Racing Quotes - Page 8

• The 2006 event logo combines the twin spires of Churchill Downs, one of the great signature elements in sports, with the greatest international day of Thoroughbred racing. We look forward to displaying the logo widely throughout the commonwealth of Kentucky, and to our international outlets.

  Damon Thayer

  Sports, Kentucky, Signatures

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• Racing a marathon is a true and simple way to test the human spirit. Whether it goes perfectly or poorly you will certainly learn something about yourself and be a better person for having tackled the distance.

  Blake Russell

  Running, Distance, Simple

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• ...well this US eight, with all its material occupying every seat just would not go fast. They rowed their hearts out but it never started to sing through the water. And no one ever found out why. The answer to this is slightly mystical because the sum of a crew is greater than its parts. Those eight heavyweights had not time to develop the bond, the sacred trust, that can make a racing eight fly.

  Daniel Topolski

  Heart, Eight, Water

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• Racing shirts should be sold on big, thick rolls like paper towels.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Paper Towels, Rowing, Shirts

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• The slow boat-I know it's the slow boat because I've been watching them for thirty-three weeks-won the first piece by a full length. Then the fast boat won the second piece. And so it went for the next four pieces, back and forth. Conclusion: I hate seat racing.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Hate, Three, Pieces

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• As I stood in the booth chatting to people, it occurred to me that besides good racing, the Crew Classic provided an ideal setting for the brotherhood of rowing. The brotherhood connects real rowing people. Teammates who haven't visited in years came together, and so do former opponents who once battled like mortal enemies. Suddenly they discovered they have much more in common. Long live the brotherhood of rowing.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Real, Years, Long

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• What I loved about bike racing was that it was not a mainstream sport. My heroes were self-made. There were no coaches, no training centers, and only a handful of sponsors. Training rides were not totally devoted to bike talk. I got to know a lot of riders this way, not just as good sprinters or good climbers, but as people who had ideas different from mine, jobs different from mine, and dreams different from mine.

  Steve Tesich

  Sports, Dream, Jobs

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• Racing is licking your opponent's plate clean before starting on your own

  Tim Krabbe

  Opponents, Licking, Clean

  Tim Krabbé, Tim Krabbe, Sam Garrett (2003). “The Rider”, p.19, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Road racing imitates life, the way it would be without the corruptive influence of civilization. When you see an enemy lying on the ground, what’s your first reaction? To help him to his feet. In road racing, you kick him to death

  Tim Krabbe

  Lying, Civilization, Feet

  Tim Krabbé, Tim Krabbe, Sam Garrett (2003). “The Rider”, p.69, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on

  Valentino Rossi

  Track, Different, Kind

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• I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.

  Danica Patrick

  Thinking, Years, Childhood

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• Women are racing all the time to try to have a perfect house and perfect kids and be a perfect cook. Men, somehow, for whatever reason, seem to be better able to pick and choose, to focus on things they like and that are important to them, and let the other things go.

  Debora Spar

  Kids, Men, Perfect

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• Many people thought that riding for a new team and racing on a brand new bike would be a lot to overcome.

  Ricky Carmichael

  Team, People, Overcoming

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• Its always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.

  Buddy Rice

  Track, Special, Different

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• Pain? Yes, of course. Racing without pain is not racing. But the pleasure of being ahead outweighed the pain a million times over. To hell with the pain. What's six minutes of pain compared to the pain they're going to feel for the next six months or six decades. You never forget your wins and losses in this sport. YOU NEVER FORGET.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Success, Sports, Pain

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• Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Bird, Pigeons, Kind

  "Mike Tyson’s Show Is a Bad Bet" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2011.

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• Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats cheese... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Running, Morning, Food

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons. To be a coach is not just to teach these lessons but also to feel them in the core of your marrow. The very act of surpassing personal limits in training and racing will bend the mind and body toward a higher purpose for the rest of my runners' lives. Settling for mediocrity-settling instead of pushing-those who learn to be the best version of themselves know the secret to a full life.

  Martin Dugard

  Life Lesson, Training, Mind

  Martin Dugard (2011). “To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person (and the World a Better Place)”, p.15, Rodale

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• I think there's a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.

  Danica Patrick

  Sports, Team, Thinking

  "Daytona 500: Racing superstar Danica Patrick commits career to America’s NASCAR". Interview with Rachel Ray, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 26, 2012.

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• Boogity, boogity boogity! Let’s go racing boys!

  Darrell Waltrip

  Boys

  Twitter post from Jul 26, 2015

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• A mountian bike race is a constant hard effort for two to three hours. In road racing the efforts often come in surges. You ride easy for awhile then you have to make an extreme, hard effort. They are two different efforts, two different forms of suffering.

  John Tomac

  Cycling, Race, Two

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• If we fail to provide boys with pro-social models of the transition to adulthood, they may construct their own. In some cases, gang initiation rituals, street racing, and random violence may be the result.

  Leonard Sax

  Boys, Random Violence, Transition

  Leonard Sax (2009). “Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men”, p.168, Basic Books

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• I spend all day thinking of shopping. I love the thrill of finding that wonderful, perfect thing, the feeling of your heart racing because it's so right.

  Mindy Grossman

  Heart, Thinking, Shopping

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• Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Car, Achievement, Formula 1

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• I've been around racing a fairly long time, but when it comes to the important issues, I'm happy to let others make the big decisions.

  Mats Sundin

  Sports, Issues, Long

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