Race Quotes · Page 114

The issue of race is not an issue of choice. It's an issue of birth.

— Tony Evans

A player needs recovery time, and it isn't possible to recover from one race in an hour.

— Hima Das

I think I felt pretty alienated, being bigger, being mixed race, being of lower socioeconomic standing.

— Paloma Elsesser

There is no way American sports are any cleaner than cycling.

— Jemele Hill

The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.

— Charles Bradlaugh

Me, if I'm in a long-distance race, I have speed. In the sprint, I don't have so much speed.

— Rivaldo

“Not all ‘whites’ are racists. Not all racists are ‘white.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I've got quite coarse hair for someone who is mixed race.

— Griff

America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I was a kid, my parents never let me use race as an excuse. They'd say, 'When you walk into a…

— Will Packer

We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost,…

— Albert Camus

I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian. That I am still able to be here,…

— Will Rogers

After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their calculating -…

— Jerry Seinfeld

“There were good and bad in every race, no matter the color of a man’s skin. If Adam had learned anything in…

— Anonymous

“Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange…

— Tom Robbins

As I get older I see that running has changed for me. What used to be about burning calories is now more…

— Kristin Armstrong

I've been cursed for delving into the mysteries of life. Perhaps death is sacred, and I've profaned it. Oh, what a wonderful…

— Anonymous

It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that…

— Lafcadio Hearn

Sara Blair's Harlem Crossroads is an important addition to the body of literature that currently exists about Harlem. It brilliantly illuminates the…

— Dawoud Bey

For a quick lap at the Nrburgring, you've probably experienced more in seven minutes...than most people have experienced in all their life…

— Jackie Stewart

People may like what third-party candidates say, because often they are the only ones saying anything, but they usually won't vote for…

— Michael Parenti

I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal…

— Jennifer Gilmore

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will…

— James A. Baldwin

I like to run outdoors. It's the only thing that actually clears my head and allows me to create.

— Leisha Hailey

I have never analyzed a presidential election as much as I did the Trump-Clinton race of 2016.

— Bob Beckel

Nascar will certainly not be one of my challenges in the future.

— Michael Schumacher

The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.

— Adam Weishaupt

I'm trying to live life and drive racecars and be good at what I can be good at.

— Chase Elliott

Hatred for Obama... has more to do with race than anything else.

— Graydon Carter

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to…

— Willie Stargell

I thought about running a marathon a long time ago, but I'm just not a runner

— Shannon Miller

“I’m running a marathon. I won’t be jogging, walking, or sprinting, but I will be overseeing it.”

— Jarod Kintz

Since I was a child I've been looking up to Formula One. Dreaming to be a Formula One driver.

— Charles Leclerc

Race walking is hard. Trying to do it while maintaining a conversation is much harder.

— Bari Weiss

The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.

— Wallace Stevens

Iowa is an amazing place. But I didn't have much race around me. I was definitely not like everyone there.

— Jason Momoa

I run so my goals in life will continue to get bigger instead of my belly.

— Bill Kirby

I still run every other day. Longer at weekends. I probably do 35 miles a week.

— Sebastian Coe

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

— Richard Savage