A Quote by Lanny Bassham

Winners are convinced they will finish first. The others hope to finish first.

Lanny Bassham

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Lanny Bassham
American - Athlete
Born: January 2, 1947

[T]he race is long - to finish first, first you must finish.

Garth Stein

The best advice on writing was given to me by my first editor, Michael Korda, of Simon and Schuster, while writing my first book. 'Finish your first draft and then we'll talk,' he said. It took me a long time to realize how good the advice was. Even if you write it wrong, write and finish your first draft. Only then, when you have a flawed whole, do you know what you have to fix.

Dominick Dunne

Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.

Garry Shandling

Maybe it will be difficult, but I want to finish school. My parents want me to finish school, and I am pretty sure I will. I will not go to university; I will turn professional when I finish school.

Matteo Manassero

In order to finish first, you first have to finish.

Stirling Moss

To finish first, you must first finish.

Rick Mears

To finish first you must first finish.

Rick Mears

The boys are so powerful off of the baseline now that they don't have to come to the net to finish points. That's the reason we went to the net. To finish the point. Nowadays, even the big guys can hit winners four feet behind the baseline.

Boris Becker

Leaders need to remember that the point of leading is not to cross the finish line first. It's to take people across the finish line with you. For that reason, leaders must deliberately slow their pace, stay connected to their people, enlist others to help fulfill the vision, and keep people going. You can't do that if you're running too far ahead of your people.

John C. Maxwell

After you finish the first 90% of a project, you have to finish the other 90%.

Michael Abrash

Learn a lot about the world and finish things, even if it is just a short story. Finish it before you start something else. Finish it before you start rewriting it. That's really important. It's to find out if you're going to be a writer or not, because that's one of the most important lessons. Most, maybe 90% of people, will start writing and never finish what they started. If you want to be a writer that's the hardest and most important lesson: Finish it. Then go back to fix it.

Tad Williams

There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a first draft and I'm nowhere near done.

Heidi Julavits

If you want to finish, sometimes you can't just finish. You gotta finish fast!

Eric Thomas

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