Second Best Quotes

“The team then prepared for climbing big mountains by climbing a few small mountains, much as a heavyweight boxer prepares for a title bout by beating up several children.”
― Ben Pobjie, Second Best: The Amazing Untold Histories of the Greatest Runners-Up

“Transporting several ships full of live humans halfway around the world is an expensive undertaking. Transporting several ships full of corpses halfway around the world is considerably cheaper, and although the government was absolutely strict on the point that the trip needed to start with the former, they were agreeably flexible when it came to giving a shit whether it finished with the latter or not.”
― Ben Pobjie, Second Best: The Amazing Untold Histories of the Greatest Runners-Up