Race Quotes · Page 86

To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.

— Jesse Owens

I'm too tired to reign over vampirekind, let alone enslave the human race.

— Heather Brewer

If there are differences in the race pace it is normally because the tyre is overheating on my side.

— Valtteri Bottas

I've never seen a NASCAR race; I've seen an Indianapolis 500 race.

— Cheech Marin

All these systems are in place for the black race to fail, to always be underneath.

— Devin McCourty

Every time I bomb out, I have to come back. I have a feeling after a bad race that my next one…

— Bill Rodgers

Every time I run, it's with the mindset that if I die at this race it's OK.

— Yuki

Schumacher wouldn't have let him past voluntarily. Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.

— Murray Walker

“Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never decide to cease to exist.”

— Orson Scott Card

Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and…

— Richard Francis Burton

You might say that I was the first and caused others to awaken to the sense of their duty in helping deserving…

— Madam C. J. Walker

The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self-government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.

— Albert J. Beveridge

I just try to go out there and be who I am and compete and bring home as many trophies as I…

— Kyle Busch

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

— William Hazlitt

We've had people say, "Now when I go to work, I don't feel uncomfortable talking to people of different races, and I…

— Michael Emerson

I keep my weight low, although you need to be able to move your weight around the race car to change the…

— Jenson Button

“Before you were born, and were still too tiny for the human eye to see, you won the race for life from…

— Suzy Kassem

“During your first week as a runner, you might run thirty second intervals interspersed with ninety seconds of walking, but after a…

— Jill Angie

We are delighted with today’s State Supreme Court ruling allowing marriage equality in California. It is a true testament to advancing equality…

— Karen Bass

I pledge to invest in women because I believe it offers one of the greatest returns on investment. I am committed to…

— Sara Blakely

I heard friends and strangers saying, "You don't look Arab - what are you supposed to be?" It really is a tired…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

If we move away from either/or thinking, and if we think, okay, every day of my life that I walk out of…

— Bell Hooks

The more serious poetry of the race has a philosophical structure of thought. It contains beliefs and conceptions in regard to the…

— Joseph Alexander Leighton

The key is to trust in your preparation. You have done all you can, so focus on that fact. You will remain…

— Chrissie Wellington

Regardless, we are a two career household, and it's Dario's season, and I'm really excited about going racing.

— Ashley Judd

Obviously being third in the Formula 1 world championship would be crazy.

— Charles Leclerc

I ran a 100-mile marathon, and I was powered by coconut water.

— Jesse Itzler

These sorts of conversations should be second nature, it shouldn't be hard to talk about race.

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock

I have ten marathons under my belt, including four New York races and one Boston.

— Harvey Mackay

Once in a great while I miss the racing, the feeling of winning. That rush. That adrenaline.

— Tyler Hamilton

In the race of faith, stay focused upon Christ, not the other runners, nor the spectators.

— Steven J Lawson

Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve.

— Robert Redford

I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.

— Bill Cosby

When the race gets hard to run. It means you just can't take the peace.

— Bob Marley

It was always a dream for me to come to Jordan. Of course I want to be back in Formula One.

— Jos Verstappen

The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.

— Goldwin Smith

The whole of religion has been one uniform curse to the human race.

— Richard Carlile

As the cancellation of the German Grand Prix indicates, Germany is a terrible market for Formula One.

— Bernie Ecclestone

I can't imagine what kind of problem Senna has. I imagine it must be some sort of grip problem.

— Murray Walker

I prefer just a women's race. It's a totally different game mentally.

— Paula Radcliffe