Race Quotes

• It's been a really worthwhile test, ... We worked on getting into the corners a bit quicker and we made a lot of progress with some improved front fork settings. To lap in 1m 57s on race tyres is a massive step forward and much better than I could have ever expected.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Progress
  • Corners
  • Worthwhile

• The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Earth
  • Hops
  • Last Man

• It was junk. The motor was broken out of place, the front end was smashed. It was only a couple of hours before the race, so I thought we were done.

  

  Dick Trickle
  • Done
  • Couple
  • Broken

• I like being able to race against the other challengers with their cars.

  

  Anthony Collins
  • Race
  • Cars
  • Challengers

• All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense; a nation as Napoleon said, of "shopkeepers", has produced more adventurers, explorers and poets than probably any other in history.

  

  Arthur Bryant
  • People
  • May
  • History

• I have so much respect for my opponents; many of them watched the races as little children and were supporting me!

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Children
  • Respect
  • Opponents

• We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.

  

  Kanye West
  • Race
  • Ants
  • Oxford

• When we're coming up to the race, the Friday, Saturday and Sunday, I always have the same lunch. So that's before the second practice, before qualifying and before the race, I always have a tuna vegetable risotto. The chef makes it slightly spicy, so there's a bit of a kick.

  

  Valtteri Bottas
  • Up
  • Practice
  • Sunday

• Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Universe
  • Air

• It's the risk takers that move the human race forward.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Moving
  • Risk
  • Humans

• Race and hip hop is kind of the elephant in the room.

  

  Martin Johnson Boys Like Girls
  • Race
  • Hip Hop
  • Elephant

• I'm not trying to race the whole men's tour; I just want to race one time. If you know me, which most people on the World Cup do, they know that this is a legitimate goal of mine and not a publicity stunt.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Consciousness is endless, from one incarnation to the next. It simply will and does manifest in other places and times, regardless of what becomes of the human race.

  

  Zeena Schreck
  • Race
  • Doe
  • Next

• The race doesn't always belong to the swift nor the battle to the strong. It belongs rather to those who run the race, who stay the course and who fight the good fight.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • Fight
  • Race
  • Run

• In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

  

  Aristotle
  • Lead
  • Hold
  • Must

• 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 with my grandfather.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • People
  • Race
  • Grandfather

• If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Race
  • Develop
  • Loyalties

• I had a gut feeling that Dance Daily was coming up to it very well. I felt that she would make a little bit of noise in the race. She did.

  

  D. Wayne Lukas
  • Feeling
  • Dance
  • Race

• Yeah, it's an origin story. But you very quickly get into the origin and then it's off to the races. It is an origin story, certainly, but it's not like the movie ends and somebody stretches. It happens pretty quickly and I'm not sure how much I'm allowed to say about it, but I think when people see that first hint, they'll be pretty excited about it.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Stories

• God would be a very selfish god if he gave all the soul to one race. ... When one sings from the heart and it reaches another heart, that's soul.

  

  Little Richard
  • God
  • Heart
  • Soul

• The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Win
  • Race
  • Stop racing

• If you commit yourself to the love of Christ, then that is how you run a straight race.

  

  Eric Liddell
  • Race
  • Commit
  • Love of Christ

• A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Truth
  • Genius
  • Paradox

• I think that part of my optimism comes from the belief that we as a people could actually, regardless of all the disadvantage of the past, regardless of the fact that a lot of other folks got a head start in the race, if we were able to make the race fair right now.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Past

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