with saying, 'It is better to fail aiming high than to succeed aiming low. And we of Spurs have set our sights very high, so high in fact that even failure will have in it an echo of glory.' Sports historian, Norman Giller, who has written biographies on both Nicholson and his skipper Danny Blanchflower, traces this quote to Blanchflower. "Bill was a blunt Yorkshireman who just did not use this sort of language," Giller has written in "Danny was the poet of the team and he both said this and wrote it in his newspaper columns when captain of Tottenham. Somehow somebody has put the words into Nicholson's mouth, but it was definitely Danny who said it first." Honours As a player Tottenham Hotspur Football League First Division: 1950–51 Football League Second Division: 1949–50 FA Charity Shield: 1951 As a manager Tottenham Hotspur Football League First Division: 1960–61 FA Cup: 1960–61, 1961–62, 1966–67 Football League Cup: 1970–71, 1972–73 FA Charity Shield: 1961, 1962, 1967 (shared) UEFA Cup: 1971–72, runner up: 1973-74 European Cup Winners' Cup: 1962–63 Anglo-Italian League Cup: 1971 See also List of UEFA Cup winning managers Joy Brook List of English football championship winning managers List of longest managerial reigns in association football References Further reading External links Bill Nicholson quotes 1919 births 2004 deaths People educated at Scarborough High School for Boys Sportspeople from Scarborough, North Yorkshire Footballers from North Yorkshire English footballers Association football wing halves Northfleet United F.C. players Tottenham Hotspur F.C. players English Football League players English Football League representative players England international footballers 1950 FIFA World Cup players English football managers Tottenham Hotspur F.C. managers Tottenham Hotspur F.C. non-playing staff West Ham United F.C. non-playing staff English Football League managers Association football coaches Association football scouts UEFA Cup winning managers English Football Hall of Fame inductees Officers of the Order of the British Empire British Army personnel of World War II Durham Light Infantry soldiers Military personnel from Yorkshire