Race Quotes · Page 77

When I am totally race fit, I don't worry about breathing or technique - they take care of themselves.

— Frank Shorter

The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Every day in life there are challenges; whether you're an accountant, a race car driver or whatever you do.

— Justin Allgaier

Moving pictures have become one of the greatest revitalizing forces in race adjustment.

— Oscar Micheaux

Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

— Samuel Gompers

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

— Charles Mengel Allen

Racing has become more show time; we've got to have something new to create interest in the sport.

— Richard Petty

“Death was constant, unprejudiced to age, race, or creed.”

— Jessica Fortunato

We've had people say, "Now when I go to work, I don't feel uncomfortable talking to people of different races, and I…

— Michael Emerson

I keep my weight low, although you need to be able to move your weight around the race car to change the…

— Jenson Button

Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation…

— Dianne Feinstein

I try to help out everyone at NASCAR whenever I can. It will always be a special place for me and certainly…

— Brian France

It always hurts a bit to pick the 'wrong one' in a race as big as the Champion Hurdle, and then, to…

— Tony McCoy

The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self-government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.

— Albert J. Beveridge

You might say that I was the first and caused others to awaken to the sense of their duty in helping deserving…

— Madam C. J. Walker

“Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never decide to cease to exist.”

— Orson Scott Card

The Negro has been here in America since 1619, a total of 344 years. He is not going anywhere else; this is…

— Medgar Evers

The toughest trail I ever ran was the Escarpment in the Catskills of New York State. This was an 18-mile race through…

— Don Kardong

Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the…

— Roger Ebert

Always, some great culture is dying to enrich the soil of new harvests, some civlization is crumbling to rubbish to be the…

— George Edward Woodberry

Yeah, I'm the Brit who isn't Lewis Hamilton that woke up and realised he was good. I got that tag because I…

— Jenson Button

The support is absolutely crucial. If you have the right people helping you in the lead up to a major event, then…

— Chris Hoy

Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks…

— Tom Wolfe

A short term view will lead to a partial and perhaps twisted view of the whole picture. A crucial element may be…

— Max De Pree

The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things

— Anonymous

Formula 1 need to have a good look at itself. As a show, I think we need to put on a better…

— Christian Horner

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

— Anonymous

I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

— Jacky Ickx

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.

— Robert Graves

It don't matter your race just take a blunt to the face.

— Kid Cudi

And the first three cars are all Escorts, which isn't surprising as this is an all Escort race.

— Murray Walker

God was a clever idea ... The human race came up with a winner there.

— J. G. Ballard

I love social media. I think people in NASCAR don't use it enough and there's so much you can do with it.

— Hailie Deegan

The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.

— Martin Amis

I am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running.

— Cathy Freeman

I think NASCAR's coming to Canada now so it'll take on a whole new relevance. Be afraid.

— Samantha Bee

I always loved running… It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.

— Jesse Owens

You aren't allowed to ask at auditions, legally, a person's race.

— David Henry Hwang

Competition breeds excellence, including in the GOP race.

— Mike Huckabee

On the history of black people in Britain, again, our history of race is not America's history of race.

— Kemi Badenoch