Race Quotes · Page 51

For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to an end.

— Joseph Conrad

Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.

— Nargis Fakhri

As racing drivers, you always have those moments that it gets a bit heated, but then you start from zero again.

— Max Verstappen

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

— Emil Zatopek

When I was a kid, I was a pretty good runner, and there was nothing like winning a race.

— Frank McCourt

For the first 40 yards I am one of the fastest guys. After that, it's a horse race.

— Ray Rice

For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When you have two races in a row, it's really important to keep that mental energy stable.

— Mikaela Shiffrin

The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy…

— Joseph Epstein

The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the…

— Henry Louis Gates

Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.

— Nancy Gibbs

I've been involved in motorsports from the commercial point of view for many years with my involvement with DTM and managing other…

— Toto Wolff

Growing up I've watched Lewis and aspired to have some of his attributes, mainly his speed. His raw pace is probably the…

— Lando Norris

I think the concept of minute restrictions is kind of complicated. I don't think there should ever be minute restrictions. I think…

— Joel Embiid

I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given…

— Carly Fiorina

For some reason, the busier I am at the track, the better I tend to race. I think it's because I don't…

— Kevin Harvick

“Once upon a time they was two girls," I say. "one girl had black skin, one girl had white." Mae Mobley look…

— Kathryn Stockett

In a manner akin to the influence of Tiger Woods on the other side of the Atlantic, Thierry Henry has helped kick…

— Pete Gill

Often in evolutionary processes a species must adapt to new conditions in order to survive. Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly…

— Albert Einstein

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that…

— Henry Louis Gates

“The point of diversity workshops, or multicultural talks, was not to inspire any real change but to leave people feeling good about…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in…

— Emil Zatopek

The love of science, and the energy and honesty in the pursuit of science, in the best of the Aryan races do…

— Matthew Arnold

There was a race that I was running in Mexico City and I was the only high school athlete running against grown…

— Allyson Felix

I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everyone there looks an original.

— George Bernard Shaw

Basically, it is always good for a team if both drivers are very quick.

— Robert Kubica

When you start thinking you may get hurt, it's time to get out of racing.

— Mario Andretti

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. (Ecclesiastes 9:11)

— Bible

I won the Daytona 500. I won these races twice. I knew I didn't need anything cheating on my part.

— Michael Waltrip

I think jogging is bad for your health. All that pressure on the knees and back cannot be good for you.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

— Cass Sunstein

I seem to struggle when it comes to racing on road courses.

— Kyle Larson

Critical race theory is racist. It does nothing to bring us together.

— Marjorie Taylor Greene

The fact that I'm racing, yes, is important, it's my passion, but, it's not my life, racing.

— Alex Zanardi

Trump's problems with race is an old story for New York.

— Jonathan Capehart

Surfers are members of a different race of people from the man in the street

— Nat Young

I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.

— Patrick McHenry

I believe to have been one of the rare drivers to have returned to Ferrari.

— Jacky Ickx

I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.

— Colson Whitehead

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

— Francis Bacon