Race Quotes · Page 104

It's (Phil Niekro's knuckleball) like watching Mario Andretti park a car.

— Ralph Kiner

Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.

— Edward Young

You know, there's problems in racing, but it's not Bob Baffert.

— Bob Baffert

Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.

— J. Philippe Rushton

When I was a kid, Jeff Gordon was invincible and I probably thought he was going to race the rest of his…

— Kyle Larson

I guess it wasn't really part of my story on 'Drag Race' but I'm a trained actor and singer.

— Jinkx Monsoon

I absolutely don't regret going to Nascar and I'm not finished with it. I intend to be back one day.

— Dario Franchitti

I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment... a job.

— Bernard Hinault

We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family…

— Marco Rubio

I try to look for tempo in my run-up to make sure my knees are lifting up instead of going long. That…

— Stuart Broad

Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that…

— Andrew Carnegie

I had started as an average athlete - a normal boy. It took me three years to win a race. I was…

— Emil Zatopek

I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my…

— Jennifer Carpenter

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

As a driver you enjoy winning races, and if you win in the easiest way possible, fine, but in reality we all…

— Allan McNish

If I was 30th in points and not making races and not being competitive in races, I could understand them saying I'm…

— Dale Earnhardt

When we [adoption agency] have a birth mother who is pregnant and she doesn't know the race of the father, she is…

— Rosie O'Donnell

I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the…

— Albert Einstein

When you're out of work and you can't buy a home or you've lost your home and you're worried about paying your…

— Barack Obama

Corporate America doesn't really have an interest in Formula One because there is nothing American in it at this point. It is…

— Alexander Rossi

“No one stands at the beginning of a race and then finds himself at the end having never taken a step forward.…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Vegas is definitely a place where we can win. We had a good run here last year, and I feel even more…

— Greg Biffle

An American should be able choose to work in a place where he is with his kind of people and not find…

— Strom Thurmond

“You were born a winner, a warrior, one who defied the odds by surviving the most gruesome battle of them all -…

— Suzy Kassem

I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race.

— Peter Steele

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

— Booker T. Washington

I've made a lot of friends over the years through racing, but we weren't necessarily teammates.

— Juan Pablo Montoya

I’m not investigating race as much as I’m investigating intimacy.

— Claudia Rankine

We believe in healthy, hearty laughter -- at the expense of the whole human race, if needs be. Needs be.

— H. Allen Smith

Baby is just the thrill of the chase but I've got a feeling that I'm winning this race!

— John Legend

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

— Freya Stark

Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world...

— Rebecca West

One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the…

— Alain Prost

If you commit yourself to the love of Christ, then that is how you run a straight race.

— Eric Liddell

They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.

— Bob Dylan

“Even if you look a little unusual, you're a member of the human race.”

— Lizzie Velásquez

Every racing driver in the world dreams of making it to F1, there's only 22 spots on the grid.

— Susie Wolff

When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition.

— Maxine Hong Kingston

Each congressional race really depends upon the candidates and how they carry the message.

— George W. Bush