New nemeses keep racing fresh, but I also find challenge in going longer, with only the distance as foe. I run my first 50-mile race, journey across the Grand Canyon and back, circumnavigate Mount St. Helens. – Don Kardong
Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth. – Freeman Dyson
When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible. – Dale Earnhardt
When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you’re all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that’s what counts. – Natalie du Toit
I couldn’t beat Michael Phelps. A couple of years ago, I was racing against him and it just kinda dawned on me during the race that there was no chance I was gonna beat this guy. And so I said, if you can’t beat him, find a race that he won’t swim. – Mark Warkentin
I hate to take compromises with a racing car. The more standard a car is, the more compromises you have to take. – Michael Schumacher
The only sport I’m not interested in is horse racing. That’s because I don’t know the horses personally. – Nat King Cole
I think racing and riding are two different elements of cycling. You either want to or not depending on what you want to get out of it. – Mark-Paul Gosselaar
Beside the brand-ambassador elements of the modern racing driver, the evolution of the athlete has mandated that as drivers, we are very committed to fitness. – Charlie Kimball
Just about any story we think about doing, whether we’ve read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth – by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene. – Connie Chung
I’ve tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car. – Nigel Mansell
Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing. – Dane Bird-Smith
The excitement of automobile racing did not compare with what I knew must come with aeroplane fighting in France. – Eddie Rickenbacker
No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you’re going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it. – David R. Ellis
You know, when my dad was a racing fan in Australia he would follow Jack Brabham and sometimes only hear if he won two days after a race – when the result finally appeared in his newspaper. These days I can tweet something and it’s all over the world in seconds. – Mark Webber
Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down. – Dave Barry
I think there’s a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe. – Danica Patrick
I’ve had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event. – Paula Radcliffe
Sitting beside the pool is fine for two weeks, but after that I think it’d be quite hard to live with – so I need to keep racing. – Mark Webber