Race Quotes - Page 24

• There's no better feeling, even if I've won a race, than recording a personal best. It's setting yourself personal goals, but also realistic goals.

  Jenny Meadows

  Goal, Feelings, Realistic

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I've got a strength and conditioning coach, a weights coach, but I've also got a nutritionist, a physiotherapist and a masseur available to me if I need it. It's quite a good network. I've also got sports scientists who record the technical information, so that, after the race, we can analyse the video and check comparisons between, not only me and the other competitors, but me and my best performance. I couldn't do it without these guys, but I'm the one who gets all the credit.

  Liam Tancock

  Sports, Guy, Needs

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I set goals, but they're mostly very personal goals. I never try and set a goal where 'I want to win this,' or 'I want to do this,' where other people can affect what I do. If I want to swim a new best time, I sit down and work out the best way of doing that. Whether I can shave a few tenths of a second off a turn or the start, my goal is putting them all together in a race. That's the way I set my goals.

  Liam Tancock

  Winning, People, Work Out

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• In the build-up to a race I begin practising two days beforehand with two other team members. We have an hour and a half practise run together. Then on the next day we have another practise in two separate hour long sessions. On the actual day of competition we do a warm-up run in the car before the race.

  Liz Halliday

  Running, Team, Next Day

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• The satisfaction of achieving goals is the greatest thing for me. There is nothing like a great race or ride that gives you an amazing boost. It is very rewarding when you win or do well.

  Liz Halliday

  Winning, Giving, Goal

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I worked closely with Steve Peters, the British Cycling team's psychologist, and we came up with a strategy of dealing with the pressure. It basically involved displacing the negative thoughts with visualisation. Not a complicated technique, but very effective if done properly. I just kept running through the race in my head over and over so that I wouldn't let the distractions around me put me off.

  Chris Hoy

  Running, Team, Cycling

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• The support is absolutely crucial. If you have the right people helping you in the lead up to a major event, then you know when you're lining up to start the race you have them there with you, willing you on. And I'm not only referring to the coaches, mechanics, physios, administrators, but also family and friends.

  Chris Hoy

  People, Support, Family And Friends

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• When you're on your own you have control over most of the variables involved in the preparation and the race itself, whilst in a team event you are only a part of the overall picture. The real upside of being part of a team is the fact that when you're successful in a race you can share the celebrations together.

  Chris Hoy

  Real, Team, Successful

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Race, and the discussion of it brings out the bad, the good and the crazy in us.

  Cornelius Eady

  Crazy, Discussion

  "Breaking into Song: An Interview with Cornelius Eady". Interview with Alexis Orgera, www.anmly.org.

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• Some people say they're gathering DNA. Perhaps they're gathering it for the future when the human race is stronger or weaker, who knows. That's science fiction and mere speculation.

  Alex Jones

  Dna, People, Stronger

  Source: www.dailykos.com

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• Race is a core reality of American experience. Media images on television need to reflect that reality to help people who consume media and who don't have the day-to-day, face-to-face contact with others, or where that contact is minimal, to help them have a greater appreciation of other experiences and how they're all part of the American fabric.

  Darnell M. Hunt

  Appreciation, Reality, Media

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Representation is very important to everyone, but especially to girls like me, and people like me, whether it be because of my body, because of my race, because of my skin color, because of my awkwardness or where I come from.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Girl, Skin Color, People

  "Gabourey Sidibe is both fan, star when it comes to 'Empire'". The Associated Press Interview, www.chicagotribune.com. September 22, 2015.

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• I love my nation, I cannot see you degraded, weakened any more than you are now. Therefore I am bound for your sake and for truth's to cry, "Hold!" and to raise my voice against this degradation of my race. Give up these weakening mysticism and be strong.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Strong, Giving Up

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1143, Manonmani Publishers

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• For the next fifty years this alone shall be our keynote - this, our great Mother India. Let all other vain gods disappear for the time from our minds. This is the only god that is awake, our own race - "everywhere his hands, everywhere his feet, everywhere his ears, he covers everything." All other gods are sleeping. What vain gods shall we go after and yet cannot worship the god that we see all round us, the Virât? When we have worshiped this, we shall be able to worship all other gods.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Mother, Sleep

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.263, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• The humble soul is blessed. The Lord loves her. The Mother of God is higher than all in humility, and therefore all races bless her on earth, while the heavenly powers serve her. And the Lord has given us this blessed Mother of His as a defender and helper.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Mother

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• "I love them that love me, and glorify them that glorify me." (Proverbs 8:17, I Kings 2:30,) says the Lord of His saints. The lord gave the Holy Spirit to the saints, and they love us in the Holy Spirit. The saints hear our prayers and have the power from God to help us. The entire Christian race knows this.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Of all the afflictions that burden the human race, there is not one, whether spiritual or bodily, that cannot be healed by the Holy Scriptures.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Inspirational, Christian, Spiritual

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• Many times man lives and dies between his two eternities: that of race and that of Soul... A brief parting from those dear is the worst man has to fear... Though grave diggers' toil is long... They but thrust their buried men back in the human mind again.

  William Butler Yeats

  Karma, Men, Two

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Children, Fall, Justice

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• Once there was a race, quite unlike the human race - quite. I have no way of describing to you what they looked like or how they lived, but they had one characteristic you can understand: they were creative. The creating and enjoying of works of art was their occupation and their reason for being.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Art, Creating, Creative

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• Every time my cameras go out on a movie, we learn something new and then we take what we learn and we put it into the next generation of the cameras so we're constantly improving. It's kind of like building a race car, racing it, then running back to the shop and working on the engine some more and tinkering with it to improve it.

  James Cameron

  Running, Car, Racing

  "James Cameron Interview, Sanctum". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. February 2011.

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• I guess racism is sort of like a form of discrimination but it's just that you classify people in different colours and different races. I think everyone is born with an inherent, the inherence to discriminate.

  Pearl Tan

  Thinking, Racism, People

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• One of my favorite things about soccer is how the art and the passion of the game somehow unites people and nations and classes and races. That's something that comes out of the game and how it's displayed and why people enjoy watching it and supporting it.

  Tobin Heath

  Soccer, Art, Passion

  Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• The current transgender movement is composed of a great number of factions, divided by those old favorites of class, race, age, language, region, and nationality.

  Kate Bornstein

  Class, Numbers, Age

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• White fragility! White people are so sensitive about race and racial conversations. I feel like I'm always walking on eggshells when I'm around white people.

  Margaret Cho

  White, People, Fragility

  "'I Want to Talk About How We Can Use Our Anger to Heal': Badass Comic Margaret Cho Dishes". Interview with Paula Young Lee, www.alternet.org. September 30, 2015.

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