There has long been a tendency to repeat, without checking it against the pictures, Gauguin's irritable verdict that Pissarro was a good second-rater, "always wanting to be on .
The offer was made in Graziano's dressing room two weeks before his scheduled bout with second-rater Ruben ("Cowboy") Shank.
His clique of shady Chinese business cronies and provincial politicians was regarded as proof that Estrada was a second-rater, unfit to rule and certainly not one .
Ricardo La Volpe in Guardian Unlimited Hugo Sanchez will always be a second-rater,La Volpe said, a comment that led to the two trading barbs in public regularly over the years.