Quotes About Track Meets

#1. Impending death makes one run faster. I think that's probably why they fire a gun before track meets.

Gene Doucette

#2. If a female is good-looking, it totally decreases her credibility. Now she's not a good athlete - she's only good in these track meets because she's good-looking.

Lolo Jones

#3. An overzealous parent is just one example of the kind of Problem Mom or Dad who pops up at track meets, threatening to put a damper on the day.

Don Kardong

#4. Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

Roger Kahn

#5. Decathletes have to train for every event: sprints one day, field events the next. You pump up to make yourself strong enough to throw? Try pole vaulting at 250 pounds. There are 32 guys in most decathlons, and they're in 32 little track meets.

Caitlyn Jenner

#6. I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity.

Robert E.Lee

#7. 'The Wizard of Oz' is my favorite movie. It was the first movie I can ever remember watching.

Ezra Miller

#8. It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you.

Brie Larson

#9. There was an old joke. Miller didn't remember where he'd heard it. Girl's at her own father's funeral, meets this really cute guy. They talk, hit it off, but he leaves before she can get his number. Girl doesn't know how to track the guy down. So a week later, she kills her mom. Big laugh.

James S.A. Corey

#10. See what happens when you have sex with a guy and blow him off? It never ends well to break a guy's heart.

Stephanie Rowe

#11. You don't suppose this kind of thing is ever finished, do you? Tomorrow it'll be something else-and another fella will have to stand up. And you've helped give him the guts to do it!

Jerome Lawrence

#12. One has a moral obligation to take responsibility for one's actions, and that includes one's words and silences, yes, one's silences, because silences rise to heaven too, and God hears them, and only God understands and judges them, so one must be very careful with one's silences.

Roberto Bolano

#13. I feel like all my stars have aligned, and Uranus wants to knock me out of orbit.

Robin Alexander

#14. When a film works, the director had a lot to do with that, but the director also didn't have a lot to do with that. There are so many moving parts. It's really about being open to how the river is flowing and trying to get on the river.

Mike Mills

#15. A grumpy vampire is a homicidal vampire. Hungry ones were even worse.

MaryJanice Davidson

#16. How now! Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
Lady Macbeth

William Shakespeare

#17. Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

Mark Twain

#18. Now, Max, I have told you many times that you are my publisher, and permanently, as far as one can fling about the word in this too mutable world....The idea of leaving you has never for one single moment entered my head.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#19. If there's a God, he knows I'm doing the best I can.

James Patterson

#20. As long as there is institutional inequality, hell, naw we can't all get along!

M.G. Hardie