Race Quotes · Page 69

“Love's only business is to preserve the race, not the individual.”

— Geoffrey Household

Running has made my life worthwhile. I used to be more dead than alive after the personal tragedy in my life.

— Fauja Singh

No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.

— Booker T. Washington

When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds.

— Haile Gebrselassie

A mediocre season for Nelson Piquet as he is now known and always has been.

— Murray Walker

The equality of play was a surprise-it was the most competitive race in the seven-year history of MLS.

— Lamar Hunt

A 10,000m race is like a chess game and you are watching, wondering what's going on and what's going to happen.

— Colin Jackson

When I took up running, it was like meeting God himself. I have been running ever since.

— Fauja Singh

Life is a must race you will encounter to survive the race of hardship. So, move on with your life. Help is…

— Toni Concept

I do a lot of marathons as training runs. If I'm somewhere and there's a marathon, I'll sign up and just go…

— Dean Karnazes

Whenever anyone pulls out of the race, you know, unless they've just been trounced in the days before, there's also - always…

— Elizabeth Edwards

The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let's hope we can avoid dropping the…

— Stephen Hawking

Three half-mile repeats on the track at 5-K race pace with a short recovery jog in between shouldn't scare anyone away-and it…

— Frank Shorter

The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race.

— H. P. Blavatsky

I won a silver medal. But really, I ended up running the fastest race of my life to become part of something…

— Peter Norman

As a driver, it is important to focus on yourself and believe in yourself, and there shouldn't be a reason why, when…

— Max Verstappen

Widespread violence now functions as part of an anti-immune system that turns the economy of genuine pleasure into a mode of sadism…

— Henry Giroux

The suggestion that liberals aren't moralizers is so preposterous it makes it hard for me to take any of them seriously when…

— Jonah Goldberg

We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When art sets racism in the past, no matter how good it is, it allows white people in the audience (and others)…

— W. Kamau Bell

Race was thick in the O.J. Simpson case from the very beginning, but it wasn't evident. And I think the O.J. Simpson…

— Michael Eric Dyson

And if I were the president, I'd go out there and I'd emphasize the things I have done, and I'd say, 'Some…

— Michael Bloomberg

Mary was a virgin and he Bible says that she 'found favor' - that means there must have been others in the…

— Tommy Tenney

When the press writes scare stories about the global labor supply draining jobs from rich to poor places, the story is usually…

— Richard Sennett

I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.

— Amiri Baraka

“a runner can never see the finish line in the middle of a marathon,”

— Henry Cloud

The presidential race should not be a battle of personalities.

— Kayleigh McEnany

“Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.”

— Amit Kalantri

I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it…

— Mary Decker

The modern campus is deeply obsessed by race and gender, and not much else.

— John Leo

“If the race isn't over after you have won, then it wasn't your game!”

— Vishwanath S J

I feel very confident in my skiing. I know I have a good chance to win any race I start.

— Ted Ligety

The thought of how far the human race would have advanced without government simply staggers the imagination.

— Doug Casey

There is no other way to start the season than to win the Daytona 500.

— Jimmie Johnson

Of course, long-distance running has to do with the fact that we're hunters.

— Freeman Dyson

I think it's always better to be in an F1 car because, in general, the car behaves itself.

— Max Verstappen

My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000.

— Cathy Freeman

Mansell is slowing it down, taking it easy. Oh, no he isn't! It's a lap record.

— Murray Walker

Racing is licking your opponent's plate clean before starting on your own

— Tim Krabbe

We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.

— Alfred North Whitehead