Quotes About Qualifying

#1. The truth is, while the FBI is hiding behind the 5th Amendment, the Unabomer is qualifying for Social Security as a terrorist. Beam me up, Mr. Speaker.

James Traficant

#2. After qualifying for a B.Sc. in pharmacology, I spent a few months in Sheffield University as a research worker in the pharmacology department but then went back to Oxford to the Nuffield Institute for Medical Research in order to study for a D. Phil. with Dr. Geoffrey Dawes.

John Vane

#3. Tyre management has always been part of the qualifying strategy and the race itself. I don't know about others; I just know that I always push as much as I can to obtain the best result possible.

Romain Grosjean

#4. You do a period of go-karting until you're at the age of qualifying for a ride in a 'school-kart,' then you qualify for driving school. And several of the driving schools have a competition series for their own students.

Mario Andretti

#5. I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.

Alton Brown

#6. Abraham Lincoln would maintain that he had never been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#7. The World Championship gold was a surprise and took a lot of pressure off in terms of qualifying for Rio, but I still need more points, and winning in Manchester would be massive for me.

Bianca Walkden

#8. I hope the BWF (Badminton World Federation) will seriously do something about the Olympic qualifying format or risk getting badminton dropped from the Games.

Taufik Hidayat

#9. We are still confident as a team that we will make it through to the final Cup qualifying round.

Cobi Jones

#10. I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

Abraham Lincoln

#11. Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve.

Tom Wolfe

#12. The percentage of people qualifying for federal disability benefits because they are unable to work rose from 0.7 percent of the size of the labor force in 1960 to 5.3% in 2010.

Charles Murray

#13. Riches and honor are what everyone desires, but if they can be gained only by doing evil, they must not be held. Don't worry about not being in office, worry about qualifying yourself for office. Don't worry that no one knows you, but seek to be worthy of being known.

Confucius

#14. Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment ... is like a qualifying examination. If a fiction can't provide that, we may be excused from inquiring into its higher qualities.

C.S. Lewis

#15. Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans.

Hank Johnson

#16. It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It recognises no nationality; it discourages unworthy national feeling and prejudice.

Charles Glover Barkla

#17. My love admits no qualifying dross

William Shakespeare

#18. Qualifying for the second stage would be a successful World Cup for us. I think we can do it.

Robbie Keane

#19. I turned pro and won Rookie of the Year on the South African Tour and then it took me two tries at the qualifying school on the European Tour and to get my card and the rest is history.

Retief Goosen

#20. Upon seeing the third and final table I realized that most of the people listed would most likely be dead, or come out of these qualifying races with severed limbs of as Revaarn liked to say 'Loose a limb no problem, it'll be amputated and replaced with a robotic one.

Charon Lloyd-Roberts

#21. Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you've climbed Mount Everest.

Natalie Du Toit

#22. New Jersey, in 1844, became the last state to add the qualifying male to citizen, and women who had been voting all along could not vote anymore.

Ann Jones

#23. I am going to miss that time when you take that corner better than anybody else could have taken it on that lap or you do that great qualifying lap or you make that great pass or you bring a crippled car home.

Bobby Rahal

#24. If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.

Henry Cabot Lodge

#25. Death sentences are short and very, very manly. Life sentences aren't. They go on and on, all full of syntax and qualifying clauses and confusing references and getting old.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#26. I've qualified second I don't know how many times. Qualifying isn't my strong suit.

Greg Biffle

#27. My first Indy 500 was one of my high points. I ended up qualifying fourth and I finished fourth. I had a win in Japan a few years later, and then qualifying for Daytona was great as well.

Danica Patrick

#28. I just missed out on qualifying for the Sydney Olympics in 2000.

Natalie Du Toit

#29. If Jesus is at once God and human, that means that as believers we cannot refer to Jesus as God without qualifying that:"God in human form.

Amos Smith

#30. I make appearance at local park and recreation agencies when the program starts, when they have the qualifying meets at the local levels. Then I try to go to the regional competitions, and of course I'm there in Hershey, Pa., in August for the North American final.

Rafer Johnson

#31. Maybe Formula One should have an inversion rule in qualifying.

Bob Varsha

#32. I noticed John had brought along a thermos of his coffee, this "favor" already qualifying as an all-nighter. I admit, the horrific burning sensation really did keep you awake.

