Racing Quotes - Page 20

• Racing is not football or baseball or basketball where you can do it yourself. If you're good in high school, you just shine. (But in racing) you have to have a family behind you.

  Trevor Bayne

  Basketball, Football, Baseball

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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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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• 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 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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• Racing does to white guys what movies do to black guys.

  Daniel Tosh

  White, Guy, Black

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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'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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• Formula 1 racing had a personal scandal right up at the top of its governing body that was so weird, that was so flagrantly salacious and bizarre, that I think it not only reassured American racing fans that Formula 1, yes, really is kind of weird.

  Rachel Maddow

  Thinking, Body, Scandal

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• I haven't fully moved over to the iPad. At any given time, I have about four DVDs in my pocket. I'm constantly screening 'Top Chef,' 'Housewives,' and all the other shows we have in development, racing to meet a deadline. So I pretty much bring my laptop everywhere.

  Andy Cohen

  Dvds, Ipads, Pockets

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• When it comes to my racing career I'm very driven and very selfish. People who are around me at races will know that I'm a different person here than in my personal life. I completely blank people at races. I need to be focused. I'm rude.

  Jenson Button

  Selfish, Race, Careers

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• I like racing. I love the speed and I'm a very kinetic person in terms of filmmaking. I love the movement of film more than anything else.

  George Lucas

  Movement, Film, Speed

  "Star Wars archive: George Lucas 1999 interview". Interview with Ian Freer, www.empireonline.com. September 1999.

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• Normally, racing drivers come from a long line of previous successful sports people.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Sports, Successful, Long

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• When thought races ahead of Being, a civilization is racing towards destruction.

  Jacob Needleman

  Civilization, Race, Destruction

  Jacob Needleman (2009). “What Is God?”, p.18, Penguin

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• I hadn't a clue who I was racing against. All I knew was how I was going to race.

  Herb Elliott

  Race, Clue

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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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• 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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• 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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• Racing and hunting excite man's heart to madness.

  Laozi

  Heart, Men, Hunting

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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 feel like I'm the most competitive driver in the motorhome lot. No matter what it is - whether we're racing, playing another sport or deciding who can run to that sign and back faster - I feel like I'm the most competitive person alive.

  Denny Hamlin

  Sports, Running, Alive

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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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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