Race Quotes · Page 71

Any car which holds together for a whole race is too heavy.

— Colin Chapman

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

— Stephen Vizinczey

I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.

— Haile Gebrselassie

'Drag Race' is the escape that everybody needs - gay, straight, or otherwise.

— Michelle Visage

I had the offer to race Stock Cars. I refused the first time.

— Rubens Barrichello

I always enjoy street circuits, especially Monaco, and I've always gone well there.

— Robert Kubica

It is amazing how many thoughts can race through your head in a minute.

— Lauren Gibbs

“Intolerance breeds hatred. Hatred creates divisions. Divisions destroy common grounds.”

— Mamur Mustapha

The changes in thinking about same-sex marriage have come slowly at first and then in rapid course. If such change is possible…

— Barack Obama

Democrats do have a historic race going. Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama. Normally, when you see a black man or a woman…

— Jon Stewart

Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic,…

— Ernie Harwell

Everything about the compound there at Hendrick Motorsports just down the street is perfect. Everything down to the way they mow the…

— Kyle Larson

Just as you are told to run your own race and be best runner YOU can be, you should live your own…

— Anonymous

The only event that counts is the Tour, it's the only race that all the media go to. It's far more important…

— Eddy Merckx

The way 'TATB' depicts race, and how it normalizes our differences, is actually one of the things I am most proud of.

— Lana Condor

There is a stigma in our sport that men are the better drivers. People think that, because the men compete in two-man…

— Elana Meyers

When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border…

— Samuel Rutherford

The road, more than simply a system of regulations and designs, is a place where many millions of us, with only loose…

— Tom Vanderbilt

Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for…

— Whitney M. Young

“For years, I declined to fill in the form for my Senate press credential that asked me to state my 'race,' unless…

— Christopher Hitchens

I remember my mentor once said, "The low road is crowded. The high road is wide open. So let's try to take…

— Jason Silva

Evolutionary biologists often avoid using the term "race" because there is so much racist baggage that comes with the term. However, they…

— Elliott Sober

I felt very low. I had been unmasked only that morning by Jay Cee herself, and I felt now that all the…

— Sylvia Plath

“The fear had precedent. Toward the end of the Civil War, having witnessed the effectiveness of the Union's 'colored troops,' a flailing…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Life is almost like marathon, you have to sustain till the end and manage to be ahead of the rest.

— Melchor Lim

A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

— J. Philippe Rushton

People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.

— Dale Earnhardt

If you challenge yourself and try to be the best in all areas, you have to be a complete driver.

— Fernando Alonso

When I was young, I would go to the races and it was an unbelievable feeling when you'd watch them race.

— Mats Sundin

“Building something that matters is a marathon, not a sprint.”

— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D

After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.

— Fernando Alonso

“I mean, that’s the future, isn’t it? In the future we’ll all be able to look past race.”

— Celeste Ng

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength.

— Amanda Burton

“in 2007, Suni Williams ran the Boston Marathon in space, which took her only 4 hours and 24 minutes.)”

— Chris Hadfield

When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.

— Alain Prost

Every time I go out and race it's a goal to go out and run faster than I've done before.

— Paula Radcliffe

The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race.

— Gerald M. Loeb

I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America.

— Richard Rodriguez

I have really enjoyed my time at Ferrari, not just because of the successes.

— Michael Schumacher