Finish Line Quotes - Page 5

• Ideally I'd like to be working steadily as an actor: movies, a TV series, that sort of thing. I've been through a few different TV development cycles, and they didn't work out. When the time and project are right, it'll come together. Like I tell a lot of guys, it's not a race; there's no finish line.

  Russell Peters

  Race, Work Out, Guy

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• The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts.

  Ferdinand Porsche

  Fall, Perfect, Car

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• The window of X Factor opportunity opens up in the closing seconds of a race-you might be sprinting at the time or just hanging one, trying to get across the finish line. With a supreme act of will, you can prolong your effort, essentially fighting off the inevitable lactic acid shutdown. You'll have little time for contemplating the options: either wholeheartedly go for it, or back off. You must train your X Factor to unequivocally respond the way you want-go for it. Once the window is closed, it's closed forever.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Fighting, Opportunity, Race

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• It matters not whether you win the race or not but that you cross the finish line with a smile and a bit of a laugh. Stress does not come from having too much on your plate. Stress comes from labeling too many of those things as very important. Discussing religion, no matter how in depth the discussion, should never be confused with actually practicing that religion.

  Pat McBride

  Confused, Stress, Winning

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• It struck me that Steve Jobs, known to be such a brilliant speaker, had a very difficult time explaining things when he was younger. He was describing technology that didn't exist. He had MIT engineers, and he was trying to tell them what he wanted; but there were no terms for what he wanted yet. I think a lot of his early frustration was trying to quickly get his vision to the finish line.

  Joshua Michael Stern

  Jobs, Frustration, Technology

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• Slashing its way to the finish line, Black Swan is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little to nothing. Those of us who know and love ballet can only look on it with a different kind of horror.

  James Wolcott

  Swans, Ballet, Black

  "Swan Down: James Wolcott's Review". "Opera Chic" blog, December 06, 2010.

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• I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour. I want to cross one last finish line as my wife and my ten children applaud, and then I want to lie down in a field of those famous French sunflowers and gracefully expire, the perfect contradiction to my once anticipated poignant early demise.

  Lance Armstrong

  Stars, Children, Lying

  "It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life". Book by Lance Armstrong, 2001.

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• You know what's fun about basketball? It keeps evolving, and it keeps changing a little bit. And the older guys want to try to hold it back to how they grew up, and it's not the same. You've got to change with the times, and some of the guys you've got to drag across the finish line.

  Mike D'Antoni

  Basketball, Fun, Guy

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• If you don't discover God's dreams, you'll either waste your life running in wrong races and crossing wrong finish lines or, like many people, have no finish line at all.

  Dutch Sheets

  Running, Dream, Race

  Dutch Sheets (2012). “Dream: Discovering God's Purpose for Your Life”, p.12, Baker Books

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• The ideal racecar will expire 100 yards past the finish line.

  Stirling Moss

  Past, Racing, Yards

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• The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the last couple of meters - is what motivates me.

  Lance Armstrong

  Couple, Thinking, Cycling

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• ...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line.

  Tom Robbins

  Life, Religious, Horse

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.356, Bantam

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• For every finish-line tape a runner breaks -- complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras -- there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about.

  Grete Waitz

  Success, Sports, Lonely

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• Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Doctors, Track

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• The American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor. My grandmother never owned a house. She cleaned other people's houses so she could afford to rent her own. But she saw her daughter become the first in her family to graduate from college. And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.

  Julian Castro

  Daughter, Mother, Dream

  "Julian Castro's 5 notable lines" by Kevin Cirilli, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Happiness is not about the trophy, or the finish line. It's the journey. If you enjoy your journey, you can enjoy your life

  Pharrell Williams

  Journey, Lines, Trophies

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• But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?

  Diana Nyad

  Lines, Deadline

  Twitter post from Apr 07, 2015

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• We are Boston. We are America. We respond. We endure. We overcome. And we own the finish line.

  Joe Biden

  Boston, America, Overcoming

  "'We are America, we own the finish line,' Biden says at Boston bombing memorial" by Josh Levs, www.cnn.com. April 16, 2014.

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• Tears streamed down my face as I crossed the finish line. I was a new person, a runner.

  Thomas King

  Running, Racing, Tears

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• For me, as for so many runners, there really are no finish lines. Runs end; running doesn't.

  Dean Karnazes

  Sports, Running, Lines

  Dean Karnazes (2008). “50/50: Secrets I Learned Running 50 Marathons in 50 Days -- and How You Too Can Achieve Super Endurance!”, p.176, Hachette UK

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• Sometimes we become so focused on the finish line, that we fail to find joy in the journey.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Journey, Inspirational Running, Joy

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• In the race for quality, there is no finish line

  David T. Kearns

  Race, Quality, Lines

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• A man goes through many changes in 2000 meters. Some are not very pretty. Some make you hate yourself. Some make you wonder if you've been rowing for only three or four days. To avoid that fate, we prepared for all possibilities. If a meteor landed 10 feet off our stern, we would not blink. [We] Would be aware, yet impassive, to the outside world. Every ounce of energy would be funneled into the water, and not wasted by looking around, worrying about opponents, wondering about things that didn't concern our primary goal-to be the first across the finish line.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Hate, Fate, Men

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• For the real winners, there are no finish lines.

  Harvey Mackay

  Real, Lines, Winner

  Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin

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• Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line.

  Alice McCall

  Healing, Long, Lines

  Alice McCall (2009). “Wellness Wisdom”, p.18, Alice McCall

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