This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex. — Dan Rather
The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other. — Christopher McDougall
During a race where everyone holds their own truth, the finish line is a surprise. — Akiane Kramarik
It (racing) is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going. — Janet Guthrie
Every race is a war. Every race is a fight. If you don't go into every event with that belief, you will never achieve your goals. — Fabian Cancellara
Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished. — Jack Lovelock
There is something about the ritual of the race - putting on the number, lining up, being timed - that brings out the best in us. — Grete Waitz
The title race is between two horses and a little horse that needs milk and needs to learn how to jump. — Jose Mourinho
Today was not about times, it was about getting in there, enjoying the race, and enjoying the atmosphere — Paula Radcliffe
In the race for quality, there is no finish line — David T. Kearns
You don't race cars, you race the rule book — Smokey Yunick
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet. — Damon Runyon
The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose. — Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk. — Bill Rodgers
Slow but steady wins the race. — Aesop
When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important. — Bill Shoemaker
When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important. — Willie Shoemaker
The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race. — Bob Marley
Life isn't a race. It's a relay. — Dick Gregory
The thoroughbred wanderer — Sir Richard Francis Burton
And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within. — Eric Liddell
Top 10 Great Race Quotes
A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of the race. — Sarojini Naidu
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. — Kofi Annan
He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front. — Benjamin E. Mays
I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor a race of women better adapted to make a great country. — Emily Murphy
How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, religion or all four. — Gloria Steinem
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. — H. G. Wells
The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true. — Catharine Beecher
There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race. — Emil Zatopek
Just put one foot in front of the other. — Austin Peck
A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such. — John Holmes
Great Race Image Quotes
Silence is a source of great strength.
Race Day Quotes
Everything you need is already inside. — Bill Bowerman
In racing there are always things you can learn, every single day. There is always space for improvement, and I think that applies to everything in life. — Lewis Hamilton
Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. — George S. Patton
Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.
What we are working for is an educational program that has become a resource and rallying point for scores of brave southerners who are leading the fight for justice and better race relations in these crucial days — Septima Poinsette Clark
The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race. — Susan B. Anthony
Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice. — Alexander Pope
Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.
But so far, you know who's been violating the nuclear nonproliferation pact day and night? Those who signed it. Iran, Iraq, Libya and Iran violates it while calling for Israel's destruction and racing to develop atomic weapons to that end. — Benjamin Netanyahu
Nuremberg taught me that creating a world of tolerance and compassion would be a long and arduous task. And I also learned that if we did not devote ourselves to developing effective world law, the same cruel mentality that made the Holocaust possible might one day destroy the entire human race. — Benjamin B. Ferencz
Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race. — Romain Rolland
Winning The Race Quotes
The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart. — Bill Bowerman
I have just accepted certain things and it makes it easier. I accept I will get injured. I accept I cannot win every race. I work hard to decrease the chances of those things happening but I accept they will happen. A lot of people don't accept it. They get injured, they go crazy. — Usain Bolt
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. — Lily Tomlin
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. — Lily Tomlin
You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood. — Ayrton Senna
Life is not about winning the race. Life is about finishing the race, and how many people we can all help finish this race. How we can start being kinder to each other — Marc Mero
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog. — Damon Hill
I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same. — Valentino Rossi
I always remind myself if I'm having a down day because of a bad race it's not just me. That feeling I'm having is shared by my family, the team and my fans. When we win they feel the joy as well. That's why I say we win and lose together, and I definitely couldn't do it without them. — Lewis Hamilton
In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond. — Haile Selassie
Is not the festive season when families and friends exchange gifts in memory of The Gift laid on the altar of the world for the redemption of the human race, the most appropriate time to consecrate a portion from abounding riches and scant poverty to send forth the good tidings of great joy into all the earth? — Lottie Moon
As a race, the African is inferior to the white man. Subordination to the white man is his normal condition. He is not his equal by nature and cannot be made so by human laws or human institutions. Our system, therefore, so far as regards this inferior race, rests upon this great immutable law of nature. — Alexander H. Stephens
You wouldn't think such a place as San Francisco could exist. The wonderful sunlight there, the hills, the great bridges, the Pacific at your shoes. Beautiful Chinatown. Every race in the world. The sardine fleets sailing out. The little cable-cars whizzing down The City hills. And all the people are open and friendly. — Dylan Thomas
Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the presence of fear, it would not do. — Albert Einstein
Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones. — Oliver Goldsmith
There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse. — Robert Smith Surtees
My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus. — Carl Lewis
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
No negative thoughts cross my mind on race day. When I look into their eyes, I know I'm going to beat them. — Danny Harris
[Scientific testing] can't determine how the mind will tolerate pain in a race. Sometimes, I say, 'Today I can die.' — Gelindo Bordin
I want to fall in love with beautiful women of all races. Rescue somebody every now and then, improve my painting, and improve my sentence structure. If I can make a living doing that stuff, that's great, and I will keep doing it, and they can do whatever they want with my image. I couldn't care less. — William T. Vollmann
The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit — George A. Sheehan
India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only. — Mark Twain
Community is and must be inclusive. The great enemy of community is exclusivity. Groups that exclude others because they are poor or doubters or divorced or sinners or of some different race or nationality are not communities; they are cliques--actually defensive bastions against community. — M. Scott Peck
There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter? — Wole Soyinka
The eye cannot see it; the mind cannot grasp it. The deathless Self (the Supreme Soul or God) has neither caste nor race, Neither eyes, nor ears, nor hands, nor feet, Sages, this Self is infinite, present in the great and in the small, Everlasting and changeless, the source of life. — Eknath Easwaran
Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this. — Sigmund Freud
I am focused on racing. I enjoy it. It's a great feeling to be back fighting for the title. — Valentino Rossi
My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents. — Edward Brooke
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..." — Carl Sagan
All of great leaders evidence four basic qualities that are central to their ability to lead: adaptive capacity, the ability to engage others through shared meaning, a distinctive voice, and unshakeable integrity. These four qualities mark all exemplary leaders, whatever their age, gender, ethnicity, or race. — Warren G. Bennis
The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us what we can be if we believe in ourselves and our abilities. — Gene Roddenberry
The Great Spirit Chief who rules above all will smile upon this land... and this time the Indian race is waiting and praying. — Chief Joseph
Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative. — Steve Prefontaine
In today’s interconnected and globalized world, it is now commonplace for people of dissimilar world views, faiths and races to live side by side. It is a matter of great urgency, therefore, that we find ways to cooperate with one another in a spirit of mutual acceptance and respect. — Dalai Lama
If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it. — Yogi Berra
I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it - if my work has anything it's that I'm taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together. If people don't like that, then tough titty, don't go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal; they don't do homages. — Quentin Tarantino
Juan Fangio was the great man of racing, whilst Stirling Moss was the epitome of a racing driver. — Jackie Stewart
How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races? All my life people have been telling me, 'You're too small Pre', 'You're not fast enough Pre', 'Give up your foolish dream Steve'. But they forgot something, I HAVE TO WIN. — Steve Prefontaine
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are. — Gore Vidal
In 1859 the human race discovered a huge treasure chest in its basement. This was oil and gas, a fantastically cheap and easily available source of energy. We did, or at least some of us did, what anybody does who discovers a treasure in the basement - live it up, and we have been spending this treasure with great enjoyment — Kenneth E. Boulding
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian. — Emma Goldman
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