Racing Quotes - Page 10

• I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.

  Lillie Langtry

  Acting, Lapses, Found

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• And I guess the thing that I really sort of rely on in me is that I love racing and I love competing and so I know that you know when the time comes and the pressure's on and I have to swim well, I'm sort of able to pull it out and sort of get the best out of myself.

  Stephanie Rice

  Swim, Able, Pressure

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• Tears streamed down my face as I crossed the finish line. I was a new person, a runner.

  Thomas King

  Running, Tears, Lines

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• One skill that separates good from almost-good runners is an ability to concentrate for an entire race, whether it is a mile or a marathon.

  Kara Goucher

  Race, Skills, Marathon

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• Air racing may not be better than your wedding night, but it's better than the second night.

  Mickey Rupp

  Night, Air, May

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• You never see a pretty, unattached girl on a racecourse. But you often see positive gangs of rather unpretty ones. They are the owners or the owners' wives and they wear mink in all weathers and far too much make-up. For some odd reason, I can never work out why they always seem to be married to haulage contractors in the North, builders in the South and farmers in the West.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Girl, Weather, Work Out

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• What a pity people don't take as much trouble with their own breeding as intelligent racehorse owners do. But then I suppose it is bordering on fascism to think like that.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Intelligent, Thinking, People

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• A horse doesn't know whether the rider on his back wears a dress or pants away from the track.

  Diane Crump

  Horse, Track, Dresses

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• Calling home a close finish - And the judge has called for a photo, appropriately for the Bonusprint Sirenia Stakes.

  Graham Goode

  Horse, Home, Judging

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• I have stood in a bar in Lambourn and been offered, in the space of five minutes, a poached salmon, a leg of a horse, a free trip to Chantilly, marriage, a large unsolicited loan, ten tips for a ten-horse race, two second-hand cars, a fight, and the copyright to a dying jockey's life story.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Horse, Fighting, Race

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• CART is one of the safest racing series in the world.

  Michael Andretti

  World, Carts, Series

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• If you want to understand the effect of weight on a horse, try running for a bus with nothing in your hands. Then try doing it with your hands full of shopping. Then think about doing that for four and a half miles.

  Jenny Pitman

  Running, Horse, Thinking

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• After winning the Derby aged just 18-Why all the fuss? After all, the Derby is just another race.

  Lester Piggott

  Horse, Winning, Race

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• The lower classes are such fools. They waste their money on the pools. I bet, of course, but that's misleading. One must encourage bloodstock breeding.

  Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae

  Horse, Class, Waste

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• Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Horse, Book, Thinking

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• On a horse that consistently hung left-The best thing you can do is put a bit of lead in his right ear, to act as a counterbalance ... with a shotgun.

  Lester Piggott

  Horse, Ears, Shotguns

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• There's enough Ferraris here to eat a plate of spaghetti.

  Jackie Stewart

  Car, Ferrari, Enough

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• I do not speak the English so good, but then I speak the driving very well.

  Emerson Fittipaldi

  Driving, Speak, Wells

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• I had to go off the circuit twice to avoid him. I don't know what Rene Arnoux is doing in Formula One racing. He should be on the beach.

  Thierry Boutsen

  Beach, Should, Formulas

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• Keke Rosberg is as calculating as a slot machine.

  Louis Stanley

  Machines, Calculating, Slot Machines

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• Speaking from memory, I don't know how many points Nelson Piquet has.

  Murray Walker

  Memories, Having Fun, Know How

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• Thackwell really can metaphorically coast home now

  Murray Walker

  Home, Coast, Motor

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• There's Pam watching anxiously. She doesn't look anxious though.

  Stephen Hadley

  Looks, Funny Racing, Anxious

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• And all Niki really has to do now is coast

  Murray Walker

  Coast, Motor

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• You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again.

  Roger Waters

  Life, Running, Time

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