Quotes of: Rat-race Keyword

I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than, obviously, in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by personality, leadership qualities and by state or local issues. They still have some effect, no ...

Ed Rendell

When it comes to my racing career I'm very driven and very selfish. People who are around me at races will know that I'm a different person here than in my personal life. I completely blank people at races. I need to be focused. I'm rude.

Jenson Button

I don't run anybody else's race. When the gun goes off, I must evaluate with my own body and see. Then, as the race develops, I run accordingly. So you can say that I do not have a set tactic for any race.

Catherine Ndereba

There was no way to lock down, or tighten up, or Fail-Safe into Security Theater a race that covers 26.2 miles, a race that travels from town to town, a race that travels past people's houses. There was no way to garrison the Boston Marathon. Now the...

Charlie Pierce

I ran for the Senate six times. And one of the things I know about Senate races off years and on races, and on years, the same as governor's races, is it's all local. It all gets down to what the specific issues in that - in that district or that sta...

Joe Biden

You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and am not design to come third, fourth or fifth, I race to win.

Ayrton Senna

O cowardly amd tyrannous race of monks, persecutors of the bard, and the gleemen, haters of life and joy! O race that does not draw the sword and tell the truth! O race that melts the bones of the people with cowardice and with deceit! ("The Crucifix...

W.B. Yeats

In the race of life, what matters is to complete your race.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.

Dale Earnhardt

You can't be friends with a squirrel! A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I have a psychology degree, but I was a real theater rat.

David Walton

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Elizabeth Bowen

I'm a gym rat; I love my hour-long afternoon sessions with my trainer.

Tim Howard

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

W. C. Fields

My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, he understood, but to be with each other.

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

I am happy that I ran the half-marathon, but to me, just running and saying that I finished a race isn't enough for me. I want to run the race as best as I can. Working out for pants size isn't enough. I need a goal or a race to get back on the tread...

Drew Carey

I have a lot of great racing memories growing up in Europe as a young boy - playing with car parts on my dad's desk, watching the races on Sunday afternoons to try and spot him on TV, even having the chance to go to Formula 1 races where he was worki...

Charlie Kimball

I am a racer. I'm not a race car driver. I am a racer. I race. That's what I do. I don't go on vacations. I don't take my family on vacations because I don't have a family. My family is the racing family.

Tony Stewart

Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endura...

Christopher McDougall

Somewhere, the zebra is dancing.

The Art of Racing in the Rain