Race Quotes

4377 Race quotes by 2577 unique authors

People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it… — Ian Thorpe
Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers… — Kieren Perkins
For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every… — Ian Thorpe
Going into that race I was going for the world record, just quietly, but I wasn't feeling at my best all week so it was… — Leisel Jones
Often I visualize a quicker, like almost a ghost runner, ahead of me with a quicker stride. It's really crazy. In races, this always happens… — Gabe Jennings
Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by which… — Charles Babbage
I feel that the recent ruling of the United States Army and Navy regarding the refusal of colored blood donors is an indefensible one from… — Unknown Author
...the existence and increase of our race and nation, the sustenance of its children and the purity of its blood, the freedom and independence of… — Adolf Hitler
The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other. — Christopher McDougall
We will finish the race. — Barack Obama
There are few instincts more natural than the body in full motion as it races across a field or through the trees. — Unknown Author
Running is in my blood-the adrenaline flows before the races, the love/hate of butterflies in your stomach. — Unknown Author
It's amazing how the same pace in practice can feel so much harder than on race day. Stay confident. Trust the process. — Unknown Author
The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me. — George A. Sheehan
When you put yourself on the line in a race and expose yourself to the unknown, you learn things about yourself that are very exciting. — Doris Brown Heritage
No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences. — George A. Sheehan
There is something about the ritual of the race - putting on the number, lining up, being timed - that brings out the best in… — Grete Waitz
O passing angel, speed me with a song, a melody of heaven to reach my heart and rouse me to the race and make me… — Christina Rossetti
The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I have found out the trouble.… — George S. Patton
Exalt the Cross! God has hung the destiny of the race upon it. Other things we may do in the realm of ethics, and on… — Theodore L. Cuyler
...So, take what's inside you and make big, bold choices. And for those who can't speak for themselves, use bold voices. And make friends and… — Jamie Lee Curtis
The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate. — Booker T. Washington
If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started… — William J. Clinton
Seventy-five years. That's how much time you get if you're lucky. Seventy-five years. Seventy-five winters, seventy-five springtimes, seventy-five summers, and seventy-five autumns. When you look… — Eddie Murphy
Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich,… — Kathleen Blanco

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