying to win everything.
Tony Gonzalez
#9. A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#10. Lustful Desire (although 'twere rather fit To some brute creature to attribute it) Shall be presented in the second place, Because it shrouds a vile deformed face Beneath love's vizard, and assumes that name, Hiding its own fault with the other's blame.
George Wither
#11. There, as the sacred mysteries tell us, the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones occupy the first places; but, unable to yield to them, and impatient of any second place, let us emulate their dignity and glory. And, if we will it, we shall be inferior to them in nothing.
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
#12. One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place.
Brian O'Driscoll
#13. She's the latest freshest fruit of our great American evolution. She's the self-made girl!
( ... )
Well, to begin with, the self-made girl's a new feature. That, however, you know. In the second place she isn't self-made at all. We all help to make her, we take such an interest in her.
Henry James
#14. 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
#15. I rather have you win, because in God even those who are in second place are first.
Auliq Ice
#16. In New York, they like winners. They don't like second place.
Eli Manning
#17. Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close.
Mike Patton
#18. 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
#19. I think second place is always the most difficult one. It's not a nice feeling.
Bill Vaughan
#20. When I'm with a man, my work takes second place - all I really want to do is get through the day so I can rush home to be with him. That's because my man is the most important part of my life.
Linda Evans
#21. I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning. How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position.
Lauren Alaina
#22. If you think I'm going to tell my wife she came in second place, you're out of your gourd. I'll convey the apology and not another bloody word.
Johanna Lindsey
#23. It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
Jonathan Swift
#24. Every road will take you somewhere! But the question is: To where? To a sunny place or to a place full with shadows? Those who are very sure of their paths often end up in the second place! Don't be so sure with your path, question it ten times, question it hundred times!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#25. The Mosaic religion had been a Father religion; Christianity became a Son religion. The old God, the Father, took second place; Christ, the Son, stood in His stead, just as in those dark times every son had longed to do.
Sigmund Freud
#26. Second place is a nice title for the first loser.
Sarah J. Maas
#27. My advice would be to follow your dream. Most of my life, I was in second place before I came in first place. I hope that inspired people to never give up.
Jackie Evancho
#28. My sophomore year I placed 2nd, and my junior and senior year - I got smart and piled up enough points between myself and second place where I didn't have to run the mile.
Bo Jackson
#29. They don't give blue ribbons to second-place beers.
Hosho McCreesh
#30. The Republicans tend to choose the candidate who came in second place in the last election, and Democrats tend to move on. Ask President Ed Muskie how it worked out to be the front-runner. Ask President Howard Dean how it worked out.
Brian Schweitzer
#31. God desires to teach us how to submit to others and how to take the second place
Sunday Adelaja
#32. All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.
Mahatma Gandhi
#33. It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been an athlete than an actor. This is like some second place consolation prize.
Mark Wahlberg
#34. Anger does not come easy to me. It is something I have to encourage, like a greyhound in second place.
Joe Dunthorne
#35. Sales winners educate with new ideas and perspectives almost three times more often than second-place finishers. Of 42 factors studied, the greatest difference between winners and second-place finishers was their propensity to educate.
Mike Schultz
#36. Instead of being the A/V dweeb about to ask the head cheerleader to the prom, I was the finished-second-place werewolf about to ask the vampire's wife to shack up and procreate. Nice.
Stephenie Meyer
#37. A friend told me about a Nike competition, where they give you one minute to do tricks with a basketball. I wasn't going to go, but they were giving away free sneakers. I ended up coming in second place.
Ramon Rodriguez
#38. When belonging to an elite group eclipses the love of God, when I draw life and meaning from any source other than my belovedness, I am spiritually dead. When God gets relegated to second place behind any bauble or trinket, I have swapped the pearl of great price for painted fragments of glass.
Brennan Manning
#39. 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
#40. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.
Vince Lombardi
#41. I can see that you're in love, but only in a very narrow sense. It's the love of someone that finds charms and qualities in a woman that she doesn't actually have, who puts her in a class apart with every one else in second place, and who stays attached to her even while he's abusing her.
Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
#42. In marriage reason frequently had to take second place to Harmony
Graeme Simsion
#43. The plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy; Character holds the second place.
Aristotle.
#44. I give dignity second place to expedience.
Jack Vance
#45. Perhaps, I suggested, the fate of the universe could briefly take second place to the thorny issue of graduating with honours?
He blew loudly between his lips, a liquid sound of contempt. "That," he exclaimed, "is precisely what's wrong with academics.
Claire North
#46. When you get second place, you say 'I could have won it here, I could have won it there.' When you win, you never say anything; it's finished.
Greg LeMond
#47. Coming in second place just means you were the first person to lose ...
Jeff Hawkins
#48. Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.
