64 Relay Races Quotes
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Famous Relay Races Quotes
Life isn't a race. It's a relay. — Dick Gregory
I love swimming because racing. — Ryan Lochte
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 decathlon is nine Mickey Mouse events and the 1500 metres. — Steve Ovett
The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other. — Christopher McDougall
Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all. — Terry Pratchett
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. — Walter Elliot
During a race where everyone holds their own truth, the finish line is a surprise. — Akiane Kramarik
There are no races. Only lotteries. — Jacques Anquetil
Track and field, because it was something I could do by myself, one-on-one, me against everybody else. — Jim Thorpe
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. — Steve Prefontaine
There is a special mystique about the marathon, for example, because of its length-but that's just the bit you do at the end of an Ironman — Chrissie Wellington
It is a human demolition derby! — Jim Ross
Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance. — Mao Zedong
Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished. — Jack Lovelock
Running Race Quotes
God gave you your own race to run, stop comparing yourself to other people. They have their race and you have yours. Run hard and don't quit. — LeCrae
The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart. — Bill Bowerman
Everything you need is already inside. — Bill Bowerman
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
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
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race. — Gough Whitlam
If you commit yourself to the love of Christ, then that is how you run a straight race. — Eric Liddell
My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run. — Dennis Conner
The whole world is run on bluff. No race, no nation, no man has any divine right to take advantage of others. Why allow the other fellow to bluff you? — Marcus Garvey
But if we can learn to fall more in love with the Lord and trust Him in the middle of every storm, we build our endurance to keep running the race. — Kari Jobe
Relay Quotes
Christian life isn’t a one-person race. It’s a relay. You are not alone; you’re part of a team assembled by our unstoppable God to achieve his eternal purposes. — Christine Caine
An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before? — Francis Ford Coppola
Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time. — Andrei Tarkovsky
Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
History is a relay of revolutions. — Saul Alinsky
History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus. — Mehmet Murat Ildan
God intended motherhood to be a relay race. Each generation would pass the baton on to the next. — Mary Pride
Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing. — Christopher Nolan
We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it. — Elie Wiesel
All my movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds. — David Lynch
People Writing About Relay Races
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Dick Gregory |
106 | 5382 |
 Ryan Lochte |
58 | 358 |
 Grete Waitz |
36 | 256 |
 Christopher McDougall |
57 | 562 |
 Terry Pratchett |
1387 | 5273 |
 Akiane Kramarik |
55 | 536 |
More Relay Races Quotes
Nothing is born of nothing, least of all knowledge, modernity, or enlightened thought; progress is made in tiny surges, in successive laps, like an endless relay race. But there are links without which nothing would be passed on, and for that reason, they deserve the gratitude of all who benefited from them. — Amin Maalouf
The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film. — Krzysztof Kieslowski
I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man. — Romain Gary
In our work, the question is, how much you absorb from others. So for me, creativity, is really like a relay race. As children we are handed a baton. Rather than passing it onto the next generation as is, first we need to digest it and make it our own. — Hayao Miyazaki
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
I just like going into strange worlds. — David Lynch
Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. — Jim Jarmusch
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. — Stanley Kubrick
I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. — Kathryn Bigelow
Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it's a relay race. — Quyen Nguyen
Either I did away with that fear through writing, or in the course of writing, I discovered it was no longer so intrusive or threating. The bottom line is, it's gone. — Ingmar Bergman
I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience. — Paul Thomas Anderson
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium. — Milan Kundera
I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone. — Gail Carriger
It's like a relay race of being ignored. It is really challenging, but whenever I get asked that stuff, I feel really self-conscious about it. I feel really lucky because we have a lot of help. When I first began to be a dad with Gwen [Stefani], I was amazed at what she went through. — Gavin Rossdale
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor . . . — Milan Kundera
Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it's a relay race. — Nguyen Quyen
When we got in the race, we knew what we had to do and knew what we wanted to do. Having three of four guys from the American record 800 free relay is a pretty solid relay, so we thought we could take a crack at the U.S. Open record tonight. We're all a little tired, but that's fifth-fastest American relay ever, so it's not a bad time. We ended tonight on a great note. — Michael Phelps
I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that. — Carl Lewis
(On upcoming racing plans) Right now I am going to go back into training and then I am going to resurface and do the BAA Mile, The Boston Mile, and then I am going to do the USA Championships Mile out in Des Moines, Iowa. Then it is either going to be between The Penn or Drake Relays and then I will go back into training again and start another kind of session. — Leonel Manzano
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