Racing Quotes - Page 9

• I hate to take compromises with a racing car. The more standard a car is, the more compromises you have to take.

  Michael Schumacher

  Hate, Car, Compromise

  "Schumacher keeps his foot down". Interview With Maurice Hamilton, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2002.

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• People get excited around me and behave differently than they would normally. I don't feel different from anyone else, except that I drive a racing car round in circles faster than somebody else.

  Michael Schumacher

  Circles, People, Car

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• I didn't have statistics in my mind when I was racing. It was always a consequence - a nice consequence. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't the reason I was racing.

  Michael Schumacher

  Nice, Mind, Statistics

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• In England the more horses a nobleman has, the more popular he is. So long as the English are devoted to racing, Socialism has no chance with you.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Horse, Long, Noblemen

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• I'm strapped in [the barrel] with a five-point drag-racing harness. With 50 feet to go, they tell me on the walkie-talkie to get ready for a head-first. "We love ya, man," was the last thing I heard. Then I could feel myself going over.

  Steve Trotter

  Men, Feet, Lasts

  Source: ca.askmen.com

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• We should not feel so sorely grieved if no man who had not attained the full stature of a Webster, Clay, Van Buren, or Gerrit Smith could claim the right of the elective franchise. But to have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rum-selling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to the dignity of woman to be longer quietly submitted to.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Horse, Silly, Boys

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ellen Carol DuBois (1992). “The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches”, Northeastern Univ Pr

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• I use to think all road racers were nuts. You know racing around a track at that speed.

  Mick Doohan

  Thinking, Nuts, Track

  "Faster". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• Obama wants to build such things as smart electrical grids and high-speed rail lines, which will offer big environmental improvements. Another obvious thing is that large-scale project financing is virtually frozen, so a lot of renewable energy projects are on hold. If the system doesn't get unclogged before the developers run out of cash, they will be cancelled. Money matters, and we are racing against time.

  Denis Hayes

  Running, Smart, Obvious Things

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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• The greatest thing about form and convention is that it saves you from having to reinvent the wheel. Now, whether you mount the wheel to a horse carriage or a Formula One racing car, make it plain or give it spinning rims, those are all craft decisions. But the fact of the wheel remains: it will turn if you set it down. That's what I mean about the beauty of the gifts genre can offer.

  Chris Abani

  Horse, Mean, Giving

  "The Rumpus Interview With Chris Abani". Interview with Peter Orner, therumpus.net. February 10, 2014.

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• Is it any wonder somebody like Donald Trump is racing through the presidential primary process?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Presidential, Wonder, Process

  "America Leads the World in Goodness". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• I love horses. I spent seven years as a racing commissioner on a horse-racing board.

  Bo Derek

  Horse, Years, Boards

  Interview with Hayley Phelan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• I think there are so many activities going on, like mountaineering. You know, you would pay good money not to have to do that, and yet there are people racing out who want to spend their spare time clambering up rocks.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, Rocks, People

  "Early On, Comedian John Cleese Says, He Had Good Timing But Little Else". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. October 16, 2015.

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• I take my camera pretty much everywhere and try to get the most diverse photos possible, since I get to travel to all the greatest cities in the country and see iconic architecture and things like that. I also like racing photos - like motorcycles, cars, stuff like that.

  C. J. Wilson

  Country, Cities, Car

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• There is a relative order to the fossilized species of plants found in the geologic record for which Flood Geology cannot account, unless you can imagine apple and orange trees with Nike sneakers on their roots, racing past the magnolias and primitive mammals, leaving the ginkgoes back there with the dinosaurs when the Flood waters began to rise.

  Frank Zindler

  Nike, Past, Order

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• Your goal is simple: Finish. Experience your first race, don't race it. Your first race should be slightly longer or slightly faster than your normal run. Run your first race. Later you can race. You will be a hero just for finishing, so don't put pressure on yourself by announcing a time goal. Look at it this way: The slower you run the distance, the easier it will be to show off by improving your time the next race!

  Bob Glover

  Running, Distance, Hero

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• Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between the partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death.

  Colette Dowling

  Broken Heart, Dark, Energy

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• I was taking my advance freefall course, doing my level 1 jump. My heart was racing. Like I said, I have a lot of fear with falling, so I panicked. Then I let go of the door of the airplane and kind of panicked the entire way. But after a few jumps I grew more calm, realized what was going on, and I think that was the key. The more calm I got, the more relaxed I was.

  Dean Potter

  Letting Go, Fall, Heart

  Source: cynthialynnchronicles.com

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• We kept on racing, doing something that Luis [Salom] loved. Fortunately or unfortunately, life goes on.

  Valentino Rossi

  Goes On, Life Goes On

  Source: www.cycleworld.com

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• I didn't know that you could race your bike until after college. I didn't know anything about cycling except that I rode my bike from class to class or to my friend's house. But here I am an athlete, I ran, I played soccer, I swam and people are riding their bikes and racing them? I had never seen a bike race.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Soccer, Athlete, College

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• It's funny because when there's something written about me in Velonews or Cyclingnews, the headline isn't "the other" Armstrong; its Armstrong wins another race. With Lance in retirement, everyone I know goes to those sites because they think Lance is racing again.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Retirement, Winning, Thinking

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• Facebook and Twitter have changed how people follow ski racing. In past Olympics, you couldn't stay in touch with the fan base that followed you during the Olympics. They thought they had to wait four years to reconnect.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Past, Years, People

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• Ski racing is not about how much you weigh. If weight was the key, everybody would be sucking down food.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Keys, Would Be, Weight

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• In this country, the most popular form of car racing is the huge multibillion dollar industry that`s called stock car racing. That`s what NASCAR is. That`s what the SC stands for in the middle of NASCAR, Stock cars.

  Rachel Maddow

  Country, Stock Car Racing, Dollars

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• In the rest of the world though, particularly in Europe, the most popular form of racing is not stock cars. It`s not NASCAR. It doesn`t look anything like NASCAR. It`s Formula 1.

  Rachel Maddow

  Europe, Car, World

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• Formula 1 is a huge international phenomenon even if an otherwise car racing obsessed American public has always found Formula 1 to be a little weird.

  Rachel Maddow

  Car, Littles, Obsessed

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