Race Quotes · Page 96

I pulled a hamstring during the New York City Marathon. An hour into the race, I jumped off the couch...

— David Letterman

To prepare for a race there is nothing better than a good pheasant, some champagne and a woman.

— Jacques Anquetil

By all accounts, the senate race I ran in was a quality race in the wrong year.

— Mike McGavick

Overtaking is nearly as fun as winning races. The rush you get from it is awesome.

— Daniel Ricciardo

I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white.

— Frank Zappa

All the best drivers in the U.S. race NASCAR, so if I want to be the best, that's where I have to…

— Travis Pastrana

I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

— Anonymous

I crave white on white and black, but my thoughts race in glorious technicolour, prodding me awake, whipping away the warm blanket…

— Sarah Kane

Free market capitalism has done more for the soul of the human race than any other system. And it's created the highest…

— Chris Chocola

The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical…

— Theodore Parker

The loser, the fool, is embraced in England because there is a recognition of silliness there that allows a person to keep…

— Roger Rees

Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier…

— Douglas Adams

The times when I am running the best are when it feels effortless. The body is on autopilot, doing what you have…

— Perdita Felicien

“Why does a government agency that has no connection with my community have the right to dictate what is appropriate for it?”

— Simon S. Tam

I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car.

— Nigel Mansell

“Running is analogue. It is hunter-gatherer. It is Palaeo. It is linear. It is long-form thought. It is an uninterrupted conversation with…

— Vybarr Cregan-Reid

It was a very strange, disappointing race in that no one wanted to take it out. That's why I took the lead.…

— Marla Runyan

The way I look at it is, cancer research is absolutely nonpartisan. Cancer is very democratic in the sense that it attacks…

— David H. Koch

Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a…

— Edward Bellamy

My husband once said he'd never met anybody who walked so fast and ran so slowly. As I said, it's a little…

— Jamie Lee Curtis

I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and…

— Eugene V. Debs

I'm this generic, ambiguous scapegoat for white people to call me a race traitor and take out their hostility on. And I'm…

— Rachel Dolezal

I want to fall in love with beautiful women of all races. Rescue somebody every now and then, improve my painting, and…

— William T. Vollmann

You think I'm a pretty good race car driver? Wait until you see my brother. He's the best driver in the family.

— Kurt Busch

The majority of my life is not competing on 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' so if anything, that was unusual.

— Bob the Drag Queen

You don't have to win 'Drag Race' to really win. And I am living proof of that, thank you Mary J. Blige!

— Alyssa Edwards

“Running is the most elemental sport there is. We are genetically programmed to do it.”

— John Jerome

They came in the thousands from the whole human race to pay their respects at his last resting place.

— Richard Thompson

I'm a runner by hobby and by nature of stress relief and staying fit.

— Kate Gosselin

I have a big following in Holland and I think they will come to a lot of the races.

— Jos Verstappen

“Jeff Abbot was once involved in a taxicab race with Charlaine Harris in North Carolina (he did not win).”

— Charlaine Harris

I'm not desperate to stay in Formula One. It needs to be sensible and it needs to be the right deal.

— Nico Hulkenberg

I just feel rejuvenated in such a big way because of these race cars I get to drive.

— Jeff Gordon

One thing I would like to see is a stronger ladder series for up-and-coming American drivers.

— Michael Andretti

I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.

— Winston Churchill

I started out as someone who could not run a mile straight. I called myself a 'run/walker.'

— Andi Dorfman

My dad's white, my mom's black, and I've struggled with being mixed race.

— Rhiannon Giddens

To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it.

— Jenson Button

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

— Jim Harrison