When I was in high school, I wrote a play that I sent off to a competition that took second place. I got a check for a hundred dollars. I never cashed it, because obviously it was worth way more than a hundred dollars.

Noah Wyle

Dione Lucas has been obscured by larger-than-life personalities like Julia Child, but she had it going on. She is like the horse that came in second place, whose name we can't remember. It takes more than just one horse to make a race.

Alex Guarnaschelli

It's only first place in NHL. Nobody remembers who's second place. Everyone remembers the winner.

Alexander Ovechkin

My dad brought me up not to accept second place. I lost a karate tournament once and got a trophy for fourth place. My dad tossed that trophy out the window on the way home.

Baron Corbin

One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place.

Brian O'Driscoll

I'd love to say second place is great, but it's not.

Corey Lewandowski

In the music business, we're much better off staying in Bath - we don't get involved in the competitiveness, where you've got to be seen in the right places and music kind of takes second place.

Curt Smith

Second place is just the first place loser.

Dale Earnhardt

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

In my career, I finished in second place six times. I played on teams that were in it to the very end. It's frustrating.

Dave Martinez

It was always about being first, about winning. There were no prizes for second place. My mother and father said, 'Do whatever you want, as long as you're the best at it.'

David Haye

In New York, they like winners. They don't like second place.

Eli Manning

Henderson had a thousand times more to do with the discovery of insulin than had Macleod. In the first place, he knew more about it. In the second place, he was consulted before every series of experiments, and he advised, criticized, or commended.

Frederick Banting

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

Gabe Paul

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.

Graeme Souness

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

Iris Murdoch

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

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 toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.

Janet Frame

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

If I could hire a coach in this country and I could get Tony Bennett, there would be nobody in second place. Nobody.

Jim Boeheim

I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.

Justin Bieber