Firsts Quote by Garth Stein

“This is a rule of racing: No race has ever been won in the first corner; many have been lost there.”

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What I want now is what I've always wanted.

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“There is no dishonor in losing the race, Don said. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose. ~p 227”

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It’s so hard to communicate because there are so many moving parts. There’s presentation and there’s interpretation and they’re so dependent on each other…

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“This is what I love to do: I love to run through a field of wet grass that has not been mowed recently, I love to run, keeping my snout low to the ground so the grass and the sparkles of water cover my face. I imagine myself as a vacuum cleaner, sucking in all the smells. all the life,…

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There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.

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In racing, they say that your car goes where your eyes go. The driver who cannot tear his eyes away from the wall as…

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When I return to the world, I will be a man. I will walk among you. I will lick my lips with my small, dexterous tongue. I will shake hands with other men, grasping firmly with my opposable thumbs. And I will teach all people that I know. And when I see a man or a woman or a child…

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My soul has learned what it came to learn, and all the other things are just things. We can't have everything we want. Sometimes,…

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I hear hundreds of years of life. I hear wind and rain and fire and beetles. I hear the seasons changing and birds and…

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“What I have always liked best is when he talks about having no memory. No memory of things he'd done just a second before. Good or bad. Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any success in automobile racing, a driver must never remember. Which is why…

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