Favourites Quotes

When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you to find Him. And, in fact, He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others...not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for Him to show Himself to a man whose whole mind and character are in the wrong condition. Just as sunlight, though it has no favourites, cannot be reflected in a dusty mirror as clearly as in a clean one. - CS Lewis

What happened at the last World Cup we can use as experience. We were favourites and we were dumped out after the first round. - Hernan Crespo

We tried to keep Sastre up front ahead of the climb, where it all exploded... Of course, it would've been more fun if we'd had a rider in the break, but I'm pretty satisfied with the fact that we had three guys in the second group with all the big favourites. - Kim Andersen

We didn't really look for somebody to replace him... For one, there is nobody - not a strong leader like he was. Without him, we have a very good team, but not the favourites. - Johan Bruyneel

We arrived in Argentina with a lot of injured players, including our goalkeeper. Also we were unlucky to be drawn in the same group as the two tournament favourites Italy and Argentina. - Michel Patini

This is the first time we have won the Edinburgh Cup so we are thrilled to bits and to achieve it by beating the favourites gives our taste of success extra flavour. - Robert Baxter

The Blades now have a really strong squad and must be among the favourites for promotion. - Chris Kamara

People will look at the way we have started and say we are favourites, but we respect other teams in the league. - Peter Thompson

In my opinion, we won't be favourites and the likes of North-East, Ayrshire and Dumbartonshire are all likely to be vying for the trophy. - Paul Gibson