There was no race - but to the extent that there was an arms competition, it was almost entirely on the Soviet side, first to catch up and then to surpass the Americans.
Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.
From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.
The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.
Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.
Pressure is always a part of a racing driver's life, but my father helped me a lot on my way to becoming a F1 driver.
In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.
The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.
You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.
Touring is really about being on edge the whole time - you're like a racing horse: you've just got to be on. You've got to pull it together.
I've been around racing a fairly long time, but when it comes to the important issues, I'm happy to let others make the big decisions.
If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of gr...
It's important not to limit the amount of their own money that candidates can spend, but to give other people access to enough money to run competitive races.
Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.
Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.
The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
