Quotes About Starting A Race

#1. When I'm starting a race, I just completely narrow down my vision and focus on what's directly ahead of me.

Brittany Bowe

#2. Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts.

Dianne Feinstein

#3. The only reason nice guys finish last is because they think they'll finish last. You don't win the race by walking around the starting line saying 'I'm not going to win this race'.

Mitch Rowland

#4. Perhaps the grimmest aspect of this great paradox is that the very nations that are chiefly responsible for starting and for maintaining the Disarmament Conference are also the nations that have begun a new arms race.

Arthur Henderson

#5. Life is a race. If you delay starting, how can you have any hope of winning?

Randall Wright

#6. Does anyone in this room have it?"
"No, Chris, no one here has it."
"How do you know?"
"Because the mark was dark skin. Negroes are the descendants of Cain."
I didn't have my civil-rights sensibilities yet, but I was starting to get a bad feeling about God ...

Chris Crutcher

#7. The race is lost. You can't overtake here and I'm starting from 15th ... It's over already.

Fernando Alonso

#8. I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

Alain Prost

#9. You can't wait for the race to start to get ready. That's a loss. You must get your mind right before you get to the starting line. Mindset is everything!

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#10. I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Alberto Salazar

#11. We were all born by accident but this wandering caravan
will make camp in perfection
Forget the nonsense categories of there and here, race, nation, religion, starting point and destination
You are soul, and you are love, ...
No more questions now as to what it is we're doing here

Coleman Barks

#12. At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.

Jules Michelet

#13. You know, I can actually understand Kurt's logic. Why save an entire race of people when all they're doing is destroying? Starting wars. Destroying the environment. Destroying each other. Destroying what makes them human.

Alessia Dickson

#14. I was nervous starting off today. I was nervous because I felt like I was going to play good and shoot a good round. I was trying to calm myself down. This race is a long race. The eagle at two was helped, but I was trying not to be too eager.

Jay Haas

#15. I do believe that in a race, it is naive to think Linux has a hope of making a dent against Microsoft starting from way behind with a fraction of the resources and amateur labor. (I feel the same about Unix.

Kenneth P. Thompson

#16. Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.

Rob Sheffield

#17. Another form of laziness is thinking: 'That's not for me; it's beyond my abilities. I'd rather not get involved with it.' In other words, you give up the race before you reach the starting line.

Matthieu Ricard

#18. They turned their desks into a trigonometric war room, poring over equations scrawling ideas on blackboards, evaluating their work, erasing it, starting over.

Margot Lee Shetterly

#19. I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point
race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.

Molly Ivins