Quotes of: Races Keyword

If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.

George A. Sheehan

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

Will Rogers

I am a sprinter, and I love to go fast. It's very difficult for me to be patient and follow a race strategy or conserve energy.

Allyson Felix

Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation.

James Weldon Johnson

The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.

Edward Thorndike

My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our count...

Faye Wattleton

I came second in a 1,500-metre running race at school. I knew I couldn't have come first, so second was my version of first.

Chet Faker

When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.

Carroll O'Connor

I was quite excited, but I was sure I wouldn't win the race. I am a realist.

Jean Alesi

There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.

Jeb Bush

My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble.

Bill Rodgers

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Booker T. Washington

My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.

Dennis Conner

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

David Hockney

Many athletes are seeking new and novel ways of pushing their limits, and the challenge of running back-to-back races is certainly one way to test the boundaries.

Dean Karnazes

Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better.

Don Kardong

Never mistake movement for action... a rocking horse moves; a race horse charges towards a goal.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day.

Jennifer Granholm

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

Jim Harrison

I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

Jacky Ickx