Finishing first

Posted by Jon
The BBC website today quotes cyclist Mark Cavendish, after he had been congratulated for finishing as runner-up in a major race:

“Don’t ever, ever, congratulate me on finishing second.”

​I rather like that, as a variant on the old quote that “silver medals were invented to make losers feel better about themselves”, or Bill Shankly’s “First is first: second is nothing”.
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