Racers Quotes - Page 2

• I never thought of retiring. I'm a racer.

  Connie Kalitta

  Retiring

  Source: blog.caranddriver.com

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• From the circumstances of my position, I was often thrown into the society of horse-racers, card-players, fox-hunters, scientific and professional men, and of dignified men; and many a time have I asked myself, in the enthusiastic moment of the death of a fox, the victory of a favorite horse, the issue of a question eloquently argued at the bar, or in the great council of the nation, well, which of these kinds of reputation should I prefer? That of a horse-jockey, a fox-hunter, an orator, or the honest advocate of my country's rights?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Horse, Player

  Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.389

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• Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.

  Bode Miller

  Legs, Odd, Skis

  "Bode Miller on Life Off the Slopes and His New Deal With Aztech Mountain". Interview with WWD, wwd.com. September 10, 2016.

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• From the time I was six years old, I wanted to be a BMX Racer and be the best.

  Donny Robinson

  Years, Bmx, Six

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• This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if it's a highly unscientific experiment designed to gauge how little audiences will settle for these days. Manic and multicolored, "Speed Racer" is an excess of nothingness.

  Stephanie Zacharek

  Fun, Gauges, Excess

  "Speed Racer" by Stephanie Zacharek, www.salon.com. May 09, 2008.

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• I've been happy with my life. Also very lucky. I lead two lives - businessman and racer - and it feels like the best of both worlds.

  Connie Kalitta

  Two, World, Lucky

  Source: blog.caranddriver.com

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• But I'm a racer, that's what I've always been. I just want someone to put me in a car and leave me there.

  Shawna Robinson

  Car, Want, Leaving Me

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• Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse; So men were developed from monkeys of course, Which nobody can deny.

  Bill Vaughan

  Horse, Men, May

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• Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to.

  Alice Weaver Flaherty

  Dog, Sleep, Writing

  Alice Weaver Flaherty (2015). “The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I feel like I've been blessed with the ability to do what I do and I guess, I ultimately want to be remembered for being an out-and-out racer; just driving at the seat of my pants and doing it the right way and winning for the right reasons. The right values.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Blessed, Winning, Want

  Source: www.manforhimself.com

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• It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mind, Yoke, Foals

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• There are two types of racers- cheaters and losers.

  Smokey Yunick

  Cheater, Two, Loser

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• Cowgirl is a spirit, a special brand of courage. The cowgirl faces life head on, lives by her own lights, and makes no excuses. Cowgirls take stands. They speak up. They defend the things they hold dear. A cowgirl might be a rancher, or a barrel racer, or a bull rider, or an actress. But she's just as likely to be a checker at the local Winn Dixie, a full-time mother, a banker, an attorney, or an astronaut.

  Dale Evans

  Mother, Light, Special

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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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• I ski very aggressively, and the angles that I create with my body are similar to some of the male racers.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Males, Body, Skis

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• I want to do a movie on sports - like a movie on a racer or a marathon runner - as I feel I'll fit that bill perfectly.

  Bipasha Basu

  Sports, Want, Bills

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• I was so grateful to have made 'Into the Wild' before I made 'Speed Racer' because on 'Speed Racer' I was indoors every single day, every single scene, on a green screen. Some of the time, just to pass the time, I would think back to climbing mountains in Alaska. That really helped me.

  Emile Hirsch

  Grateful, Thinking, Alaska

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• I lean on a lot of drivers. I have a dirt racing background so I gravitate towards asking for advice from drivers who also dirt race, people like Clint Bowyer since dirt racers seem to have a similar driving style and like the car set up similarly.

  Austin Dillon

  Race, Car, People

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• One of the things that I wound up loving about being involved with a bike racer was learning how to bike and how that really creates solitary time for you to reflect on things and nobody can get a hold of you.

  Sheryl Crow

  Cycling, Solitary, Involved

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• Emulation, even in brutes, is sensitively "nervous." See the tremor of the thoroughbred racer before he starts. The dray-horse does not tremble, but he does not emulate. It is not his work to run a race. Says Marcus Antoninus, "It is all one to a stone whether it be thrown upward or downward." Yet the emulation of a man of genius is seldom with his contemporaries, that is, inwardly in his mind, although outwardly in his act it would seem so. The competitors with whom his secret ambition seems to vie are the dead.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Running, Horse, Ambition

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• I am not a driver, I am a racer.

  Stirling Moss

  Drivers

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• On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.

  Emile Hirsch

  Self, Imagination, Acting

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• Well, when I was a kid and I watched Speed Racer, I used to always watch it in the morning with my cereal. And when I ate the cereal, I would pour soda into the cereal because we never really had milk for some reason. I don't know.

  Emile Hirsch

  Morning, Kids, Cereal

  "7 Questions with Emile Hirsch". Interview with John Newlin, www.zimbio.com. May 7, 2008.

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• A lot of the stuff in 'Speed Racer' has never been done before, from it having a multi-tone, to it having a retro-cool family movie, to having the photo-realism with the CG-backgrounds and infinite focus the way they worked with these digital cameras, to even the color experimentation.

  Emile Hirsch

  Color, Focus, Tone

  "‘Speed Racer’ Puts Emile Hirsch in the Driver's Seat". The Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• Part of the challenge of Most Wanted is trying to become the most notorious street racer on the pavement.

  Josie Maran

  Challenges, Trying, Pavement

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