Racing Quotes - Page 34

• My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute. One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Memories, Waiting, Sugar

  Simone De Beauvoir (2013). “The Woman Destroyed”, p.49, Pantheon

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• Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than others.

  Ayrton Senna

  Motor Racing, Littles, Limits

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• I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Ocean, Mean, Sea

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.218, Pan Macmillan

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• I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.

  Valentino Rossi

  Sports, Car, Stolen

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

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• This is a rule of racing: No race has ever been won in the first corner; many have been lost there.

  Garth Stein

  Race, Firsts, Lost

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• But my passion is racing cars. It's what I like to do in my off time.

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar

  Passion, Car, Race Car

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

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• Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Giving Up, Struggle

  Amby Burfoot (2000). “The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart”, p.31, Rodale

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  Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Sports, Heart

  "LIVESTRONG America" by Jon Kraushar, www.foxnews.com. July 16, 2009.

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• Why should any guy want to be only friends with a girl? It’s like agreeing to be near a chocolate cake and never eat it. It’s like sitting in a racing car but not driving it.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Girl, Cake, Car

  "2 States: The Story of My Marriage". Book by Chetan Bhagat, October 8, 2009.

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• So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest, most powerful societies in world history, like the United States and Canada, are racing full-speed ahead to destroy the environment as quickly as possible.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Race, Trying

  Noam Chomsky (2016). “Who Rules the World?”, p.119, Metropolitan Books

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• There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.

  Jodi Picoult

  Time, Grief, School

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• The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Everyone wins the marathon. We all have the same feeling at the start-nervous, anxious, excited. It is a broader, richer, and even with twenty-seven thousand people-more intimate experience than I found when racing in track. New York is the marathon that all the biggest stars want to win, but has also been the stage for an array of human stories more vast than any other sporting event.

  Grete Waitz

  Running, New York, Stars

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• Enjoy the pregnancy, not racing ahead and relishing the moment. I think people see pregnancy as something to get over with, but every stage of becoming a mother is really special.

  Olivia Wilde

  Mother, Pregnancy, Thinking

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• Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Inspirational, Motivational, I Hate You

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• Why did I take up racing? I was too lazy to work and too chicken to steal

  Kyle Petty

  Lazy, Nascar, Stealing

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• Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it's all about.

  PattiSue Plumer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Mean, Hunting, Rifles

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