David Wong

#33. I've been through the process qualifying for the World Cup, which is an amazing, two-year process. It was an honor to represent the U.S. and to represent the city of Los Angeles and California.

Cobi Jones

#34. Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then?

Oscar Pistorius

#35. Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.

Richard Ford

#36. So I graduated from college with a degree in journalism and was ready to find my dream job at a newspaper in addition to one good man who owned his own car and was certain about his sexuality, my two new, revised qualifying criteria for a potential date.

Laurie Notaro

#37. Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It's like a rush, I really enjoy that.

Sebastian Vettel

#38. The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its qualifying matches.

Michel Patini

#39. He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.

William Hazlitt

#40. Repentance, prayer, and pondering over the scriptures are essential parts of our qualifying for the gifts of the Spirit in our priesthood service. Further magnification of our power to serve will come as we respond with faith to go forward in our callings with the Holy Ghost to help us.

Henry B. Eyring

#41. I'm excited to win a pole at Atlanta, one of the tracks you look forward to qualifying at every single year, and really happy to beat Ryan Newman, who is hard to beat here.

Kasey Kahne

#42. I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only then can I go to the Olympics. If this happens I will be the first Palestinian athlete to gain a qualifying time. This will be a big achievement.

Nader Al-Masri

#43. If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with a straight face always adding a qualifying paragraph noting that mathematicians however say that two plus two still equals four.

Susan Jacoby

#44. Swaraj, without any qualifying clause, includes that which is better than the best one can conceive or have today.

Mahatma Gandhi

#45. Greed makes one want to get blessings without qualifying for it

Sunday Adelaja

#46. Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day.

Alex Berenson

#47. The Gold Cup really is about getting the job done and winning it and qualifying us for the Confederations Cup in Russia in 2017. That's why it's really crucial for us to have players on the roster that have tremendous experience.

Jurgen Klinsmann

#48. To represent your country at a home Olympics is something special and I'm over the moon to be selected for Team GB. I was pleased to get the qualifying time in Berlin earlier this year and my sole focus is getting in the right shape for London.

Paula Radcliffe

#49. We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

Warren E. Burger

#50. Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.

Larry Dixon

#51. One of the most helpful things I introduced (and of very considerable consequence to Canadians) was my ultimate success in persuading my colleagues (after continuing battle)to reduce the qualifying age for aged pensioners from seventy to sixty-five over a five year period.

Judy LaMarsh

#52. I think there is more pressure at trials when you are trying to make the team and you have to come first or second, and you have to go under qualifying time.

Stephanie Rice

#53. People say, 'You look so great for your age,' and I say, 'OK, you can leave off the 'for your age' part. Can we all stop qualifying it?'

Christie Brinkley

#54. I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis.

Gareth Bale

#55. The format of the race weekend is also very well thought out. We have enough practice time to get the cars well set-up and have a proper qualifying session where we can do as many laps as we like, which is great for the drivers and spectators.

Nigel Mansell

#56. Qualifying an opportunity at the outset helps you determine whether it's worth pursuing at all, and, if it is, with how much effort.

Tom Sant

#57. Complaining is the qualifying trait of the Weak, to be disqualified by the Wise in every sense.

Saurabh Dudeja

#58. When we're coming up to the race, the Friday, Saturday and Sunday, I always have the same lunch. So that's before the second practice, before qualifying and before the race, I always have a tuna vegetable risotto. The chef makes it slightly spicy, so there's a bit of a kick.

Valtteri Bottas

#59. One of my greatest pleasures in motor racing is qualifying. You have loads of freedom from pushing a lap the whole way. I've always been very good in qualifying in the past; everything I've done, I've got pole positions.

Bruno Senna

#60. When I'm on my own, I can be negative. I need my friends and family around to help pick me up if I've had a bad qualifying session. I think insecurity plagues a lot of sportspeople.

Jenson Button

#61. As humans with egos and feelings, none of us wants to be pilloried. But as thinkers and writers, it's our job to express opinions forthrightly and without qualifying them out of existence.

Meghan Daum

#62. Boston is the cream of the crop of the marathon world. It has such history that you feel such honor just being a part of it. All the other races have pacers to get you to a Boston qualifying time.

Summer Sanders

#63. It was a pretty wild ride. The race wasn't bad, but qualifying would take your breath.

Sterling Marlin

#64. Change your introduction so that you can change the outcome. Engage clients or they'll be thinking divorce.

Rob Liano