Racing Quotes - Page 29

• In any racing engine, the nearer you are to it disintegrating, the better it's performance will be

  Keith Duckworth

  Performances, Engines

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• [Andrea De Cesaris is] the man who has won more Grands Prix than anybody else in the history of Grand Prix racing without actually winning one of them.

  Murray Walker

  Winning, Men, He Man

  "Andrea de Cesaris - Obituary". www.telegraph.co.uk. October 07, 2014.

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• The appeal of the Riverside 500 was based on that overall spectacle of witnessing a mob of brightly colored, bellowing automobiles gamboling over the countryside like a herd of runaway steers. Stock car roadracing is in fact like a mechanical stampede, and we personally think it's maybe the neatest form of motor racing known to man. It's definitely the greatest spectacle in roadracing.

  Brock Yates

  Men, Thinking, Motor Racing

  Brock Yates (2004). “NASCAR Off the Record”, p.102, MotorBooks International

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• There was a day when you could identify a NASCAR Ford, Chevrolet, or Dodge and they actually looked like "stock cars." Now they are pod machines, slick on the outside but still powered by the same Neanderthal carbureted pushrod V-8s that have been under their hoods for half a century. If this is real auto racing, then the WWF ought to be part of the Olympics.

  Brock Yates

  Real, Car, Neanderthals

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• Fish slowly and thoroughly. Haste never paid dividends. Never wory about the fellow ahead of you. If you start racing to get ahaead of him, he'll probably try to beat you, and from then on it will be nothing but a foot-race instead of a contemplative and inspiring recreation.

  Ray Bergman

  Lakes, Race, Sea

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• I started when I was seven years old so I was on 50, 60 cc Suzuki and then I went up to a Yamaha 125 and then my sister was 16 and she was racing a Harley Davidson 750.

  Amy Weber

  Years, Yamaha, Seven

  "Becoming Pony Boi". Interview with Mike Furci, www.bullz-eye.com. December 12, 2008.

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• My parents were pretty open about a lot of things, especially my mom. And any kind of little crazy thing I was into, she was very supportive of. You know, whether it was BMX bike racing or being in the Boy Scouts or surfing or anything else, she always seemed to sort of support it. And I think it's because she was an immigrant and that idea of sort of having her kids be able to have access to their dreams and whatever they wanted to follow was very important to her.

  Terry Gross

  Mom, Dream, Crazy

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I love street races; theres something about racing in the middle of a city.

  Romain Grosjean

  Race, Cities, Middle

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• I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Police, Motorcycle, Driving

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2015). “On My Own: The Years Since The White House”, p.135, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• One day you're racing about the business of life, harried but vital, a part of its machinery. Then gradually but inexorably you are left out, until one day you find the machinery tearing along without you - and nobody even notices.

  Marjorie Holmes

  Age, One Day, Machinery

  Marjorie Holmes (1995). “Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• the law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience.

  Rebecca West

  Art, Law, Art Is

  Rebecca West (2011). “The Meaning of Treason”, p.93, Open Road Media

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• On the whole, and providing one is in good spirits and feeling reasonably bright, it is not hard to converse for a short space of time on subjects about which one knows little, and it is indeed often amusing to see how cunningly one can steer the conversational barque, hoisting and lowering her sails, tacking this way and that to avoid reefs, and finally racing feverishly for home with the outboard engine making a loud and cheerful noise.

  Virginia Graham

  Home, Space, Feelings

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• Racing is a calling, a passion.

  Janet Guthrie

  Passion, Calling

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• It's as if women are in a totally rigged race. A lot of men are driving souped-up, low-slung racing cars and we're running as fast as we can in tennis shoes we managed to salvage from a local garage sale.

  Naomi Weisstein

  Running, Men, Race

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• Footballers are kept in such a bubble that horse racing is a release.

  Gordon Taylor

  Horse, Release, Footballer

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• I can't wait to be racing through the streets of Chicago. As a notoriously fast course, I am out there to run a PR and compete with some of the world's best until the very end.

  Amy Hastings

  Running, Waiting, Chicago

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• That's what I love about running - I feel like we all celebrate each other. Even if you're racing somebody at the finish, it's like you're in it together.

  Summer Sanders

  Running, Together, Like You

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• You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!

  Dan Aykroyd

  Motorcycle, Bikers, Needs

  Twitter post from Jun 21, 2014

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• On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

  Ayrton Senna

  Thinking, Limits, Given

  "Ayrton Senna: Racing Is in My Blood". Documentary, 1992.

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• In what other sport do you get a 15-second break every hour?

  Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

  Sports, Hours, Break

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• Get the hell out of my way!

  Ayn Rand

  Strength, Courage, Philosophy

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2340, Penguin

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• If I weren’t doing what I’m doing today... I’d be traveling around the world on the back of a motorcycle.

  Donna Karan

  Motorcycle, World, Today

  "A Conversation With Fashion Designer and Philanthropist Donna Karan". Interview with Blue Carreon, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2013.

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• Aerodynamics is for those who cannot manufacture good engines.

  Enzo Ferrari

  Motor Racing, Aerodynamics, Motorsports

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• It was very strange, for I knew we were both in mortal danger. Still, in that instant, I felt well. Whole. I could feel my heart racing in my chest, the blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins again. My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came off his skin. It was like there had never been any hole in my chest. I was perfect - not healed, but as if there had been no wound in the first place.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Sweet, Heart, Blood

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• In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.

  Major Taylor

  Friends, Men, White Man

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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