Finals Quotes - Page 35

• I think it's more than whether or not you win or lose. It's having that opportunity on that final round, final nine, to come down the stretch with a chance to win.

  Phil Mickelson

  Golf, Winning, Opportunity

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• The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.

  Emil Ludwig

  Love, Kissing, Two

  "Of Life and Love" by Emil Ludwig, (p. 29), 2005.

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• The divorce is from my old putter. I think it's final - at least we're due for a long separation. I've suffered with that old putter for two years now. It got so rude I couldn't stand it.

  Shelley Hamlin

  Divorce, Golf, Thinking

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• That "I don't give a darn" attitude is probably why I've shot so many good final rounds over the years when I started the day a few shots behind with nothing to lose. . . and maybe that's why I've shot so many bad last rounds when I was ahead and knew I couldn't afford a mistake.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Attitude, Mistake, Golf

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• You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.

  Pat Summitt

  Perseverance, Winning, Games

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.100, Crown Business

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• The only thing I pay attention to with free throws is what a guy does in the final four minutes of a game. If you can improve players' self-esteem and confidence, get them to relax, teach visualization and routine, they will shoot as well, or better, with the pressure on.

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Self Esteem, Player

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• We have a huge game coming up in semi-finals. Just studying Finland or the Americans, whoever we're playing. Just moving forward, working hard in practice and making sure we stay sharp.

  Gillian Apps

  Moving, Hockey, Practice

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• It's a big game tomorrow, obviously, quarter finals. I think that whenever you play the Russians you always get up for it, and tomorrow is going to be even that much bigger, the quarter finals.

  Michael Richards

  Hockey, Thinking, Games

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• An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference between the pass from Pele to Carlos Alberto in the final of the World Cup in 1970 and the poetry of the young Rimbaud, who stretches cords from steeple to steeple and garlands from window to window. There is in each of these human manifestations an expression of beauty which touches us and gives us a feeling of eternity.

  Eric Cantona

  Soccer, Eye, Dark

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• I, for my part, acknowledge another precept which says that man must deal the final blow to those whose downfall is destined by God.

  Adolf Hitler

  Blow, Men, Downfall

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• The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad... Truth matters because of beauty.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Beauty, Discovery, Matter

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• We've made a final offer. We hope Ziggy Palffy will come to his senses. We have NO hope his agent will.

  Mike Milbury

  Hockey, Nhl, Agents

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• At the 1974 Stanley Cup Finals: Win today and we walk together forever.

  Fred Shero

  Hockey, Winning, Forever

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• Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our powers of identification and enthusiasm and, in time, attention as more and more closing rallies and crucial putts and late field goals and final playoffs and sudden deaths and world records and world championships unreel themselves ceaselessly before our half-lidded eyes.

  Roger Angell

  Sports, Eye, Goal

  Roger Angell (2013). “The Summer Game”, p.348, Open Road Media

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• Like so many of our people, we have now had a personal experience of German barbarity which only strengthens the resolution of all of us to fight through to final victory.

  George VI

  War, Fighting, People

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• Judo is the way to the most effective use of both physical and spiritual strength. By training you in attacks and defenses it refines your body and your soul and helps you make the spiritual essence of Judo a part of your very being. In this way you are able to perfect yourself and contribute something of value to the world. This is the final goal of Judo discipline.

  Kano Jigoro

  Spiritual, Essence, Perfect

  "Dynamic Judo: Throwing Techniques". Book by Kazuzo Kudo, 1967.

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• The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.

  Angela Carter

  Mother, Revenge, Istanbul

  "New Writing" edited by Malcolm Bradbury and Judy Cooke, 1992.

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• Your final goal is to convert your athletic swing to pure instinct rather than conscious thought.

  David Leadbetter

  Golf, Swings, Goal

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• The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Lying, Greatness, Men

  Elbert Hubbard (2008). “A Message to Garcia: And Other Classic Success Writings”, p.55, Penguin

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• Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.

  John Dewey

  Goal, Perfection, Aging

  John Dewey (2015). “Reconstruction in Philosophy: Top American Authors”, p.82, 谷月社

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• In the final analysis it doesn't really matter what the political system is...We don't need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation.

  Cesar Chavez

  Perfect, Political, Immigration

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• If you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Funny, Running, Dumb

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• Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.

  E. M. Forster

  Moving, Two, Darkness

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• At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change of purpose was wrought, I will not now take time to explain. Upon a clear conviction of duty I resolved to turn that element of strength to account; and I am responsible for it to the American people, to the christian world, to history, and on my final account to God.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Religious, War

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on War”, p.242, Algonquin Books

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• Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and where any attempt to salvage self-respect from the outcome compounded the wrong. I viewed it as a genuine tragedy. No one had a monopoly on anguish.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Military, Self, Play

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