Race Quotes · Page 97

Marathon running is a terrible experience: monotonous, heavy, and exhausting.

— Veikko Karvonen

We at Ferrari are a small, dynamic company, and we show what Italy can do.

— Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

If I weren't skateboarding, I'd love to race cars. I like anything that's fast and active.

— Ryan Sheckler

Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand.

— Charles Kingsley

Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?

— Mark Twain

A motto of the human race: Let me do as I like, and give me approval as well.

— Idries Shah

“The human race, it seems, is run faster than the speed of life.”

— Anthony P. Mauro, Sr

You can't sprint every lap of a race because you'd be burned out, you'd tire the engine and the brakes.

— George Russell

I'm not naturally a person that wants to exercise, but I find running is something I can do wherever I am in…

— Katherine Jenkins

Police departments are under enormous political pressure to hire based on race, despite existing efforts to recruit minorities, on the theory that…

— Heather Mac Donald

I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things,…

— Andre Norton

I love the idea of biracial. I actually don't use the word biracial. I tend to use mixed. Biracial to me accentuates…

— Mat Johnson

When I jumped in a go-kart at three or four, with my friends, I was super fast without anyone really teaching me.

— Carlos Sainz Jr

“Seal the borders of my body to pain, seal my eyes, mouth, belly to any hunger not my own. I rename myself…

— Shailja Patel

I wanted kids to know that it's cool to be in a ski race in the morning and to go play in…

— Ted Ligety

As a former track cyclist I know only too well the risk of crashing. You don't dwell on it when you are…

— Chris Hoy

Running cleared the day's cobwebs from my mind and focused my thinking, and gave me time and space to sort out anything…

— Peter Snell

Nobody says Nico Rosberg is only in F1 because his dad was a famous racing driver who funded his karting career and…

— Susie Wolff

Everything in Louisiana is about layers. There are layers of race, layers of class, layers of survival, layers of death, and layers…

— Don Lemon

Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging…

— Horace Mann

My recommendation is to try and do the best you can in go-karting to be spotted by a big name like Red…

— Carlos Sainz Jr

We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together…

— Dorothy Height

Every runner has a specific motivation and inspiration for running a marathon. This year, all 36,000 of us will 'run together' to…

— Meb Keflezighi

I try and direct environmentally . So that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone…

— Cameron Crowe

We never discuss race in this country until something bad happens.

— Charles Barkley

I believe that we have to be so race-conscious in this day and age.

— Nicole Ari Parker

Supporting segregation need not be racist. One can believe in segregation and believe in equality of the races.

— Ward Connerly

“The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's how the smart money bets.”

— Damon Runyon

Formula One cars are very difficult to drive, and we need all of our skills.

— Jean-Eric Vergne

People tend to prefer their own race online in terms of the volume of messages.

— Christian Rudder

It is not gender, nor age, nor race, but your ability to work hard at what you love.

— Cory Doctorow

I knew I was going to have to come with fire, passion and pride in every single race.

— Caeleb Dressel

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

— Charles Caleb Colton

From 'Chappelle's Show' to 'Tosh.0,' there's so much race comedy. It's overdone.

— Eric Andre

Money can be more of a barrier between people than language or race or religion.

— Vera Caspary

A miler's kick does the trick...A miler's kick does the trick...

— Rod Dixon

Just under 10 seconds for Nigel Mansell. Call it 9.5 seconds in round numbers.

— Murray Walker

So many are quick to judge by race, they forget their own.

— Anonymous

When I grew up, my race was not a thing. My identity was in my class. It was not about colour on…

— Michaela Coel

I didn't really ever race for points growing up, and so I had to learn that.

— Ricky Stenhouse Jr