“Finals are not to be played; they are to be won.”
Alfredo Di Stéfano (1926–2014) Argentine association football player
The Wit and Wisdom of Alfredo Di Stéfano Kindle Location 94.
Speech in Amsterdam, March 12, 1941. Quoted in "The Scourge of the Swastika: A Short History of Nazi War Crimes" - Page 248 - World War, 1939-1945 - 1954
“Finals are not to be played; they are to be won.”
Alfredo Di Stéfano (1926–2014) Argentine association football player
The Wit and Wisdom of Alfredo Di Stéfano Kindle Location 94.
Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Howard Raiffa (1924–2016) American academic
the risk avoiders
Part II, Chapter 8, Third Party Intervention, p. 118.
The Art and Science of Negotiation (1982)
“The process of consumption… is the final act in the economic drama”
Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993) British-American economist
Source: 1940s, Economic Analysis, 1941, p. 614 (rev. ed. 1948) as cited in: Andrew McMeekin (2002) Innovation by Demand. p. 131
Joe Buck (1969) American sportscaster
Calling the final play of Game 7 of the 2016 World Series, when the Chicago Cubs won their first World Series in 108 years, defeating the Cleveland Indians.
2010s
Vyjayanthimala (1936) Indian actress, politician & dancer
In "There's no slowing down for Vyjayanthimala".
“I always wanted to have Mike Mazurki play Hammer… too bad he couldn't act.”
Mickey Spillane (1918–2006) American writer
Crime Time interview (2001)
“It is an act of evil to accept the state of evil as either inevitable or final.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
Volume 1, p. 181
The Prophets (1962)
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Said to portrait painter Samuel Johnson Woolf, cited in Here am I (1941), Samuel Johnson Woolf; this has often been abbreviated: Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.