Top 140 Finishing Quotes

I’m getting better and better each year that I’m playing golf on the world stage, and finishing runner-up only teaches you how to continue being patient – something that is key to our game.
Jason Day
I don’t have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing.
Bill Cosby
I’m going to work on finishing Mark Hunt, but he’s very hard to hold down. I feel like that’s the best opportunity for victory for me.
Frank Mir
The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.
Franz Halder
My heroes were people like Jim Jarmusch. Scorsese was my god. Spike Lee was exciting, doing exactly what we thought we were going to do: personal movies based in, and about, New York. My heroes were all participating in an economic model that was collapsing as I was finishing film school.
Alan Taylor
I grew up playing guitar and writing music, and I always wanted to be a songwriter and a singer and play the guitar. But while I was finishing college, my drag became lucrative, so I had to pursue what was going to pay the bills – and doing comedy as Trixie was something that I was able to market.
Trixie Mattel
With Westbrook and myself, I can see the dog that he has in him. He’s got that fire that he won’t back down from anybody. His game is a little different than mine because he’s a fast, get to the bucket type of player, finishing above the rim and things like that.
Gary Payton
I start laughing every time because the media talks to me like I’m finishing my career and I only have one year left and time is running out.
Caroline Wozniacki
Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of,

Finishing games has been something I’m really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
Felicia Day
The only thing that’s really hard for me is when I go to bed after everybody else in my house gets up. And that – you just feel stale. It just feels awful to be still finishing your day when everybody else is starting theirs.
Heather Cox Richardson
People read vampire novels and say, ‘Oh I want to read another vampire novel.’ People read fantasy, and they’re like, ‘Oh I love fantasy.’ I don’t know that people are necessarily finishing ‘Hunger Games’ and immediately wanting to read another dystopian tale.
David Levithan
We do like digital projection. We like shooting on film, finishing digitally, and projection digitally. That’s what I like best. It’s still a movie. It’s not someone’s camcorder and it got projected. That’s mean, I know.
Zack Snyder
I think the questions on the grit scale about not letting setbacks disappoint you, finishing what you begin, doing things with focus, I think that those are things I would aspire to or hope for for all our children.
Angela Duckworth
I always like to get that finishing blow and satisfy the crowd.
Carl Froch
Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.
Dale Earnhardt
After finishing my college, I wanted to do something related to the media.
Ishita Dutta
Nobody loves finishing second, as we’ve seen in past races. It’s a sport that you want to get everything you can out of it, but sometimes it just doesn’t work out.
Bubba Wallace
When I started playing well all I wanted to do was win. Which was a problem. When it became clear I wasn’t going to win, I would get fed up. I played poorly on a few Sundays, finishing 50th because I wasn’t interested in finishing 30th. But I’ve learned not to do that.
Tommy Fleetwood
Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.
William Feather
My mother was in the Army Reserve for six years. She taught me the importance of following rules, finishing what I start, never giving up, leadership skills, teamwork, staying positive, motivated and how to pack the military way when I’m traveling!
Laurie Hernandez
I was sent to a finishing school, which didn’t last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I ‘came out’ before going to a domestic science school.
Mary Wesley
Sergio Aguero, everyone knows how good his finishing is, but to play up against him… these top players, until I played against them I didn’t realise how good they were.
Neil Etheridge
I think any good government will target on the finishing date, that is, the polling day and make sure that their strategy is strong and in place to get them successfully re-elected.
Alexander Downer
I love ‘Sunday in the Park with George.’ I saw that when I was just, just starting theater school, and I remember singing ‘Finishing the Hat’ or at least reading the lyrics to ‘Finishing the Hat’ and other songs from ‘Sunday in the Park with George’ to my mom to try to explain why I wanted to be an artist.
Stephen Colbert
After finishing the gymnasium in Muenchen with 9 years of Latin and 6 years of ancient Greek, history and philosophy, I decided to become a physicist. The great theoretical physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, an university colleague of my late father, advised me to begin with an apprenticeship in precision mechanics.
Wolfgang Paul
Finishing in the top four for Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Man United was easier before, but now it’s getting much more difficult with the emergence of teams like Manchester City.
Sam Allardyce
To me, beauty and makeup and color is like the finishing touch on everything.
Marc Jacobs
Finishing is one of the most difficult things to do in cricket. A player can’t be a finisher in just 6 months or one year. You have to be used to that responsibility, keeping on doing what is required from you over a period of time.
MS Dhoni
I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn’t personally sad about finishing a long job.
Carroll O’Connor
When you manage a big team like River Plate or Madrid, they are used to winning titles. The people are happy, but they are used to it. When you have an achievement like I had in Villarreal, reaching the semi-final of the Champions League, finishing second in the league, it’s more than winning a title. It’s more.
Manuel Pellegrini
When I was finishing my PhD, I could just see people who were a bit quicker and brighter and smarter than me and I thought, ‘well they are the people who are going to make the great discoveries.’
Simon Singh
Where I’m from, you focus on finishing school. Even finishing college is seen as a stretch – you just get a job after school, and that’s it.
Barry Keoghan
My journey into modeling began completely by chance. I was in school finishing up my master’s degree in health management and policy when a friend entered me into an online modeling competition.
Philomena Kwao
The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.
Carter G. Woodson
I ran the L.A. marathon and really loved the experience. Communal and wild and a gigantic challenge. Finishing that marathon means I can do more than I think. I think.
Michael Weatherly
Finishing something is the hardest part. You know it’s not as good as you hoped. You know there are plot problems. You know that by finishing it, you’re saying – even if only to yourself – ‘This is the best I can do.’ And because it’s not perfect, that’s really hard.
Antony Johnston
Having three tough finishing holes in a major, you know, you know that, most likely, it’s going to come down to those last three holes. Having a good game plan, a good strategy, and executing obviously is going to be the big key.
Dustin Johnson
In all the time that people have known me, has anyone ever heard me talk about the importance of rushing records or finishing with the most touchdowns? So if that’s never been important to me, then why would that be a motivation to keep playing?
Barry Sanders
When I was finishing ‘Now You See Me 2,’ I remember thinking about exploring the Asian-American identity side of my brain.
Jon M. Chu
I especially remember that on All Souls Day, when so ma

I especially remember that on All Souls Day, when so many people wanted new monuments for the graves, our whole family pitched in. I did the lettering on the stones, my brother did the carving, and my sisters put the finishing touches on them, the gold leaf and all that.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.
Charles McCarry
Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will.
David Duchovny
The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
Gabriela Sabatini
I stay away from straight bench; all the work I do is with dumbbells to protect my rotator cuffs. Then I’ll do a bunch of different pull moves like inverted rows before finishing with some simple internal or external rotations with a band to strengthen my shoulder.
Andrew Luck
But you know, there’s something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention – they go home, they’re finished. They don’t stall, they don’t do their homework in front of the TV.
Dave Eggers
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers
There’s nothing worse than finishing your last take on a movie and thinking, ‘God! I finally nailed who this guy was!’
Jamie Campbell Bower
Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.
Mario Batali
The main thing is confidence. I’m gaining more and more confidence to do whatever I want to do on the basketball court, whether it is shooting threes or sprinting to the rim and finishing or ball handling. I’m confident enough because I have worked on it that I am going to do the exact same things in the game.
Jimmy Butler
We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals.
Donal Logue
I love talking to my friends at uni and seeing what they are doing. They’re just finishing their dissertations, and I kind of wish I could live their life for a second. I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
Cara Delevingne