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I always say that when you're on the road, you're seven points down automatically. We want to finish undefeated and that's going to be hard to do.

If the demands of the business allow for employees to finish at 5pm to watch the matches, it can be a great morale boosting opportunity,

If we make breaks we need to finish them off.

If we make breaks we need to finish them off. We need to be clinical enough but also composed enough that if the opportunity's not there, then we have the patience to attack where they are weak again.

If this was NASCAR and we had bumpers I'd have won. I thought the finish line was a little bit ahead of me. Then they said, 'It's over.' Really? It would have been exciting, one more lap.

If we win, no matter what, (at least) it's coming back to Jersey. If they win, they have a chance to finish it off (in Indianapolis) and their crowd and everything is going to be in their favor. (Tonight is) a very pivotal game.

Greg Ostertag had a tremendous finish for us. He was able to block up the middle and keep them from getting on top of the basket.

He has come into his own and can swim in the major events. Our goal is to have the boys' team finish in the top 10 and we should accomplish that goal.

He has fun out there. It's fun for him because he dominates the sport on that level. I think one more year, come back and finish up school, it's not going to hurt him.

He is coming up with some key plays for us. And at the offensive end, he is doing things that help him finish at the basket. When a player plays extended minutes, you fall into that rhythm. Kwame has set himself up to have this sort of success.

He was an underdog all the way. It was real surprising for him to finish second.

He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.

He has a strong record when it comes to supporting our troops. He believes we should continue to give our troops the resources they need to finish the job in Iraq, so we can bring them home as soon as possible.

He had a talk with us in Toronto after the first half, ... And he said, 'You know, pretty much you can tuck your tail and finish off having a bad year, or you can flip this thing around and gain experience and learn from going out there to fight.'

He will hopefully be a Titan for a number of years and finish his career here.

He will try to do the best he can and try to finish as high as possible. The last week of a grand tour is always the hardest and that's the experience that he's really lacking. After two weeks of what we've seen, it's been very positive.

He worked very hard this season. It was an outstanding finish to his career.

I'm a lot more cautious. It's more important to just finish every race, which gets a little boring at times, but I want to win the points, so I do what it takes to win instead of just going all out and trying to wreck and whatever.

Going undefeated was not a goal of anyone on this team. In the grand scheme of things, one loss does not mean that much. We didn't finish a lot of chances early which could have put the game out of reach.

Going forward, (McGrady) is going to have missed 35 games and a few more by not being able to finish the games. Most of those games were home games. On top of that, he had a period in January and February, he was healthy enough. We're going to need him to be healthy and playing very, very well for us to make the improvement we want to make going forward.

Going into the last race, you always want to run strong, but it's also important to be safe. I've had quite a bit of experience at Fontana, so there really shouldn't be too many surprises. I should have won there a couple of times, but circumstances didn't allow it. I really expect the #83 car to be competitive in the race. Toyota has made some big improvements, and we were able to hang with the leaders on a big track for the first time at Chicago. So, I think we should be able to finish the season on a high note.

The owner of the van moved to Nebraska, and he's supposed to be visiting here so we can finish shooting the shots where we need the van.

The Pac-10 is the best conference in the nation with USC and Stanford having won each of the last three national championships. It is our goal to start climbing the ladder in the conference and finish in the upper half of the league.

His points didn't come as easy as you might think. They were physical with him and he had to finish some tough shots. He did a good job in getting us off to a good start.

When we finish the season, I tell all the players at our breakup dinner there are three things they need to do to improve. They need to get with a golf professional and fine-tune (their game), they need to practice and they need to compete. That's the way to improve and get better in the future.

When we finish this house, I'm going to cut a hole in that wall and put my story in it.

He's just getting into racing shape to go with these horses. With his third-place finish in the Breeders Crown last year, he showed he could be a top horse. Hopefully, he improves off this race for the final.

He's a special ball player. He's got a great court savvy about him and an uncanny ability to finish around the rim. He does all the little things. He's a good passer and he can play defense. He's the type of kid that responds to the challenge, and he has for us all year.

Hopefully, they can finish here during the last five weeks. Because it's been a special year, thus far.

Hopefully we can finish up strong. I guess every chance I have to help the team this weekend, I will take it.

He's been a little under the weather, and he hasn't wrestled his best in the last few matches. We expect him to wrestle better than what he showed tonight. He's got to step it up now and finish strong.

He's gong to have to pick it up and finish with a flurry.

If I put another good round together tomorrow, I think I'll be all right. Hopefully, I'll get off to a better start and finish it off just as good.

I finish it in the pan and flame it in cognac table side and serve.

I finally hit that green. I've been trying for three years. I finally hit it high enough and it was nice to see it finish so close.

Whatever the reason is, I hope we can finish talking about the Olympics. It's gone, it's behind us. The schedule wasn't proper for players who went there and there is some fatigue in a lot guys' play right now.

