Mind Races Quotes

#1. I beat at him uselessly with my fists. I scream. My mind races. I'll pee on him. Puke, bite, scratch. Sure, I'll lose, but if he's going to mark me I am going to mark him, too, if such a thing is possible.

Cynthia Hand

#2. I battle to fall asleep at night. My mind races every other night. I have always been like this, for as long as I can reminder.

Ronnie Apteker

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

David Hockney

#4. What do you have in mind?
It was too dark for her to see his smile, but she could hear it in his voice. Probably too many things for the amount of time that we've got, but you never know. I'm an ambitious man.

Thea Harrison

#5. If you want to be forgiven, you have to extend forgiveness, even to people who aren't smart enough to ask for it.

William J. Clinton

#6. There were no shortcuts, I realized. It took years of racing to build up the mind and body and character until a rider had logged hundreds of races and thousands of miles of road. I wouldn't be able to win a Tour de France until I had enough iron in my legs, and lungs, and brain and Heart.

Lance Armstrong

#7. One percent doubt is zero percent faith.

Oprah Winfrey

#8. As the vampire trailed a fingertip along the girl's collarbone, she appeared to fall into a trance.
It was not mind games on Zypher's part. Females of both races couldn't help themselves around him.

J.R. Ward

#9. How the horse dominated the mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a horse. Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances ... The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action in man!

D.H. Lawrence

#10. But her mind feels feverish as it races through the crowded hallways of the past

Thrity Umrigar

#11. Then going out on the ice usually about 15 minutes before and certain things I would do for the different races, aspects that you run through your mind.

Eric Heiden

#12. Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.

Ray Dalio

#13. The reason most people give up so fast is that they look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have come.

Anonymous

#14. Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle.

Hugh Nibley

#15. I still do intense interval training. I like miles and quarters best. In races I can set my mind, and I believe I could break 2:20 again.

Catherine Ndereba

#16. Actually, I find it embarrassing being a pop star. I prefer it when people just treat me like anybody else, although occasionally there is a side of me, which is indulgent and I expect certain things because of my position. It's one of the perks.

Michael Hutchence

#17. Running through my mind are thoughts of all the races I ran. On my chest are medals from the races I won. In my heart is gratitude to Gerard Hartmann for helping make my dreams come true. I am very honoured to be a part of this wonderful book.

Douglas Wakiihuri

#18. There is nothing so dangerous in its consequences as injustice to individuals- whether it arise from prejudice of color or from any other source; that a wrong done to one man is a wrong to society and to the world.

John Rollin Ridge

#19. I received a phone call from the chief executive of my principal sponsor [Marlboro], who actually told me that it would be in the interests of the sport if I started to lose races. Which, I mean, just blew my mind.

Ron Dennis

#20. I care for the poor. I am the one willing to work with the poor and have a safety net we can all depend on and make people understand that nothing in life is free. You have to get back to society.

Paul LePage

#21. [T]he young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.

Charles Darwin

#22. The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second.

Michael Johnson

#23. There is nothing to lose in life. Be courageous!

Lailah Gifty Akita