Racing Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.

  Henry Miller

  Sports, Suicide, Fashion

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.177, New Directions Publishing

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• The time to be upset is during the race, when you can actually do something about it. Nothing could be done now. A thousand times I'd told them: the key to racing is to come off the water regretting nothing.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Regret, Keys, Race

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• If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens.

  Bert Sugar

  Sports, Horse, Kings

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• I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.

  Barry Sheene

  Suicide, Missions

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• Indy car racing is much more aggressive.

  Emerson Fittipaldi

  Sports, Car, Indy 500

  Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. August 2, 2002.

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• I think computing power is ready to do 3D justice. It was great for shooters and racing games in the past, but I didn't think it was right for strategy games.

  Sid Meier

  Thinking, Past, Games

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• There wouldn't be any way I could have jumped into Cup with the success I had without the truck series. I wish I had more time to spend there. There are so many things the truck teaches you about aerodynamics, the professional ranks of racing, and working with a professional team.

  Kurt Busch

  Team, Aerodynamics, Wish

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• When there's somebody racing side-by-side, when somebody's right next to me and they're pushing and we're both tired, we're both fatigued, I want to be able to beat them mentally.

  Apolo Ohno

  Tired, Want, Able

  "Speed skater Apolo Ohno". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 18, 2010.

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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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• Since I was kid, what's drawn me to racing is the feeling inside of me, the passion I have for the sport, the feeling I have while competing and doing what I do in a car, on a bike, whatever it's been

  Jimmie Johnson

  Sports, Passion, Kids

  "Johnson - NASCAR teleconference". Teleconference, www.motorsport.com. November 23, 2010.

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• I think racing is a sport that either your in or your out. Its either you are with the pack or you are off the pack.

  Robin Farina

  Sports, Thinking, Packs

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• The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.

  Enzo Ferrari

  Gentleman, Eras, Drivers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• I'll go [racing] until my body won't let me any more. Someone said to me: "The day you stop, you won't be able to get back on the same way as when you did as a pro." I want to delay that kiss goodbye as long as possible.

  David Millar

  Goodbye, Kissing, Long

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• For me the best part about the racing is to let all your aggression - whatever you've got inside you - out on the bike and just attack everything at all possible times.

  Magnus Backstedt

  Aggression, Bike

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Daytona is a restrictor-plate race and, unlike Daytona, guys can't get in a line at Phoenix and go to the front. Daytona and Talladega (Ala.) have always just been two different forms of racing. With the draft being so important at those two tracks, it's more of a team deal than an individual deal. What happens at Phoenix and the races after that has to be done on your own. You can't help each other at Phoenix. You just have to go race.

  Tony Stewart

  Team, Race, Phoenix

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• I think the sport of cycling is different then racing. The sport is just about being healthy and giving yourself an outlet so it's a easy sport to do and I think there are more and more women cycling everyday.

  Robin Farina

  Sports, Thinking, Cycling

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• Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Car, Achievement, Formula 1

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• I bought my first horse when I was 15. I always loved racing and I started studying about breeding and I've been doing it now for 30 years, so I have some credibility.

  David Cassidy

  Horse, Years, Firsts

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