Race Quotes · Page 55

'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

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

— Melchor Lim

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

— Mamur Mustapha

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

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

— Mats Sundin

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

— J. Philippe Rushton

As I've gotten older, I know I race less, but I as an owner I have the same anxiety and the same…

— Michael Waltrip

Picking on another person in their mind justifies and makes their stature higher. People do it interracially. It's amazing how every race,…

— Rib Hillis

It is bad enough to be white and poor; it is worse still to be black, or brown, and female, and young,…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“I want a driveway so long you couldn’t see the end of it even if you were 26.1 miles into running a…

— Jarod Kintz

I've never watched a race live from Ascot. I used to make sure I didn't miss Black Caviar run, but that wasn't…

— Rashard Lewis

I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged…

— Oscar Pistorius

Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races…

— Ruth Benedict

We don't sell a car, we sell a dream. We are Italy's national team. There are many great soccer teams in our…

— Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

The world has always needed human beings who refuse to believe that history is nothing but a dull, monstrous selfrepetition, a selfperpetuating,…

— Stefan Zweig

Creating harmony amidst diversity is a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century. While celebrating the unique characteristics of different peoples and cultures,…

— Daisaku Ikeda

A Marathon is not about running, it is about salvation. We spend so much of our lives doubting ourselves, thinking we're not…

— Dean Karnazes

When I was running the marathons in Munich, I always trained by myself. Between the demands of graduate work and a young…

— Wolfgang Ketterle

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam…

— Gore Vidal

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, fellow members of the motion picture industry and honored guests: This is one of the…

— Hattie McDaniel

In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race…

— James Agee

The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles.…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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

— Fernando Alonso

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

— Dale Earnhardt

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

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

— Paula Radcliffe

“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

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

— Fernando Alonso

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

— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D

“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

I want to rely on my gut feeling. Isn't that what made great race drivers in the end?

— Max Verstappen

“Success is not a marathon; it's a compilation of short races one building on the success of another.”

— Zane Baker

Every human endeavor, however singular it seems, involves the whole human race.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Michael Schumacher