This was not one of our better days and was not the way I thought we would finish this tournament.

We can finish as high as seventh or eighth and then we would be playing either Miami or N.C. State. If we can build on some of the things we've done well the last couple of games and get some momentum going for the ACC tournament, then we will feel confident about our chances.

We can finish games, and we can close out a game. That's how you do it, and whether it's close or not, as long as you get the 'W' that's all that matters.

We can finish our limits here, or we can motor up to Hickory Creek and see if they're biting like they were yesterday.

We can finish with a good record in conference and give the second half of our year some meaning to it.

We can have a strong finish to the season if we play each game with the intensity and teamwork that was exhibited against McCook.

He made some huge saves at key times. We couldn't finish and we couldn't raise our level. We knew they were going to play well. We did the same thing to them in Ottawa.

There is no better feeling than to finish your high school career knowing you were a member of the top team in the state. There is nothing like it.

He is a driver with talent, ability and maturity, he manages to finish all his races. My record is going to be in good hands. Everything happened very quickly in my career. It was a very great honour for me to break Jim Clark's record (as youngest champion),

He is just a versatile guy that can be moved around and used in any situation. Right now, he is our guy to finish games. I think so far he has done a pretty good job.

We talked about scoring in the first inning because we realize how important it is for us. We exploded out, and made a statement immediately. We couldn't quite finish it, but we did get to play everybody. Emily (Turner) wasn't as sharp as she has been, but she was still in total control except for one pitch.

We talked about that in practice the day before in preparation. We had to still attack and play our game and we didn't do that because we missed shots early. We got some good looks inside and didn't finish. We need to finish those looks inside.

We talked about the fact that rebounds would be the difference in the game. We were getting out-rebounded at halftime and to finish the rebound with over 50 rebounds just says so much about our heart, effort and determination.

He looked better than I thought he would. I couldn't ask for anything more. I told him he did better in his first fight than I did. I didn't know how to finish my opponent and Enrique did.

He looked just as strong as he did in the early innings, he hadn't lost any velocity, he had the fire in his eyes and he looked like he could finish it off.

He envisions somewhere like 100 hours between Episode III and Episode IV with a lot of characters that we haven't met but have been developed in other novels and other things. So we're really excited about that because I think finally we can have the opportunity to answer everybody's questions once and for all by the time we finish the series.

He doesn't have to have the ball passed to him to have a great night - he goes and gets it. He could finish a game with 25 points and 20 rebounds without having the ball passed to him.

We took the lead and it looked as though we could press on and finish them off. But we just lacked the potency in the final third.

We're pretty excited about Justin. He made the medal round in a tough bracket. Of course, he wanted to finish higher, but this give him experience for next year and that is priceless.

We just have to continue to play hard like we've been doing and dig ourselves out of this hole. We just need to learn how to finish up games.

Joe (Simpson) came up and said, 'Enjoy it. (The novelty) lasts about a month and then it's just baseball again,' ... And for me, that was pretty much right on. It was about a month and then it was more like, these are my teammates and have been and let's finish out the season and win the World Series.

Joey wrestled a very controlled match. He controlled the action from the start to the finish and is psychologically in a great state of mind for this tournament.

Jon Burke had a solid round. He was 3-under with six left, but made a double on a par 3, then bogeyed the tough par-3 17th to finish at even par.

My philosophy's going to be if I can make them quality, I don't have to finish the racks. I don't like to rush my shot, so I'm going to try to knock down the ones that I can shoot in 60 seconds.

My personal expectation is that I definitely want to finish as the best point guard in the NBA, and that translates into us winning, ... If I'm the best point guard in the NBA, it means that we're winning and we're a playoff contending team. It's just motivation for me to know that a lot of people have me low on the totem pole right now. I'm just trying to prove them wrong.

That 69 really set the tone and gave me confidence to finish this thing off,

I want to win and finish in the top 20 (on the money list). I'll know the courses a little better this year and have a better idea how to travel. I feel like I'm better prepared.

I want to thank these guys for pulling my big butt across this finish line.

I watched Bent and I thought I could finish second to her. I knew I could do well. I changed a lot from yesterday.

I was well pleased with the finish more than anything else.

I was coming off the bench with fresh legs, so I was able to get open looks and finish plays. Their post players are good and aggressive, but I was able to be more mobile. They were more tired.

I was down one break in the second set 3-5 but I used my experience to get back to five-all and knew this would give me a chance to finish the match in two sets. I haven't looked too far into the draw but now I play (Noam) Okun and I have to treat this match with full focus and concentration.

I was disappointed that I couldn't finish my round up because the course was just incredible, ... You can already see the local flavor in the course. It looked tremendous.

I was cramping and I just wanted to finish the race.

