Morrie Schwartz Quotes

What's wrong with being number 2?

Once you're not No. 1, it doesn't matter where you are.

Second place is just the first place loser.

I don't want to be an also-ran.

Second place is really the first loser.

The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.

It's the best fifth place I've ever had.

I'm not a first-place person.

No one remembers who came in second.

Nobody remembers who finished second but the guy who finished second.

In America everything's about who's number one today.

No one remembers the runner-up!

As much as you may be sitting in the top five or the top 10, sometimes you just don't get that chance to get to the top.

I've learnt that being second is worthless.

There's always going to be a last-place guy.

I found that being top put all the pressure on second place, not first. The focus is on the second-place team, who can't afford to slip up again.

No one is going to remember a second-place team.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

I don't like to be second in anything. I was trying, I just wasn't going anywhere.

Nobody ever remembers who finished second at anything.

Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.

Nobody remembers who came in second.

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

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.