Finishing Quotations | Page 7

If I ever get happy with myself for finishing 12th or 15th, someone needs to put my clubs away and I'll take up tiddlywinks.

If Fernando keeps finishing behind us it is not possible to catch him any more, but we will do everything we can as a team to keep fighting and we were very unlucky today. We had a perfect race and it was unfortunate for the team what happened in the last few laps because we could have had a one-two and we deserved it. I was happy with the car but we deserved to have both cars on the podium.

I came here to win a medal. I know that anything can happen in our sport. I didn't want to finish fourth in the final. Finishing fourth, it's like losing.

I couldn't do anything more. Alonso keeps finishing second, so we just need to do the best we can. You never know what might happen in these races.

I don't think finishing second or fifth is going to make a difference once you get to the conference tournament. In this league, everyone's the same. This was a road game. We didn't play well, but we can go out and win the next one.

I feel a lot more confident in my game than I did heading into the other majors. I really want to put everything I have into finishing off the year right.

I don't think we came out with the intensity we needed. It's about finishing your chances, and both teams had them and both didn't finish them. Now we've got to do a better job on the road.

I don't like finishing a game that way. I'm not getting on my team at all. They played hard. They played really well.

I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter.

Sometimes you got to start somewhere. And it's cool, as long as where you start is not where you plan on finishing.

He pulled up alright and trained well this morning, hopefully we can turn the tables on Saturday. We just had about every bit of bad luck happen to us last week. He had the bad start and losing a shoe at the 600 was the finishing touch to what ended up a bad day.

He (Powers) was just finishing throwing and I felt I was within one step. I probably should have laid off of him.

Graduating from the School of Commerce and finishing in the top ten in her graduating class is nothing short of spectacular.

For now, while we are focusing on finishing the session, we want to make sure nothing gets destroyed or removed.

There’s always tomorrow.” “Exactly,” she said, finishing off her first doughnut, selecting a second. Maybe she wouldn’t starve to death, she decided. Maybe she’d eat herself into obesity and explode. Death by doughnut.

If you're going to start something-if it's worth starting-then it's worth finishing. That's what I live by.

Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing

He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded of the viewer? He is asked to 'see' the future links.

I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.

You can't have one, two or three of those a year and expect to have a successful season, ... so if we have an opportunity like that again, we have got to do a much better job finishing the job.

The key part of the game was the end of the second quarter. They did a great job finishing plays and giving themselves a chance to win. ... We couldn't get over the hump.

This is our last opportunity to show we're a good football team. I believe this is one of the best football teams Virginia Tech has ever had. Getting to 11 wins would be something--and so would finishing in the top 10.

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This has just been a magical season. From the first meet to now, finishing undefeated, winning all of our championship meets. I don't think I could have asked any more out of these kids after today.

(Alejandro) Valverde is going to drop some bombs. And if it ends up finishing in a bunch sprint I'm not sure Petacchi will get his Italian train going,

A.J. finishing his whole career like this, we really want to make a statement. We really want to do it for him.

The first was bigger because it came after finishing second as a freshman. Now I want to go after No. 3.

The electronic recycling event is important because it will divert the electronics from going to the landfill. Even though you can come out and drop them off at the transfer station, this will be convenient for residents while they are out shopping and returning and finishing up Christmas.

You want to keep the ball, make first downs. You're trying to give yourself a chance to run and, every now and then, mix in the pass. When you lose a football game, you can say almost anything about it, but we thought we were trying to do smart things. Finishing off the game, that's a big deal, and that's what we've got to do.

You've got to finish it off. Personnel is one thing, regular season is one thing, ... But to end up not finishing it off leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

Andrew was a lot better on his feet and he was taking good shots, but he was not finishing his takedowns and it cost him. Once the guy was on top, he was just wearing Andrew down.

All three pitchers we threw (Monday) did a good job. Pat kept us in the game and Tommy got us out of a jam and Robby did a nice job of finishing up. Our young guys needed to step up and they did a nice job of getting us through the game.