Lamar is a guy who really wants to be out there and what's happening to him is clearly not something he can control, ... Trust me, we wish we knew what was wrong so we could fix it. But right now, I'm concerned because he can't finish a game.

Like I say every week when we lose, we move the ball up and down the field on teams, but we just can't finish the drives because we end up beating ourselves.

Lionel hurt him. . . . We just couldn't finish him. People know who he is now.

Lindsey gave us an unbelievable lift. It was great to get that rest. It allowed us to get back fresh to finish out the game.

Let me make this as clear as I can. When I entered this race, I made a promise to stay in it to the finish line. And I keep my promises," ()

Marshall County was the best defensive team we faced all year. We just couldn't finish in the first game. We missed a lot of shots.

Marshall put a lot of pressure on us. We had a tough time getting it out of our zone. We did have a couple opportunities, but we didn't finish around the net.

Some of the best teams have rocky starts and finish on top. I just can't wait to show everyone how good we actually are.

Some of the prongs are not down on the stone. The stone setter didn't finish his job.

That definitely came to mind when we started off thinking about the possibility of being in the Fiesta Bowl, the fact that we started off there in the national championship and we can finish there. I think it's kind of fitting.

I returned the call (and it was Jim Gregory of the selection committee) and found out I'd been selected. Needless to say, I didn't finish the round. I put birdies down for the 17th and 18th holes.

I respected Greg a lot. We had some real ding-dong battles - especially in that 1983 Tour of Lombardy.... The finish was so close.

I sat beside Mandy at the Pac-10 Media Day (in November) and we left early because no one was asking us any questions. On the cab back to the airport we made a promise to each other that we wouldn't finish last. We took that to the rest of the team and that's been a tribute to them.

I sat in a small room at school and came up with an answer to the problem. The girl turned around and was able to finish the 6th grade. That's an experience I never did forget and made me stretch more than I wanted to.

Irwin and Scherer pretty well dominated. Those two are wrestling about the best they can right now. Kiefer comes into the tournament 2-0, and coming off mono to finish second. That's phenomenal for him.

I said to my caddie that I needed to finish well to get ahead of Barry in case the thunderstorms arrived.

Starting 0-2 at the beginning of the season isn't very good for the morale, ... Obviously, evening this thing up and bringing us back to 1-1 is going to do wonders for us. It's a fresh start, and I believe that we've got the power and the will and the know-how on how to finish the season.

Starting from the back was a disadvantage. But we drove through the field and then stayed in the lead draft and kept our nose clean most of the day. It really looked like we were going to have a good, solid finish until something happened to the #2 car (Kurt Busch). I don't know if he got into the wall or if someone turned him into the fence but he came down in front of us and knocked the nose off the car. Our chance for a win was done after that.

Starting off my career, I wasn't a good free throw shooter, and I worked at it and worked at it, and now I want to go up there and shoot free throws, and now... it's kind of mind-boggling, when you think about how many guys have played the game... when I finish playing and I look back on it, I think it'll be huge. Right now I'm still playing the game, it's kind of tough to really stop and think about it.

Stern's finish against Leicester was top drawer and since he has been back from Derby he has been like a breath of fresh air.

Record wise, I knew we would have a winning record coming into this season, but I figured maybe we'd finish around 14-8. We had good kids, seven with experience, but we did much better than I thought we would. We did great, a lot better than expected. I certainly can't complain.

Recently I have been fighting more often with injuries than with my opponents. It's hard to retire from this sport, but I want to finish my career at the summit and leave the way open for my successors.

Reed and Phil compose one of the best doubles teams in the state. Our team will miss these two next year, both as athletes and examples. One thing I do know is Reed and Phil will do what they can to finish their career off with a bang.

Regardless of what you all were told, when you basically tell somebody with six games left that they?re not going to be here next year, I think it?s pretty tough to finish the year out.

Really, the last two ballgames have been better. Against (South Bend) Adams, the first three quarters, we played maybe as well as we have all season, but just didn't finish it off; and then against Marian, we played well again, then hit a dead spot, but the kids did a nice job of not having the attitude of 'here we go again.' They made some defensive stops and got it turned back in the right direction.

Staying here and helping this team get back to .500 is a possibility, and it would be a great thing if we were able to do that, ... I want to help them do that, and, in the meantime, hopefully work something out so I could finish my career here.

Steven will feed anybody. It's whether they want to go to it and finish it that makes the difference.

Pine is porous, and you have to work it in and blend it for a uniform look. A good finish is the hardest part.

Part of gearing up for the playoffs is playing well. So we lost that game. We've got five more to play and if we catch up, we catch up. If we don't, we'll be third and finish from there.

Oregon is near impossible to beat at home, under any circumstances. Even if you come with your best team, that's a tough thing to do. But based on Washington's finish indoors, they have a great team, and if they show up with all of their people, they're going to be tough.