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It’s always a little disappointing when you start on the pole and can’t convert, but it was generally a good day, i think Josef had a little bit better pace than us. I think we were the second-best car. I got pretty aggressive on the restart there to try and do something and just kind of overstepped a little bit. That’s what allowed Marcus to get by. – Alexander Rossi	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The best bet is in yourself, the second best is in a cup of coffee. – Isaac Mashman	added by isaacmashman 3 years ago
Washington Mystics ' didnt have Washington Mystics ' Emma Meesseman. Were a different team when shes on it, we got a really good Connecticut team coming in. Washington Mystics ' are playing really great basketball. Well focus on Washington Mystics ' and figure some things out. Washington Mystics ' Emma Meesseman was a huge reason that Washington Mystics ' were able to advance Las Vegas, winning the series on Tuesday night. Washington Mystics ' Emma Meesseman had 22 points in the clincher. Washington Mystics ' and The Sun played three times in the regular season and Connecticut won twice. Washington did win the final matchup by an eye-popping 43 points. The two teams havent played since June 29. While Washington had to work to put away Las Vegas, Connecticut cruised through the semifinals, sweeping Los Angeles in three games. After getting eliminated in single-elimination playoff games the previous few years, The Sun were determined to get one of the top two seeds and the double-bye that goes with it. After finishing with the second-best record behind Washington in the regular season, Connecticut accomplished that. The Sun have benefited by having a healthy year for their starting lineup as the team used the same five to begin every game. The Suns starting five of Jasmine Thomas, Alyssa Thomas, Shekinna Stricklen, Courtney Williams and Jonquel Jones all have the ability to have big games, making them tough to game plan against. Thats what coach Curt Miller expected when Shekinna Stricklen took over the team in 2016. – Delle Donne	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The flip in investor sentiment regarding high-yield funds can be seen in the group's fund-flows results, as they had net outflows of $20.7 billion in Q4 - second worst quarterly net outflow ever - and they have taken in $14.3 billion in net new money in Q1 - the second best quarterly net inflow ever. – Pat Keon	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I think it's probably the second best place she could have been, people can see her and get the same excitement that I have for her. – Peter Larson	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Do not accept second best. – Nick Terry	added by anonymous 9 years ago
It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe him. Study him. But don't worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers. – David J. Schwartz	added by anonymous 9 years ago
It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them. – Hilaire Belloc	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy. – George Carlin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We must as second best...take the least of the evils. – Aristotle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity. – Bertrand Russell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Cats are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility. – Stephen Baker	added by anonymous 14 years ago

It’s always a little disappointing when you start on the pole and can’t convert, but it was generally a good day, i think Josef had a little bit better pace than us. I think we were the second-best car. I got pretty aggressive on the restart there to try and do something and just kind of overstepped a little bit. That’s what allowed Marcus to get by.

– Alexander Rossi

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The best bet is in yourself, the second best is in a cup of coffee.

– Isaac Mashman

added by isaacmashman
3 years ago

Washington Mystics ' didnt have Washington Mystics ' Emma Meesseman. Were a different team when shes on it, we got a really good Connecticut team coming in. Washington Mystics ' are playing really great basketball. Well focus on Washington Mystics ' and figure some things out. Washington Mystics ' Emma Meesseman was a huge reason that Washington Mystics ' were able to advance Las Vegas, winning the series on Tuesday night. Washington Mystics ' Emma Meesseman had 22 points in the clincher. Washington Mystics ' and The Sun played three times in the regular season and Connecticut won twice. Washington did win the final matchup by an eye-popping 43 points. The two teams havent played since June 29. While Washington had to work to put away Las Vegas, Connecticut cruised through the semifinals, sweeping Los Angeles in three games. After getting eliminated in single-elimination playoff games the previous few years, The Sun were determined to get one of the top two seeds and the double-bye that goes with it. After finishing with the second-best record behind Washington in the regular season, Connecticut accomplished that. The Sun have benefited by having a healthy year for their starting lineup as the team used the same five to begin every game. The Suns starting five of Jasmine Thomas, Alyssa Thomas, Shekinna Stricklen, Courtney Williams and Jonquel Jones all have the ability to have big games, making them tough to game plan against. Thats what coach Curt Miller expected when Shekinna Stricklen took over the team in 2016.

– Delle Donne

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The flip in investor sentiment regarding high-yield funds can be seen in the group's fund-flows results, as they had net outflows of $20.7 billion in Q4 - second worst quarterly net outflow ever - and they have taken in $14.3 billion in net new money in Q1 - the second best quarterly net inflow ever.

– Pat Keon

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I think it's probably the second best place she could have been, people can see her and get the same excitement that I have for her.

– Peter Larson

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Do not accept second best.

– Nick Terry

added by anonymous
9 years ago

It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe him. Study him. But don't worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers.

– David J. Schwartz

added by anonymous
9 years ago

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

– Hilaire Belloc

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

– George Carlin

added by anonymous
14 years ago

We must as second best...take the least of the evils.

– Aristotle

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.

– Bertrand Russell

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Cats are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility.

– Stephen Baker

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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