Racing Quotes - Page 23

• Especially with sports cars, when you have got so many cars on the track with various degrees of competitiveness, then something will happen. It's the nature of racing, the law of averages. If you want to be a front-runner then you are going to have to push very hard, and collisions can happen.

  Allan McNish

  Sports, Average, Law

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• My uncertain temper is cooling, as is my sense of racing against time to accomplish the things I want to. I don't have to go anywhere or see anyone I don't want to now, and it is a glorious feeling!

  Judy LaMarsh

  Feelings, Want, Uncertain

  "Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage" by Judy LaMarsh, Ch. 11, (p. 351), 1969.

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• I have spent--or wasted--my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing and bull fighting as the only true sports. The rest, he sniffed, are merely games.

  Brock Yates

  Sports, Writing, Fighting

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• One of the cool things about ski racing is there is never a perfect run so it's hard to be satisfied in that sense, you can always go that extra step, i don't think any of us have the realistic goal of having the perfect run. Ski racing is the most variable sport out there, conditions change run-to-run, we only get one chance at it and the margin for error is tiny.

  Ted Ligety

  Change, Sports, Running

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• So much of writing is discovery. Sometimes I feel like a rat in a maze, trying to discover the way out. My little heart is beating, and I'm racing down a path thinking, this is the route, it will get me there, as I turn this way and then that.

  Will Hobbs

  Writing, Heart, Thinking

  Source: scholar.lib.vt.edu

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• If you're onstage and you're improvising and nothing's happening, people are racing for the door. But the director can go shopping later and pick up pieces and moments and insert them.

  Gary Cole

  Doors, Shopping, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Liberals are like dogs: The liberal holds that he is true to the republic when he is true to himself. (It may not be as cozy an attitude as it sounds.) He greets with enthusiasm the fact of the journey, as a dog greets a man's invitation to take a walk. And he acts in the dog's way too, swinging wide, racing ahead, doubling back, covering many miles of territory that the man never traverses, all in the spirit of inquiry and the zest for truth. He leaves a crazy trail, but he ranges far beyond the genteel old party he walks with and he is usually in a better position to discover a skunk.

  E. B. White

  Dog, Attitude, Crazy

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• It is not that I don't recognize the danger in ski racing, but that I don't fear the consequences.

  Bode Miller

  Danger, Skis, Consequence

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• The only mental games in ski racing is the mental game against yourself. Is the whole goal of life preserving your life as long as you can? No. The goal is to enjoy your life, challenge yourself, to sometimes make stupid decisions-which are sometimes fun and sometimes idiotic and sometimes just a big fat mistake you regret.

  Bode Miller

  Fun, Regret, Mistake

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• Being a girl, my parents could have discouraged me from racing ... but my family has such a passion and so much confidence in me, and that goes a long way.

  Danica Patrick

  Girl, Passion, Long

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• I've been racing a long time, and I realize you go through good streaks and bad streaks.

  Jeff Gordon

  Long, Realizing, Streaks

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• Ever since I've been racing, I've always been the young guy.

  Jeff Gordon

  Guy, Young, Young Guys

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• Any business you're involved with, and racing is no different, is about people. It's all about people.

  Joe Nemechek

  People, Different, Involved

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• All types of racing costs a lot of money no matter what you're doing.

  Joe Nemechek

  Cost, Matter, Type

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• If you are always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you're in.

  Zig Ziglar

  Next, Moments, Happens

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• What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?

  Homer

  Winning, Men, Hands

  Homer (2008). “Odyssey, Homer”, Spark Publishing Group

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• I still love racing and the challenge of it, but at some point, you get to a place where you're perfectly happy moving on and doing other stuff.

  Bode Miller

  Moving, Challenges, Stuff

  "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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• While the high-level climate talks pursue their stately progress towards some ill-defined destination, down in the trenches there is an undercurrent of suppressed panic in the conversations. The tipping points seem to be racing towards us a lot faster than people thought.

  Gwynne Dyer

  People, Progress, Climate

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• Can you giggle while racing for your life and protecting a six-year-old? I can.

  James Patterson

  Years, Six Year Olds, Giggle

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.183, Hachette UK

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• I enjoyed every minute of it, I traveled all over North America, racing everywhere I could, and I had fun with it. I didn't make a whole lot of money, but if I could do it again today, I'd do it, and I think I'd make it.

  Louise Smith

  Fun, Thinking, America

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• I never was a cheerleader. I'm an athlete. I'm probably not coordinated enough to be a cheerleader but that doesn't matter. I've always wanted to compete. And if I compete, I want to win. I was born competitive and that's in my blood. Whatever car I'm in, whatever series I'm running, whatever track I'm racing I want to be a factor. I want people to know that Shawna Robinson was there.

  Shawna Robinson

  Running, Athlete, Winning

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• I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other. I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition. I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.

  Alan Arkin

  Horse, Hard Times, Competition

  "OSCARS Q&A: Alan Arkin". Interview with Pete Hammond, deadline.com. February 9, 2013.

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• I wish they would pass a law where all Democrats and Republicans had to wear NASCAR racing suits, because if you look at the NASCAR drivers, it tells who their sponsors are. And if they do that, we could then become informed voters, because we would know who owns them.

  Jesse Ventura

  Law, Nascar Racing, Wish

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• Just avoid things like racing trains to the crossing, doing cocaine, etc. Develop good mental habits.

  Charlie Munger

  Good Man, Etc, Cocaine

  "Buffett's Wit and Wisdom". Interview with Whitney Tilson, www.fool.com. May 3, 2004.

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• Being on the road 33 weeks of the year, this becomes your community. You have to get to along with everybody. Racing becomes your life. You still have your friends at home, but you're with these people so much. You have to get along.

  Tanner Berryhill

  Home, Years, People

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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