Second Best Quotes - Page 3

• 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. I came in second in the Finals. I'm tired of being second. I'm not going to settle for that. I'm done with it.

  Kevin Durant

  Tired, School, Player

  "Kevin Durant sick of second, working for first with help of advanced stats" by Ben Golliver, www.si.com. April 23, 2013.

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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

  Player, Teammate, Used

  "Dwyane Wade looking forward to playing against ex-teammate LeBron James" by Brandon Di Perno and Surya Fernandez, www.hothothoops.com. July 25, 2014.

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• Why be second best at anything?

  Paul Heyman

  Wrestling

  "The Rise & Fall of ECW". Documentary, Sport, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now.

  David Brin

  Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging

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• .. As far as they're conserned, I've been kind of a poor second best all my life, or I don't qualify at all compared to my brother. It's rough being around them and feeling like you never measure up." Collin

  Danielle Steel

  Brother, Feelings, Kind

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• I was an apprentice television engineer when I decided to pack it up and go full-time, much to my father's disgust. But I'm still interested and I like messing about with TV. I can't deny it ... TV engineering was the job I'd wanted at the time, and I got what I wanted. But in the long-term it would have been second best to being a musician.

  Peter Ham

  Jobs, Father, Engineering

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• If the best way to learn to succeed is to fail as fast as possible, then the second-best way is to watch someone else fail as fast as possible. Watching someone else screw up is a kind of rehearsal for your own eventual downfall. A close observation of someone else's attempt to resolve a difficulty is a great way to acquire real-world insight into whether and when to deploy their method in your own times of trouble.

  Cory Doctorow

  Real, Screw Ups, Watches

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• I love football. I really love football, As far as I'm concerned, it's the second best thing in the world.

  Joe Namath

  Football, World, Concerned

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• The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.

  Joseph Campbell

  Misunderstood, Conversation, Mass

  Joseph Campbell (1991). “The Masks of God: Creative Mythology”, Penguin Group USA

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• The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Running, Oil, World

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• New England has two factors to get them ready to play. They've consistently been, if not the best, the second best team all year and they're playing confidently. And a lot of those guys were on field when they lost to LA. They'll take motivation in that.

  Landon Donovan

  Motivation, Team, Years

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• I'm very happy with the outcome of the vote ... I totally, totally support equal marriage in law. I don't want anybody in society feeling second best. I don't believe that being gay is a sin.

  Stephen Crabb

  Believe, Gay, Law

  "Brexit: Crabb and Fox out of Tory race after May wins first round of voting - As it happened" by Andrew Sparrow, Claire Phipps and Ben Quinn, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2016.

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• Karl Agell sang for our Blind album which was our second best selling record. He's a great guy and as a matter of fact, before Mike, Woody and I really got going on touring on the old Animosity stuff, Karl & I did about a dozen shows performing the Blind album from start to finish. He's still a good friend of mine and is now in a band called Lead Foot that's more Rock and Roll but they're fantastic, kind of Thin Lizzy or MC5 sounding.

  Reed Mullin

  Good Friend, Rock And Roll, Feet

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• This song of mine
  Is a song of the vine
  To be sung by the glowing embers
  Of wayside inns,
  When the rain begins
  To darken the drear Novembers. and
  For the richest and best
  Is the wind of the West
  That grows by the Beautiful River;
  Whose sweet perfume
  Fills all the room
  With a bension on the giver. and
  When you ask one friend to dine,
  Give hime your best wine!
  When you ask two,
  The second best will do.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Song, Sweet

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• Heinrich Zimmerhe had a little saying : The best things cant be told - because they are transcendent, inexpressible truths. The second best are misunderstood : myths, which are metaphoric attempts to point to the way toward the first. And the third best have to do with history, science, biography, and so on. The only kind of talking that can be understood is this last kind.

  Joseph Campbell

  Talking, Misunderstood, Littles

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• The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don't have to copy anyone else. If you do, you're second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that's being yourself.

  John Denver

  Success, Being Yourself, Firsts

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• In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Moving, Decision, Critical Moments

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• Arguably, the Venice Film Festival is the second best film festival in the world, after Cannes.

  Robert Englund

  Venice, World, Festivals

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.

  Herman Melville

  Women, Wife, Firsts

  Herman Melville (2016). “The Ambiguities”, p.17, Herman Melville

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• You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

  Leo Buscaglia

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• I don't think I would ever write a book with what anybody could call pornography in it, because I feel that pornography is a cheat. It is an attempt to provide sexual experience by secondhand means. Now sex is a thing which has to be experienced firsthand, if you are really going to understand it, and pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars. It's not the same thing. Sex is primarily a question of relationships. Pornography is a do-it-yourself kit--a twenty-second best.

  Robertson Davies

  Sex, Book, Mean

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• But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever penned this body of work was firstly well-travelled, secondly a multi-linguist and thirdly someone who had an innate knowledge of the inner workings and the mechanisms of a very secret and paranoid Elizabethan court. Edward de Vere ticks those three boxes and many more. William of Stratford gave his wife a bed when he died [his second best bed].

  Rhys Ifans

  Reading, Wife, Secret

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The iPad remains Apple's second bestselling product - all the more reason why the iPad Pro needs to be "big" in every sense of the word.

  Tim Cook

  Ipads, Apples, Needs

  Source: money.cnn.com

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• You have friends and one of them is your best friend. And now, make the nature as your second best friend and spend time often with it!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Nature, Your Best Friend, Spend Time

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• 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

  Surgery, Ifs

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