Finishing Quotations | Page 2

I would have liked to win, but then there is only so much you can do for it, and this time it was Fernando. I'm certainly not complaining about finishing second. There are several good teams, all of which are capable of battling for the title, and it's great to be one of them.

I was pleased with the way I improved over the course of the match, ... By the end of the match, I was much more comfortable. But I was a little nervous in the beginning and the ball was really flying. I was trying to go after the ball so it didn't play me, but I wasn't quite committed to letting my swing go, so I was sort of moving forward and not finishing my swing, and I was losing control of a few shots.

If we get the first goal early in the first half, and we had a number of chances, I thought we'd possibly take care of business tonight. The good part is that we are creating chances; the frustrating part is that we are not finishing enough.

I grew it out specifically for the race. This feels fantastic. It feels like you're about to die out on the course, but boy, nothing feels better than finishing down Main Street. It's a beautiful hill, the church bell is ringing, everyone is cheering. It's wonderful.

I graduated from college with a major in fiction writing, and then I spent years and years and years just writing and not ever finishing anything and really falling into the black hole of self-loathing.

If they (Renault) keep finishing behind us it is not possible to catch them any more, ... but we will fight as long as possible.

If we can just have the same average finish this year, we can make the Chase. Finishing races is so important. That's how we got that top five finish in the Busch Series. We really weren't a top-five team, but we did it by consistency. That's what we want to do this year.

If they keep finishing behind us, it is not possible to catch him anymore.

If things don't go our way we should be in the playoffs but I'm convinced we've still got a chance of finishing in first place.

If we can turn it around and start doing a better job of finishing then we can make some things happen with a big run in the district tournament.

I didn't wrestle good today. It was just an off day. I wasn't finishing any of my moves or taking advantage of anything.

I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon, that means I'm not finishing my pitches, and I've got to be able to do that first.

I am really pleased with the season this year. I feel I have established better credit to my name and feel I am more consistent. My hamstring was a little bit tight about 20 meters to the finishing line, but it was a good race, I think my performance was good, the competition was great.

I am really looking forward to it - it's an opportunity to be a musician and not have to worry about finishing lyrics. That's a nice way to come down from touring.

I am very satisfied for this silver medal. We clearly suffered for it. I'm proud of her for being so brave and finishing the competition. This is a beautiful moment for us.

Based on what I've seen, we look to be in pretty good shape as a team. It's possible that we could go in as the projected state champion. Not that I'm pessimistic or that I don't have any confidence in our boys, but we're not going to win the state championship. (St. Xavier) is in a class by itself. ... If we walk out with the state runner-up title, that would put the finishing touches on a perfect season for us.

I had very little time in between finishing Ocean's Twelve in Europe and going down to Mexico, where they had been shooting Zorro for a few weeks,

I felt like we accomplished a lot. But it's like not finishing a marathon with a mile left.

I felt like I was playing fairly well at the beginning of the year but nothing happened. I couldn't hole any putts so I was finishing 35th every week.

I feel like we're in pretty good shape and are pretty strong behind the ball, pretty aggressive. Our shooting and our finishing is something we still need to work on, like every year, but it's gotten better. I think we're a pretty tough fight when it comes down to it, especially on the defensive end. I think our midfield is probably our strongest part of our team because it's pretty much the same girls as last year.

I can't say enough about the play of Jordan Angeli . It was really just an experiment to move her to the forward position. She has done a fantastic job. Finishing two quality goals against the team of the caliber that we played tonight showed what a great player she is.

I can't fault my kids for their effort and their heart. It seemed like we were one little play from finishing it off and we couldn't do it.

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I don't think we will ever be able to stop. It's finishing (construction on) one before starting another one, but always having them all on the table and continuing to work toward the ultimate completion of all of them.

I don't think I've ever seen her want the ball and call for the ball as much as she has in these last two tournaments. That makes all the difference. Our guards are doing a good job of finding her and she's finishing with buckets.

Fortunately enough I managed to stumble over the finishing line,

If we win the next two games, we should be in the playoffs. If we go 1-1 against Tracy before finishing the regular season at Lincoln, its going to be real close.

If that can happen, we've got a good shot at finishing in the top 10.

He has been very efficient. His shot selection has been much better and he's finishing going to the basket.

He is not particularly quick or physical, but his sense of timing and his finishing are high quality. He remains a threat.

He made a big play, obviously, last week blocking the kick to extend overtime. Then finishing the play today basically was the signature play of the game.

This was one of our best finishing days in a long, long time. We've really been struggling on the offensive end ? trying to get connected. And today, we just did it well.

This wasn't one of our better games offensively. We rushed some decisions and got caught up in the competitive nature of the game. We didn't do a very good job finishing the game, but a win's a win.

We try to keep the game close until the end, and then we try to get our points. We've been finishing games really well. Everybody thinks we can win; we have to go out and get it.