William C. Bryant
#49. Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom he flatters of consequence enough to be flattered.
Samuel Johnson
#50. I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.
Ty Cobb
#51. People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that.
Daniel Kahneman
#52. 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
#53. I'm hearing in youth sports where you're not allowed to post scores of games online; everybody's gotta get a trophy. I mean, that's ridiculous. If you're a winner, you're a winner and you get a trophy. If you got second place, you don't get anything.
Carli Lloyd
#55. I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.
Sarah Dessen
#56. 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
#57. I knew Scotty was going to win. At the beginning of the episode, I was like, 'Scotty, are you ready to win?'. I knew he was going to in my heart. I accepted it. I couldn't pick a more perfect person to get second place to. He's my best friend.
Lauren Alaina
#58. There is no second place in a gunfight. Winners kill, losers get killed. Fight to win. Train to live. v. All
Gary Williams
#59. One of the ability of humility is the ability to take the second place without striving for self-promotion
Sunday Adelaja
#60. It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else.
Gerd Von Rundstedt
#61. 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
#62. What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?
Plato
#63. Alesi is in second place, and Hill is in second place.
Murray Walker
#64. I'll admit, right away, that I am disappointed that we did not have a major trophy to show for our efforts. We were in four and we had a good side, but when you count second place as failure, then standards are becoming fantastically high. We never celebrate second place here.
Bob Paisley
#65. Natural selection awards no prize for second place.
Thomas Lewis
#66. In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely upon the political devices of which I have already spoken invented only to deceive the people, for they are proved by experience to be useless.
Aristotle.
#67. But since we've been fighting for first or second place, it's grabbed the media's attention. I enjoy racing them. They are a good team and when you beat them it's something to be proud of.
Larry Dixon
#68. You're all playin' for second place.
Larry Bird
#69. If the verses are for a literary competition, your grace should try to win second place; first is always won through favor or because of the high estate of the person, second is won because of pure justice, and by this calculation third becomes second, and the first becomes third ...
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#70. No one remembers who took second place and that will neverbe me.
Enzo Ferrari
#71. Another religious fanatic to whom facts and reality took second place to dogma.
Peter F. Hamilton
#72. I did everything I could do and tried as hard as I could. In light of how I putted, I guess second place will do.
Cristie Kerr
#73. He was smart, but he had to be smarter. No points for second place.
Kenneth Eade
#74. Because I came in second place, it makes me want to work harder
Diana DeGarmo
#75. There is no second place for doing first rate work.
Jeffrey Fry
#76. Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
Woodrow Wilson
#77. He wants you back," slurred Beth.
"Excuse me?"
"He's in love with you and want you to be his one and only. And some other bullshit about you not being in second place and proving you wrong.
Katie McGarry
#78. From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction always toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.
Janet Frame
#79. If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.
Criss Jami
#80. I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.
Lauren Bacall
#81. And this is the third place car about to lap the second place car.
Murray Walker
#82. 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
#83. You can wish or you can do." That's what the dean always said. "You might have done the wrong thing in the first place, but you don't have to do the wrong thing in the second place." That's way I always said.
Siri Mitchell
#84. There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing.
Gabe Paul
#85. My dad taught us that there's no greater distance than that between first and second place.
Janet Jackson
#87. Whatever the reason, first place was always Solo, always, always, always, and second place was usually Chewbacca, because if you weren't the one saving the galaxy, you might as well be eight feet tall and covered with hair.
Charles Yu
#88. Human love didn't eradicate God, but it put Him into His proper distant second place.
Glen Duncan
#89. 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 place.
Billie Jean King
#90. Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
Sophocles
#91. I think being a woman is like being Irish ... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.
Iris Murdoch
#93. A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
Michael Faraday
#94. There cannot take place here a second existence, incomplete like the first, except by development of phenomena which are outside the normal consciousness; and this isolation of certain thoughts is again a result of the pathological retraction of the field of consciousness.
Anonymous
#95. When you're reading, you're laughing and not quite noticing what's happening. One second you're still kind of chuckling, and then all of sudden you're in the third act of the book and in this very dark and claustrophobic place.
Moshe Kasher
#96. Coffee is a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup
Gertrude Stein
#97. I'm not sure if there's one right place I'm supposed to be, he said, but I know a couple of wrong places I'd give a second try in a heartbeat.
Brian Andreas
#98. We're [New York] the world's second home, the place where every religion is practiced and every culture is celebrated.
Michael Bloomberg
#99. The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every day I got to know all the lady librarians who worked there. They knew my name and always said hi. I was painfully shy, though, and could barely reply.
Haruki Murakami
#100. The transformation has been unbelievable. When I started here, I worked in a place where the Sky Room was on the second floor.
Don Rickles
