Racing Quotes - Page 21

• If you are a straightforward racing driver you should always see your limits. You have to be objective and not come up with any bullshit.

  Niki Lauda

  Bullshit, Limits, Should

  Source: www.grandprix.com

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• I am still here because I like to prove myself. I still like to ride the bike on track and enjoy the races. I still have good reasons to be in racing after so many years.

  Valentino Rossi

  Years, Race, Track

  Source: supermotoo.blogspot.com

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• We are all so immersed in our own technology bubbles that we're ignoring so many important things. We're all online arguing over nuance and nonsense, and everybody's so incensed and upset about things that ultimately mean nothing while we are destroying our environment. While we're racing towards Armageddon, we're all online arguing about what Beyonce said at some award.

  Rick Remender

  Mean, Technology, Awards

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Motivation is the key. More than training, more than experience or age, motivation counts. You have to ask yourself: 'Why am I racing?' I race because I like it, because I'm really enjoying it. I like to set up my bike and ride it on track. After 20 years in the GPs I'm still highly motivated. Everything else is a consequence.

  Valentino Rossi

  Motivation, Years, Gps

  Source: www.cycleworld.com

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• I feel like with Indy cars, you can just show up - if you are equipped to build and make a nice car, then you could be competitive. But in NASCAR I don't see that even being possible for someone to just show up with a car. There's too much evolution of the tricks and bells and whistles and all the things it takes to be fast in stock-car racing that you wouldn't know.

  Danica Patrick

  Nice, Stock Car Racing, Bells

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• When you see these characters like Captain America or Thor, laughing at their own situation or about how strange they are, then you are able to accept more readily that it's fine to wear a cape. You can also accept that it's fine to be enormous and green, or to shoot arrows at aliens racing through the sky. It all makes sense if you've been able to laugh at it and with it.

  Joss Whedon

  Character, Laughing, Strange

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

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• You are always racing against the other swimmers, but I always try to just focus on what I'm doing and how I want to swim my races.

  Katie Ledecky

  Focus, Swim, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• When I believe in something, I fight like hell for it.

  Steve McQueen

  Believe, Fighting, Belief

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

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• Ill never be as good an actor as I want to be....but I'll be good.

  Steve McQueen

  Actors, Want, Ill

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• I've got a feeling I'm leaving stardom behind, you know. I'm gradually becoming more of a filmmaker, acquiring a different kind of dignity from that which you achieve in acting. After all, I'm no matinee idol, and I'm getting older. I don't think I can be doing my kind of thing in the seventies; I want to be on more of the creative side of business.

  Steve McQueen

  Thinking, Idols, Creative

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• Through F1, I bought my own boat. I learned to fly my own plane and helicopter. And my job with my company is a reflection of everything motor racing taught me.

  Nelson Piquet

  Jobs, Reflection, Motor Racing

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• I really don't like to act. At the beginning, back in '51, I had to force myself to stick with it. I was real uncomfortable, real uncomfortable.

  Steve McQueen

  Real, Sticks, Force

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• Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Bird, Pigeons, Kind

  "Mike Tyson’s Show Is a Bad Bet" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2011.

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• Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats cheese... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Running, Morning, Food

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• In England the more horses a nobleman has, the more popular he is. So long as the English are devoted to racing, Socialism has no chance with you.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Horse, Long, Noblemen

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• The national sport of England is obstacle-racing. People fill their rooms with useless and cumbersome furniture, and spend the rest of their lives in trying to dodge it.

  Herbert Beerbohm Tree

  Sports, Home, People

  Quoted in Hesketh Pearson Beerbohm (1956).

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• I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our hands and see who could get the farthest. I was always playing football with them, basketball or racing in the street.

  Florence Griffith Joyner

  Basketball, Football, Brother

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• The number of people that can reason well is much smaller than those that can reason badly. If reasoning were like hauling rocks, then several reasoners might be better than one. But reasoning isn't like hauling rocks, it's like, it's like racing, where a single, galloping Barbary steed easily outruns a hundred wagon-pulling horses.

  Galileo Galilei

  Horse, Rocks, Numbers

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• With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits.

  Julie Krone

  Risk, Laurels, Counterfeit

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• I wear a continuous glucose monitor when I'm racing.

  Charlie Kimball

  Glucose

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• Le Mans' is the only racing movie that is totally realistic.

  Jenson Button

  Realistic

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• I am grateful to Penske Racing for six very productive years. Together we won a lot of races - 16 in all. I'm proud that we won on a variety of tracks.

  Kurt Busch

  Grateful, Race, Years

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• This 51 Phoenix Racing team, I love them to death. They've got my back, I've got theirs.

  Kurt Busch

  Team, Phoenix

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• Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep.

  Dale Archer

  Heart, Sleep, Mind

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