The girls team did very well finishing second to New Albany. To make such a competitive meet even after being down by that margin really speaks to the talent of our girls team.

The girls played really well, and scored the first goal within the first five minutes, and that let us settle down and play our game. The level of game never slowed down, and finishing it was a big deal.

The gap is closing between the teams. We've had some injury problems, missing two of our top five girls. We had the depth today with 11 girls finishing in the top 20. There is nobody in our top 15 that is a senior.

The game was getting sluggish. We talked about getting back into rhythm and finishing the half strong, and to come out and play well in the first five minutes of the second half.

The golf course is on track to meet the budget this year. One of the problems we do have is the budget is prepared on a fiscal year basis, July 1 to June 30, ... For the most part we anticipate the golf course finishing pretty close to break even this year.

The economy is finishing the year on a strong note. Exports have gotten back on track quite nicely, including electronics, which had a bit of difficulty at the start of the year. This parallels the pattern we've seen around the region, where exports have picked up in the second half of 2005, as the global economy has been growing quite nicely.

The economy is finishing the year on a strong note.

The funny thing is, as a young person I was trying to write prose, and I wrote a lot of it, but I was never satisfied with the results. Two of the novels I wound up finishing and publishing later I started very early on, in my early 20's, In The Country Of Last Things and Moon Palace. Both of those books I worked a great deal on but never quite got a grip on either one.

The Coach of the Year doesn't make the season more gratifying, winning six games on the road by double digits and finishing the way we did being so young is what was so gratifying. This year we started 1-2 and nobody thought we had a shot.

The first half was like a chess match, and then things really opened up. Our defense came of age today, and we did a great job finishing the game.

If it were possible for any one person or group of persons to go through a photographic finishing plant's work at the end of a day, you could probably pull out the most extraordinary photographic exhibition we've ever seen. On almost any subject. The trouble is to find the things.

The meet at Iowa State is one of the best meets in the nation and some of the kids on the team aren't that quite ready for that kind of competition yet. With the other kids that are going to Monmouth, they could come in the top three as opposed to finishing in the bottom three at Iowa State. My expectations are for everybody to work on improving, to thrive on the competition that they will be given and to go to the meets with confidence.

The Italian-based horse is worth somewhere around $10 million after winning six of seven major races and finishing second in the seventh. If he is going to win in Tokyo and perform like this next year, his value could reach an estimated $30 million.

The last four minutes, we buckled down and played really good (man-to-man) defense, and we got some key buckets. A year ago we probably wouldn't have finished this game. Now we're finishing games.

The last four games we had great practices. For four weeks we concentrated on defensive intensity and finishing games out. The 1-3-1 zone has been working really well for us. We force turnovers by the other team and get the fast break going.

I realized the secret to success is finishing! And not just finishing, but finishing strong!

The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality... could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.

She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master's finishing touch.

During one performance of 'Les Miserables,' the barricade didn't leave the stage, so we had to actually end up finishing the second act with the barricades on the stage, which was very strange... doing the love scene on the barricade.

I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it.

Shift often from openness to closure.

Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.

To me, beauty and makeup and color is like the finishing touch on everything.

Makeup is the finishing touch, the final accessory.

The best part of all, the absolutely most delicious part, is finishing it and then doing it over I rewrite a lot, over and over again, so that it looks like I never did.

I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.

If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it.

It has often been said that [...] the Japanese [are] geniuses at taking foreign ideas and adding a unique finishing touch.

I was bangin’ 7 gram rocks and finishing them because that’s how I roll

Minerva House was ''a finishing establishment for young ladies,'' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.

Minerva House... was ""a finishing establishment for young ladies,"" where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.

Publicly, I have always expressed a great deal of confidence in human nature, but in private I have wondered if anybody would ever pay for anything on the Net, ... It now looks as though people will, and I am faced with the real possibility of finishing 'The Plant.'

Always quit for the day when you know what you want to do next.

Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

The bookends of success are starting and finishing. Decisions help us start; discipline helps us finish.