We just have to get more fire in our game. We're used to jumping out on teams and getting the lead, but now we don't jump out on teams and get leads anymore and that kind of hurts us. We're not finishing very strong, and we just have to play better basketball.

We talked a lot about finishing a defensive stand.

We're playing some good teams very close. We've improved a lot, we just don't have that finishing touch yet.

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it / a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand / as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

We've got to get those games on the road if we're talking about finishing first or second. We've got some tough ones coming up.

Having a winning record at home or avoiding finishing last weren't motivating factors for us. When you are 27 games under .500, can we really expect to be better at home?

Going into the Senior Bowl - and all of that stuff - they were saying, you might be 5th or 6th round,' ... Then after finishing there (Senior Bowl), it was late 3rd to 4th or 5th round. The thing that everybody was saying about me was 4th or 5th or 6th round, but obviously, it didn't happen and I was discouraged. But you've got to make the best of the situation.

He's got his legs back and he's finishing his plays. He's more active getting deep and we're looking for him and finding him.

He's just finishing off extensive rehab and round five is when he's expected back.

His outside shot has become a lot more consistent. He's really strong at finishing near the basket and he's finding opportunities for himself to get in the scheme of the offense.

He's finishing better than he was earlier in the season. His defense was 100 times better than the last time we played Michigan.

He's finishing around the basket a lot more. He relied mostly on his jump shot before, but now he's scoring more around the basket.

He's doing well. Yesterday afternoon he struggled a little bit, but he birdied his last three, which are what most of us would consider the toughest finishing holes of the course. Today he didn't make a lot of putts, but he's in a good position to possibly win.

He was in the finals again last weekend (Wapakoneta Tournament) finishing second in his class. This is the third time he has been in the finals and he has won twice.

He just has to finish, ... He's doing everything right but the final act and that's finding some strength and finishing and finding a good base and putting it through the hoop. I just told him, 'You're going to have to dunk the ball.'

He likes to play physical, as you all saw, ... Obviously, you don't want to see anyone get hurt, but the kid is trying to win a job. You can't hold him accountable for finishing a check out there. Everyone was in that spot once.

Guys just stepped up and did exactly what we asked them to do. It's about focusing and finishing because that's how we get better as a team.

Keith penetrated and got to the basket very well. Defensively, he made them earn their points, forced them to take tough shots. He's also exceptional at finishing on the wing in transition, which we also saw a lot of tonight.

Just not being a new race team. Pretty much every guy on this team was here last year. That allowed us to work on our cars and be prepared over the winter time. I can remember a year ago the night before Bristol, finishing the car late at night on Thursday night and then come to Bristol.

J.P. wants to win. When you have a GM like that who isn't willing to settle for finishing third every year it causes a lot of changes. Last year we did the best we could to get in it and stay in it but it's nice to see that after the year we had, the first half we had, it still wasn't good enough, that we wanted to get better.

I switched up her role a bit. She gave us some good, solid minutes. We have some girls who can shoot, but we needed a bit of strength (inside) and she was finishing off some plays.

I think it is really important if you have any kind of vision for going to the championship game of the tournament because four days, four games is a very difficult task. It's been done, but at the same time, it's a lot easier if you have the chance to play three back-to-back games instead so I'm very proud of my team for finishing in the top four in the ACC.

I think it is impossible for any Spaniard to imagine a World Cup without Spain. The reality is that we are not leading the group but there's no use looking back on what might have been. If things don't go our way we should still be in the playoffs but I'm convinced we've still got a chance of finishing in first place. Let's see what happens.

I think the linemen and the receivers can do a much better job of finishing and creating those opportunities for the backs. Then again, it's also the backs as well. Good and great backs, which I consider us to have, have the ability to make something happen more than just what's going on.

I thought defensively we did what we thought we could do. Offensively, we didn't get any finishes. We weren't finishing some things to put pressure on them.

I think when you're ahead, like the Americans were, it's a good feeling, chasing in a way, and knowing you have those hard finishing holes.

I think when you reach this stage of your life, you're just looking for the traditional. It just seemed to put the finishing touch on the relationship. I never had children, so the thought of being a grandmother just blows me away.

I think with this whole influx into immediacy -- everyone is short term in their outlook. I made a tremendous commitment by not being able to go to medical school and not finishing all that I wanted to do in my engineering career. So I put everything into track and field. And just the passion I have for the sport, I never imagined I would be as good as I was. Once I realized I was that great, I put everything into maintaining it.

I was done with everything but the project when I was about 14 years old. I just didn't get around to finishing up until this project came along.

I was born in Evanston, about three blocks away from the Chicago border. My mother, at the time, was finishing her Ph.D. in African History at Northwestern University. Soon after my birth, my parents split, and my father moved to Wicker Park, which is on the north side of the city.

I thought they did a great job in the first half, especially finishing, making shots and driving the score up. I thought they read things well and really did a nice job finishing the game.

