
“I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.”
Morning Constitutions (2007)
“I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.”
“I'd rather be thin than famous
but I'm fat
paste that in your broadway show”
Source: Mexico City Blues
“Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser.”
“Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.”
Attribution to Rockne sometime in the 1920s mentioned in Safire's Political Dictionary (2008) by William Safire, p. 401, but there is no definite mention of this yet located prior to the 1980s; in The Yale Book of Quotations by Fred R. Shapiro, a similar remark is credited to Arnold "Red" Auerbach, based on a 1965 citation in the Mansfield News Journal [Ohio]: "Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser."
Disputed
“Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.”
Source: As quoted in "One Hard Way to Make a Living" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1981/05/04/one-hard-way-to-make-a-living by Roger Angell, in The New Yorker (May 4, 1981), p. 96; reprinted in Late Innings (1982) by Roger Angell, p. 358