Race Quotes - Page 32

• Wanting to win races is detrimental to courage. You tend to run too conservatively because you want to wait and sprint. If you are there to force the pace, to CREATE greatness rather than to have greatness, Courageous moves are a part of your race.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, Moving, Winning

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• Speedwork is terribly overrated! I remember talking to runners after distance races and someone is sure to say they were able to run fast off base work with no speed work at all. The truth is speedwork doesn't work. Lots of miles, and then fast miles gets you there much quicker than speed work.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, Distance, Talking

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• Ideally I would start by racing my athletes once every two weeks. But, such a program has to be flexible because some runners improve better with weekly races or even bi-weekly races. A coach has to adjust to what is best for the runner.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Athlete, Two, Racing

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• I always enjoyed the training more than I did the racing. There was a high level of anxiety in racing that I did not enjoy. Training runs set me FREE. I could imagine the race in my mind and race as if it were the actual race.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, Anxiety, Racing

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• I think it's important for us to recognize that although historically black communities have been very progressive with respect to issues of race and with respect to struggles for racial equality, that does not necessarily translate into progressive positions on gender issues, progressive positions on issues of sexuality and in the latter 1990s we have to recognize the intersectionality, the interconnectedness of all of these institutions and attitudes.

  Angela Davis

  Attitude, Struggle, Thinking

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• We all exist in relation to the world, our partners, the human race.

  Sarah Ruhl

  World, Partners, Relation

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I don't think I really knew how fit I was when I was a kid. I rode with my dad quite long distances and I've been racing since the age of nine, so we did a lot of sport growing up. My earliest memories of my dad are watching him race, so it was inevitable when we were old enough that my brother and I would get on bikes.

  Victoria Pendleton

  Sports, Brother, Growing Up

  Hertfordshire Life Interview, www.hertfordshirelife.co.uk. January 2015.

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• I can spend the hour before the race cracking up with all my friends and joking around, but as soon as I get around that race car, I completely change. The focus changes. The competitive juices get flowing.

  Denny Hamlin

  Car, Focus, Joking Around

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• Why can't we have racism that's ignorant but nice? You could have stereotypes that are positive about race. You could say, "Those Chinese people, they can fly!" "You know about the Puerto Ricans? They're made of candy!"

  Louis C. K.

  Funny, Nice, Racism

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• The reason why the race of man moves slowly is because it must move all together.

  Thomas Reed

  Moving, Men, Together

  Thomas Brackett Reed, Mrs. Susan Prentice Merrill Reed (1911). “Orations and addresses”

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• The great ideas of the West - rationalism, self-criticism, the disinterested search for truth, the separation of church and state, the rule of law, equality before the law, freedom of conscience, thought, and expression, human rights, and liberal democracy- quite an achievement, surely, for any civilization- - remain the best, and perhaps the only, means for all people, no matter of what race or creed, to reach their full potential and live in freedom.

  Ibn Warraq

  Mean, Self, Expression

  Ibn Warraq (2010). “Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays”

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• I believe space exploration is an absolute necessity for the survival of human race.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Believe, Space, Survival

  Source: scienceblog.com

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• I always thought, from day one, that winning races was just doing your job.

  Ron Dennis

  Jobs, Winning, Winning The Race

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

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• We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial.

  Ted Turner

  Inspiring, People, Perception

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• 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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• The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?

  John Adams

  Kings, Faith Religion, Law

  John Adams, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson (1971). “The Adams-Jefferson letters: the complete correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams”, Touchstone

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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