I thought that we just couldn't keep them off the boards. We talked about finishing our defensive sets and we'd get them to miss and then they'd get the rebound.

I think we kind of caught them off-guard with the first goal. We did a good job of finishing off that cross. We didn't do that for the entire game.

I think we just weren't getting the bounces on Friday. The puck just seemed to bounce straight to their stick. We weren't finishing well and the puck just wasn't going into the net. Things just didn't go our way.

I think we created all night and battled all night, but we weren't finishing and our power play came up short again.

I think we have to realize that we lost six seniors. You can say what you want, but next year we won't have six seniors. We will be young and have new faces. We can't go into next year thinking that we will be able to repeat finishing second in the conference and go to the conference championship again. We have to understand that it might take a little time.

It gives everybody the impression that we didn't do that well. ... We had a good year last year. I don't think we should apologize for winning the league or finishing second the year before and going to the Elite Eight.

Laura does such a great job finishing in the air. She's a very good player and Kelsey and she have a good connection.

Latin America is finishing the year on a very strong tone.

I was very, very pleased. It was better than what I expected. I knew that my front two runners (Johnson and Griffith) would have a chance finishing one and two. For my team to have runners coming in one, two, three and four was more than I could hope for. So, I was very, very pleased with everybody's effort.

I was actually shocked when I looked up and saw we were up by double digits, and 15, and then it was 20. The kids did a great job in the fourth quarter finishing on the foul line. I told them I would take a heart attack otherwise so they were kind to me tonight.

I was just finishing on the 18th hole and he birdied No. 9 and 10. The roars, it was the most unbelievable thing I've ever heard.

I was just finishing high school and entering college in 1988, when the Creator's Bill of Rights was drafted, and had already set my sights on building a career as a writer of comics. Discovering the Creator's Bill of Rights - in an issue of 'The Comics Journal,' if I'm not mistaken - I accepted it as gospel.

I was locating my fastball well. I didn't feel bad about not finishing the game. It's all about the win.

Just finishing my chances and making better passes. I don't think I've done anything differently. I've been working harder and harder because I've been missing chances. I've been creating them, but I haven't been scoring them. I was a little frustrated today that I missed the first two, but then I was relieved to get the goal and help out on the third one.

(Jerod) is battling the flu. He wrestled well, he's doing the things we've been working on in practice - getting his shots high and finishing hard.

Kyle is a true sportsman though. His main concern after finishing his leg was the well being of the runner he had gotten tied up with. Andrew Owens and Paul Johnson both put in solid legs to finish up that event.

Our kids gave it everything they had today. We won three state champ?ionships today, and that's a good performance by any standards. Memorial just had a little more than we did. Our kids had another outstanding season. There's nothing wrong finishing second at the state meet.

Our kids gave it everything they had today. We won three state champ­ionships today, and that's a good performance by any standards. Memorial just had a little more than we did. Our kids had another outstanding season. There's nothing wrong finishing second at the state meet.

Our guys are ready to go out and play baseball though. I think we're playing with confidence, playing well. The team is coming together. We had a goal to win the region (Region VI), we did that; we had a goal to win the district; we're one win away from that, and we're focused on finishing the district.

Our interest is getting back and finishing on a positive note.

Our strength is that we have depth, so we should contend. We have athletes that are capable of finishing at the top of the BIG EAST. Depth is very important to us, so the more we have, the better off we will be.

Our strength is hitting and offense. We've been moving kids around the infield and outfield and still finishing where they fit in.

Our focus now is on finishing the 2004 season and securing the future of the F1 business under new ownership.

Our goal is to have every student on track toward graduation or finishing the semester,

Our finishing was very nice. I think we got maybe four or five good opportunities and we scored on three, and that's as good a percentage as you're going to find. It was just getting more chances.

Right now with its first initial announcement it's just a starting point for finishing the season and where you wind up is most important.

Renowned development studios around the world are busy putting the finishing touches on their Xbox 360 games ,

Remnants of the stone shed where they did the finishing work, ... the foundation is there.

Part of that patience is we're looking at the post more. And our posts are either finishing or getting the foul.

Our number one thing was capitalizing on turnovers, but then we would turn the ball back over. In the second half, we were finishing plays. They did what we asked them to do.

Steve played fired-up tonight. He was taking hits and still finishing plays inside. When he can score inside it opens up things for our shooters.

Statistics point to what happened in this game. We had problems finishing plays where we had the size advantage, and it was painful at the free-throw line.

Starting from 19th place with a full tank and finishing sixth is obviously a lot better than I expected, so it was a very good race for me. The only problem I had was warming up the tires after the numerous safety car phases. We have to have a look at this to improve the situation but otherwise our pace was good.

(Stanley) was banging and finishing against a kid (Hill) who's as good as they get in the conference.

That doesn't surprise me or anyone that works with him. He does some work and his finishing was top class.