God Bless you Billy Nick a true Spurs legend !!!

It is better to fail aiming high than to succeed aiming low.
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No, it's simply better to succeed than to fail.

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I just think it's a bit of a sophist quote. ANY manager would rather succeed in any way than to fail "gloriously". Any manager suggesting otherwise is telling porkies.

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Sheriff, I don't think you've understood the quote.

Unlucky lad.

Any way? Cheating, time wasting, playing long ball, scoring 1 goal then parking the bus? No thanks!
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If you won a Champions League final parking the bus and playing hoof ball against Barca or Madrid or Bayern and the like, no fan - absolutely NO FAN - would give a toss how you won it. Let's stick to reality here and not romantic fantasy.

Sheriff, I don't think you've understood the quote.

Unlucky lad.
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Maybe you could break it down for me then. The English looks pretty plain to me.

*sigh* ok, I'm not sure if you're being serious or not, but I'll humour you.

The two 'targets' are not the same. He was saying that if you aim to be the best and fall just short, that's better than aiming for mediocrity and succeeding.

If Spurs aim to win the title, but finish second. We have failed.

That's better than if we aimed to 'not finish in the bottom three', and succeeded.

It's an excellent quote about ambition and the drive to win.

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Different era different ethics back then

Billy nic was mr Tottenham

If Spurs aim to win the title, but finish second. We have failed.

That's better than if we aimed to 'not finish in the bottom three', and succeeded.
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Actually that makes sense to me. Fairplay, sir.

Nice one Sheriff.

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Thanks sizzle. I would use the 'thumbs up' icon, but I've just noticed I used it in every post so far in this thread.

What a d[ck...

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Without him we wouldn't be the club that we are today, so Mr Nicholson I applaud you because you are and always will be MrTottenham.

Sherrif is touchy because he knows Wenger has settled for the top 4 for the last 5 or 6 years.

I had the pleasure of being at WHL for Bill Nicholson's first game in charge of Spurs, October 1958 V Everton. It was also the first time I had ever seen Spurs play. The score??? We beat Everton 10-4

Sheriff not understanding the quote
And then trying to have a ruck when the op is commemorating the death of a legend <bellend>

Sheriff

Stop trying to insult one of the greatest ever British Managers, and one who puts whinging crying wimps like Wenger to shame.