Last Chance Quotes

Our cause being almost lost, something decisive and great must be done.

Once it gets to two strikes, it's time to battle, put something in play, and try to get the job done.

Everyone remembers the winner; nobody remembers who finishes second. But quite a lot, I seem to be right around the hunt with nine holes to play.

When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?

Your time is up. Go now. Don't wait until there has been more death and destruction

Everyone who turns up on 'X Factor' does it because a door has been closed to them at some time in their lives, and this is the only shot they have got.

One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.

All I could think of was we were about to start filming for the last final weeks of the TV show and here I am in the hospital, so I missed the final weeks, and a couple days later, sore stomach and all I got on the horse we started filming.

It's not over until it's over.

I won't be managing the Mets. I am closing the door on managing the Mets and probably everybody else.

No battle is worth fighting except the last one.

The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone.

A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.

Right before 'Brian's Song' there was a period when I was very despondent, broke, depressed; my first marriage was on the rocks. The role of Gale Sayers had been cast with Lou Gossett, and then he hurt himself playing basketball. I was called in to read for the role. I was their last choice, and I knew it.

It's a miss and make league. As long as you have that confidence to take that last shot, knowing - I'm pretty sure you can't go home and sleep at night knowing you had the opportunity to take that shot and you shied away from it.

I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there.

If it's not too late, make it a cheese-burger

I'm not dying until I do.

It's the Playoffs. This is what you play for.

You never know when it is your last game or your last tournament.

If I'm only going to play one more match, I want to take a wicket with every ball, not try and defend a boundary.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.

You're never out of the game until you've lost the final point.

Every fight could be my last.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.