Race Quotes
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The univeral aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not for the dominant few.
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The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
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Elimination race is my thing. I really enjoy that event.
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It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.
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But I think primarily, it's the fans that make this race.
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Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.
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There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.
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All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and for the lasting good of the present wretched race of slaves. The only possible step that could be taken towards it by the convention was to fix a period after which they should not be imported.
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In my race, there's 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something you gotta get over, and it's what you do, you know.
Gail Devers -
Actors are a race.
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I'm constantly watching my weight for my job, and I've trained so hard this year to be ready for this season-more rigorously than ever - but people who tune in to Formula One have no comprehension of what we have to do to be fit. It's so physical. This year, the car is way faster than when you came to the race. And the physicality has gone up quite a lot, at least 20 to 30 percent. People don't see that. They don't see us as athletes. They just see us driving.
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If at the end of the year you want to be in this race, you've got to start stepping up and getting wins.
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Conversations between parents and kids are important - about race issues, about all kinds of things, about heritage.
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All my life, I have been surrounded by the track. The week I was born, Dad took me to training. I do recall at some stage being pushed around in a pram on a track. I have a lot of inspiration from him. To see him carrying the Sydney Olympic torch really ignited my dream. As a coach, he knows the in and outs of race walking and technique.
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Christianity teaches that the human race is depraved, fallen, and sinful.
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Personally I feel for the fans because I remember the period of time when Michael Schumacher was winning. I remember waking up in the morning to watch the start of the race and then going to sleep, and then waking up when it ended because I already knew what would happen. I am pretty sure a lot of people were doing that today.
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A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of the race.
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Snake has been everything to me. Look at where I was when I started with the company in 1988 and where I'm at now. I mean, he's shown me just about everything on and off the race track.
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The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.
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I still do intense interval training. I like miles and quarters best. In races I can set my mind, and I believe I could break 2:20 again.
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Deciding on when to kick is crucial and depends on how the race is unfolding.
