“ Stumbling through darkness and racing through light, we have persisted in the creation of a Canadian civilization. ”
- Adrienne Clarkson- Copy
- 1K
“ Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action. ”
- Damon Hill- Copy
- 543
“ However, I am a big believer in lots of 10ks to half marathon racing to get your legs marathon ready-combined with long runs on non-race weekends. ”
- Bill Rodgers- Copy
- 634
“ Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
- 2.6K
“ My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated. ”
- Bill Rodgers- Copy
- 1.6K
“ I know nothing about racing and any money I put on a horse is a sort of insurance policy to prevent it winning. ”
- Frank Richardson- Copy
- 1.1K
“ I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything. ”
- Bill Walton- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Competition between footmen gave way during the second half of the 18th century to men racing against time over long distances. 'Pedestrians' called Centurions. ”
- William Gordon Wallace- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Racing takes everything you've got — intellectually, emotionally, physically — and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too. ”
- Janet Guthrie- Copy
- 3.7K
“ There are only 3 sports, Bullfighting, Motor Racing and Mountain climbing. All the rest are games. ”
- Earnest Hemingway- Copy
- 3.8K
“ A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
- 1.3K
“ I ski to win. When the day comes that I can't get myself into a fighting mood anymore, I won't be able to win and I'll stop racing. ”
- Ingemar Stenmark- Copy
- 3K
“ It 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- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time. ”
- Greg LeMond- Copy
- 855
“ Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. ”
- Matt Groening- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death. ”
- Colette Dowling- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. ”
- John Steinbeck- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The way that I approach my entire racing career is to do it right. ”
- Willy T. Ribbs- Copy
- 3.9K
“ With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits. ”
- Julie Krone- Copy
- 547
“ Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch. ”
- Corrie ten Boom- Copy
- 246
“ When you get into a pack of cars, then you feel the problem worst, handicapping the driver and handicapping our ability to race. When there's a crosswind, the cars suffer badly as well, which makes them even more difficult to control. They are always fun to drive, but motor racing should be about the best drivers racing the best cars, which offers the best challenge, and my feeling now is that we have come to a bit of a cul-de-sac. ”
- Damon Hill- Copy
- 3.6K
“ I have never been better prepared for a season. Last year I was out of the car for five months, and it took me half the season to really get up to speed-but right now I feel I'm on the pace from the very start. If you are a top concert pianist, you need to practise for about four hours a day just to maintain your standards… ”
- Damon Hill- Copy
- 1.5K
“ I raced hot rods at the Santa Ana Drag Strip and clocked my fastest time at 71 m.p.h. I thought I was going to be the world's greatest racing driver, but baby, did I get beaten! Cars were backing up faster than I could go forward! I could beat everybody in Arkansas, but believe me, California was a little different. ”
- Ronnie Hawkins- Copy
- 2.4K
“ I just couldn't finish anything. I wrote a lot of first chapters, but the desire to push it through to completion just wasn't there. Instead, I focused on the other parts of my life. Elaine and I had two children, I was racing a lot, and I was working on becoming a good forensic psychologist. ”
- Richard Helms- Copy
- 432
“ It requires humility to stop moving and shaking long enough to be present to people. To allow someone to pull you in on the tractor beam of their gaze is to submit to that person. Taking long enough to hear the details of the whole truth impinges on our longing to get ahead in a me-first, look-out-for-number-one way of living… ”
- Jan Johnson- Copy
- 668
“ I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others. ”
- Jim Cole- Copy
- 1.7K
“ I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Can I put my feet out the window? Man, you really like Tide. ”
- Mitch Hedberg- Copy
- 520
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