Race Quotes · Page 178

It is not how you start the race or where you are during the race-it is how you cross the finish line…

— Robert D. Hales

“Sometimes I'm a black. Not everyone realizes blackness has to be conferred upon you again and again. It's like getting your nails…

— Laura Yes Yes

Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity rises into conscious…

— Elizabeth Blackwell

If the Indy Racing League didn't have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.

— Mario Andretti

In this country, the most popular form of car racing is the huge multibillion dollar industry that's called stock car racing. That's…

— Rachel Maddow

Through F1, I bought my own boat. I learned to fly my own plane and helicopter. And my job with my company…

— Nelson Piquet

Cycling isn’t a game, it's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or…

— Jean de Gribaldy

Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the…

— Mitt Romney

Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make…

— Anonymous

For me, I always think about keeping my upper body relaxed, my hips level, and my right side down on the turn.…

— Brittany Bowe

It's a huge challenge for us to get the (43) car back to Victory Lane, to get the car in the Chase,…

— Robbie Loomis

A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and…

— William Faulkner

Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what…

— Susan Sontag

In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never…

— Anonymous

The Jewish question exists wherever the Jews live, however small their number. Where it does not exist it is imported by Jew…

— Theodor Herzl

Five years after Boston 1967, I went to the Munich Olympics. I realized that major sponsorship could help me create the opportunity.…

— Kathrine Switzer

“Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically…

— William James

I think it's good for sports cars to be united, to be just one. I think it's good for the fans. When…

— Juan Pablo Montoya

I didn't say that the Jews are inferior. I didn't even maintain they are a race. I merely saw that the mixture…

— Alfred Rosenberg

“He was a professional athlete and coach, a Ferrari who lived his life in the fast lane. She was a girl-next-door kind…

— Emily March

Going to college and living with someone of another race gave me a different view of what people have to go through.

— Sue Bird

Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's…

— Quentin Tarantino

In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of…

— Kofi Annan

Nobody had ever lost 462 races and then just won. But Dale Earnhardt Sr. had told me I had the ability, and…

— Michael Waltrip

My prediction for the 2016 race was based on a variety of observational and anecdotal evidence. I listened to Democrats, Republicans and…

— Sharyl Attkisson

Based on my experience, I've seen where unity amongst the races has yielded positive results. I don't see any other way for…

— Richard Aoki

The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no…

— I. F. Stone

The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness both precedes and determines what…

— Marianne Williamson

It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used…

— Christa Wolf

This is so dumb - once time I spray-tanned before a race, and I didn't shower, and I sweated the whole thing…

— Amber Cope

I love running in nature. I don't like running on the streets, I don't like running in the city, I don't like…

— Ziggy Marley

Accepted in Christ, we now run the race 'for the joy that is set before us' rather than 'for fear that comes…

— Timothy Keller

Boston is the cream of the crop of the marathon world. It has such history that you feel such honor just being…

— Summer Sanders

I still love racing and the challenge of it, but at some point, you get to a place where you're perfectly happy…

— Bode Miller

“But there’s an even harder truth to accept: The kind of growth required to move past race is nearly impossible to achieve…

— Phoebe Robinson

I'm just going to go out there and try to win the race. When you go out there trying to go for…

— Ryan Lochte

I've never felt as nervous as I did before a track meet - literally, stomach going crazy - 'cause it was just…

— Sue Bird

Like NASCAR race drivers or PGA golfers, why not require each of the [US presidential] candidates to cover their clothing, briefcases and…

— Jim Hightower

I had to go off the circuit twice to avoid him. I don't know what Rene Arnoux is doing in Formula One…

— Thierry Boutsen

“Yeah, Mel! If she shoves you again, smack her in the face!" bellowed Mika. Kira glared at Mika. "I mean, beat her…

— Katie Mattie