Race Quotes · Page 109

You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.

— Frank Shorter

A racist is a man who believes in history, genetics, and his eyes!

— Tom Anderson

Everything in Formula 1 has been sterilised now, the whole thing is controlled too much.

— Nigel Mansell

This is motor racing, and things can change pretty quickly.

— Toto Wolff

My mindset: Run through people, but have a good time doing it.

— George Kittle

Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.

— Jay-Z

When I run on the beach, it's always in slow motion. That's just how I roll.

— Amber Heard

What's really strong with Supercross, looking at it as an underdog. NASCAR is a much older demographic.

— Carey Hart

It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally…

— Anonymous

Running is real. It’s all joy and woe, hard as diamond. It makes you weary beyond comprehension, but it also makes you…

— Jesse Owens

My first proper race was a full marathon in 1987. A work colleague convinced us this was the best way to start…

— Hugh Dennis

Preparation for Monaco is a little different: you definitely build up a little bit slower throughout the weekend and pace yourself. It's…

— Max Verstappen

'Get Out' takes on the task of exploring race in America, something that hasn't really been done within the genre since 'Night…

— Jordan Peele

'Drag Race' really offered me a platform to have a lot of people listen to what I have to show them, and…

— Sasha Velour

I can't tell the difference between the best and the worst 'cause I realize not everybody wants to have sex in the…

— John Waters

In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you…

— Liam Neeson

Honey, you [Michael Jackson] gotta pick a race first. All of a sudden you're a black man, then you're Diana Ross, now…

— Robin Williams

“Know why people run marathons? Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art,…

— Christopher McDougall

“I'm through with you. Yes, I am going to put you down. From now on, I am my own God. I am…

— Anne Moody

When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light…

— Bertrand Russell

Neoliberal violence produced in part through a massive shift in wealth to the upper 1%, growing inequality, the reign of the financial…

— Henry Giroux

We must not descend to the level of those who perpetrated Tuesday's violence by targeting individuals based on their race, their religion,…

— John Ashcroft

Let me tell you, though - there’s a huge difference between Flanders and Paris–Roubaix. They’re not even close to the same. In…

— Chris Horner

I feel like in the races I watched before I got to NASCAR, nobody ran like right next to the wall. And…

— Kyle Larson

The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman

— Hattie McDaniel

To be a part of NASCAR, to have the name behind me is such a big deal.

— Hailie Deegan

No particular race is the enemy. Ignorance is the enemy.

— George Lopez

The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad.

— Richard Arnold Epstein

The present inhabitation of Mars be a race superior to ours is very probable.

— Camille Flammarion

People sometimes forget that a rat race can be won only by a rat.

— Paul Palmer

A lot of ultramarathoners are soloists. They're single and live lives off the grid.

— Dean Karnazes

Life is the only race you'll run where you don't know where the finish line is.

— Steve Farrar

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.

— Emmeline Pankhurst

I’m not playing the race card. I’m playing the rice card.

— Margaret Cho

Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.

— Lance Armstrong

“Run the race as if everything in existence depends upon it, because everything in your existence does.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I do not want to be in the headlines, especially not talking about race. That is not my deal.

— Jordy Nelson

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.

— Kathrine Switzer

We (ultra runners) alternate between depression and stupidity.

— Don Kardong

Many Formula One races last two hours, are really boring and nothing happens.

— Felipe Massa