Race To Finish Quotes

#1. There has to be a protagonist who has to overcome challenges, and there will be a race to finish.

Ashwin Sanghi

#2. Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.

Mark Twain

#3. Making out with Marcus had always felt like a race to the finish line, but with Diego I felt like I'd already won.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#4. That is the sort of race which one really enjoys - to feel at one's peak on the day when it is necessary, and to be able to produce the pace at the very finish. It gives a thrill which compensates for months of training and toiling. But it is the sort of race that one wants only about once a season.

Jack Lovelock

#5. Sooner or later you go through the process because when the gun goes off when a race starts not everybody goes across the finish line. Not everybody has the same motivations. It's not even about stamina. It's about relentless, dog-headed, stubborn determination to cross that finish line.

Dean Goodman

#6. It depends what competition you are in. When you go to the big meets it's all about who touches in first. You've got to get into that race and into that frame of mind so that you're ready to race and you're ready to work hard and finish first.

Jazmin Carlin

#7. Whilst you have not yet reached the finishing line, work hard with diligence and tenacity!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#8. Life is marathon, not a sprint. It is a race we are all guaranteed to finish, so run wisely.

James North

#9. Stop comparing yourself to others. You have your own race to run. Finish well.

Lecrae Moore

#10. In the technology sector failure is often a precondition to future successes, while prosperity can be the beginning of the end. If the rise and fall of BlackBerry teaches us anything it is that the race for innovation has no finish line, and that winners and losers can change places in an instant.

Jacquie McNish

#11. Don't cease till your rivals turn to allies, failures to lessons; your liabilities to assets, pains to joy. You're able to finish the race!

Assegid Habtewold

#12. At least in a race you have mile markers and know how long you have to go. Labor is like running as hard as you can without knowing where the finish line is.

Lorraine Moller

#13. Yes: the race is long-to finish first, first you must finish. ~p206

Garth Stein

#14. I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the grace of God in all I do. I will run my race to the end. - Paul

John Piper

#15. If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.

Oprah Winfrey

#16. The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.

Joe Henderson

#17. The race is long. To finish first, you must first finish.

Garth Stein

#18. That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.

Alain Prost

#19. Sweetheart, this is not a race to the finish line. It's you and me, spending time together and getting to know each other better. Just that simple.

Brey King

#20. The only reason nice guys finish last is because they think they'll finish last. You don't win the race by walking around the starting line saying 'I'm not going to win this race'.

Mitch Rowland

#21. I'm different than most people ... when I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I'm thinking about what I'm going to do tomorrow. It's as If my Journey is everlasting and there is no finish line

David Goggins

#22. Tiger, come on now, you've still got work to do. This round and golf tournament are not over. Hang in there and finish the race.

Tiger Woods

#23. There's more to marathon day than running long. Learning how your body reacts to the early alarm, light breakfast and warm-up is key. Minimize surprises come race day. Run long the same time of day as the race.

Gina Greenlee

#24. Get going. Get up and walk if you have to, but finish the damned race.

Ron Hill

#25. Other nights ... I visualize to the point that I know exactly what I want to do: dive, glide, stroke, flip, reach the wall, hit the split time to the hundredth, then swim back again for as many times as I need to finish the race.

Michael Phelps

#26. Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino makes zombie movies, which probably comes as a surprise to him. At the center of his best and most recent pictures are the walking dead, characters in a race with themselves across mortality's finish line, their spirits arriving before the rest of them.

Steve Erickson

#27. At the end of the race nobody really cares about how you started, so stay laser focused and finish strong. Get ready to proclaim "I did it!

Farshad Asl

#28. You don't go to a race track to finish second.

Joey Logano

#29. Whether you are trying to finish a race or a book or that hard conversation you've been avoiding, the training leading up to that event is what makes it possible to face the fear & walk forward anyway. Quit complaining about discipline & start seeing it as a powerful tool for courageous living.

Annie F. Downs

#30. The writer, his eye on the finish line, never gave enough thought to how to run the race.

William Zinsser

#31. One should always try to do the best you possibly can. I'm not in a race to the finish line - I won't put anything out until it's completely ready. You want to keep it special and unique for the customer.

L'Wren Scott

#32. Beginnings are easy, the thing is to finish the race

Vitor Belfort

#33. The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the other than it is to drive too hard and crash.

Garth Stein

#34. The mistake I really learned from was in 2005, leading the Indianapolis 500. I had a decision whether or not to save enough fuel to finish the race - which meant slowing down - or going all-out for the win. I went conservative and saved enough fuel to go to the end but finished fourth.

Danica Patrick

#35. To be successful one must make change an ongoing process. Quality is a race with no finish line.

David T. Kearns

#36. Life is not about winning the race. Life is about finishing the race, and how many people we can all help finish this race. How we can start being kinder to each other

Marc Mero

#37. For as long as life breathes in us, we must continue to hope, to believe, to trust, to run our race, and to finish it with flying colors.

Kcat Yarza

#38. Think about the change that occurred in the 1500m at Christchurch. The 1500m was usually a slow race and then a sprint [at the finish]. But in 1974 I changed that from the beginning to the end. And not many people have thought about that.

Filbert Bayi

#39. My country did not send me 5,000 miles to start the race; they sent me 5,000 miles to finish the race. - John Stephen Akhwari, 1968 Summer Olympic

John Stephen Akhwari

#40. I don't know what forever is, April. I don't even want to think about the finish line while I'm in the race, because that's the end, and I don't want this to end. If that means forever, then yeah.

Dannika Dark

#41. Nice guys may appear to finish last, but usually they are running a different race.

Ken Blanchard

#42. Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.

Catherine Martin

#43. Mary Keitany from Kenya won the women's race at the New York City Marathon. You can tell she was fast because guys on the street didn't even have time to finish their catcalls.

David Letterman

#44. To finish the race first, you must first finish the race.

Garth Stein

#45. When the gun fires you must concentrate for every second on the way to that finish line. You should know exactly how long it will take you to and think about every step of the race you are about to run.

Maurice Greene