Racing Quotes - Page 30

• Triathlon has quite a short season. It only runs from May to September so there's a lot of time when you're not racing. So I try to set myself the target of doing a certain amount of training every week and things like that.

  Alistair Brownlee

  Running, Training, Trying

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• My goal, for almost my entire career, has been to promote ski racing not just in America, but across the world. I think it's an amazing sport. I am happy to be an ambassador for the next Olympics and I will do my best to honour the Olympics spirit and to hopefully encourage kids to participate in sports, especially in Asia and Korea and I am looking forward to an amazing Olympics.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Sports, Kids, Thinking

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• What do you want to do with the [Communist] Party? A racing stable? What good is it to sharpen a knife every day if you never useit for slicing? A party is never more than a means. There is only one objective: power.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Party, Mean, Power

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• No wonder women have achieved a more equal footing with men in areas they never fought for -- ulcers, hypertension, and heart attacks. We're racing around trying to be all things to all people, burdened by a brutal mix of ambition, anxiety, and guilt.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Heart, Ambition, Men

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!”, Pocket

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• Cruelty is the luxury of those who have nothing to do, like drugs or racing stables.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Luxury, Drug, Cruelty

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• Training was a rite of purification; from it came speed, strength. Racing was a rite of death; from it came knowledge. Such rites demand, if they are to be meaningful at all, a certain amount of time spent precisely on the Red Line, where you can lean over the manicured putting green at the edge of the precipice and see exactly nothing.

  John L. Parker Jr.

  Meaningful, Training, Demand

  "Once a Runner: A Novel". Book by John L. Parker, Jr., www.huffingtonpost.com. 2009.

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• If you'd bothered to ask me, Clark, if you'd bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours, I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn't bother to ask me. You decided what you thought you'd like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.

  Jojo Moyes

  Horse, Fun, Hate

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• I'm racing against me. As long as I come across the finish, I'll be okay.

  Ruben Studdard

  Long, Okay

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• Going to car racing school was phenomenal.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  School, Car, Phenomenal

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• There are so many people who have died of cycling, and that didn't happen when I was racing.

  Greg LeMond

  Cycling, People, Happens

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• How smartly September comes in, like a racing gig, all style, no confusion.

  Eleanor Clark

  Confusion, Style, Gigs

  Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins

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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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• 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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• I don't play racing games, unless it's 'Mario Kart.

  Scott Porter

  Mario Kart, Games, Play

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

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• The older I get, the faster I was.

  Charles Barkley

  Funny, Bikers, April

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• Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.

  Kimi Raikkonen

  Ambition, Champion, World

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• Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Flower, Bees, Lovers

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• Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years.

  Bruce Greenwood

  Couple, Fun, Years

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• I suddenly realized I was racing around so much, I could never catch up with my life

  Pico Iyer

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• The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.

  Murray Walker

  Unique, Motor Racing, Nascar Racing

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• It's very, very special for me. This is where I've grown up, it's my home, and winning the Monaco Grand Prix is the highlight of any racing driver's career and for me a childhood dream. It being my home makes it all the more special, unbelievable.

  Nico

  Dream, Home, Winning

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• Sailboat racing becomes a game of chance only when you are not prepared

  Buddy Melges

  Games, Chance, Sailboat

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• It's not really about the competition. Your biggest challenge in a race is yourself. You're often racing against time. You're frequently running everything through your mind. You're always competing against preconceived ideas. It's not really the person next to you that you worry about.

  Summer Sanders

  Running, Race, Ideas

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• The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts.

  Ferdinand Porsche

  Fall, Perfect, Car

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• I saw Lotus F1 racing as the best choice for me to progress my career, after considering several other options that were available to me.

  Heikki Kovalainen

  Careers, Choices, Progress

  "Q&A: Heikki Kovalainen, Lotus F1". Interview with Matt Salisbury, www.crash.net. December 14, 2009.

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