Quotes About Winning A Race

#1. And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead, In the glare of the truth at last.

Robert W. Service

#2. You have to have a good race plan. Our race plan this morning was to win the heat and get into the finals tonight. Tonight will be the big race.

Alyson Ackman

#3. When you win a race your on top that day, so take it for what its worth, have a good time and party, cause the next day when you get out of bed, the meter goes back to zero again.

Bobby Allison

#4. Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later.

Michael Medved

#5. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Douglas Adams

#6. I struggled to stay on the pace there in the back half. But, at the end of the day I wanted to win this race. The Millrose is a prestigious event and it's definitely something I wanted to do in my career.

Kim Conley

#7. If you have a car and you win a race, you cannot just settle for that. You must try and make the car better. We're a good car but you always want a bigger engine.

Rafael Benitez

#8. I have just accepted certain things and it makes it easier. I accept I will get injured. I accept I cannot win every race. I work hard to decrease the chances of those things happening but I accept they will happen. A lot of people don't accept it. They get injured, they go crazy.

Usain Bolt

#9. To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start

Jean De La Fontaine

#10. I am as conservative as anyone running in this [president's] race, but I am a conservative that can win. That's a big deal.

Marco Rubio

#11. Self-esteem can't win you a race if you're not in shape.

Louis Zamperini

#12. How you run the race - your planning, preparation, practice, and performance - counts for everything. Winning or losing is a by-product, and aftereffect, of that effort.

John Wooden

#13. I don't believe in luck. Like I didn't win a lot of races for awhile, and it's because I didn't put myself in position to win enough of them.

Michael Waltrip

#14. A runner doesn't just show up and win a race. He trains long and hard. Do you just show up every day and hope to win?

Robin Sharma

#15. Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And maybe technology always wins.

Jack McDevitt

#16. In a race for limited resources, it is the energy efficient that will win the race

David Cameron

#17. Winning at Monaco feels unbelievable, because it's such a special race and it's also my home race. My first memories were of watching Ayrton Senna here with his yellow helmet, and one day dreaming to win the Monaco GP.

Nico Rosberg

#18. In the governor's race, Chris Bell has as good a shot as anybody in a four-way race. If Bell holds on to his base and connects with some people who are tired of the way things are going, he could win.

Ed Martin

#19. Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education.

Guy Finley

#20. Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.

Andrew Carnegie

#21. It was ridiculous really. I had just won a major race despite not being in top form, yet I was going to dope.

David Millar

#22. I'd rather run a gutsy race, pushing all the way and lose, than run a conservative race only for a win.

Alberto Salazar

#23. My life is parallel to a horse race. They have blinders on to keep them from being distracted in the race and keep them focused on winning the race. That's kind of like my life. Focus on the goal, not the things coming at me from the side.

Reggie Bush

#24. I became known as Lily Casey, the mustang-breaking, poker-playing, horse-race-winning schoolmarm of Coconino County, and it wasn't half bad to be in place where no one had a problem with a woman having a moniker like that.

Jeannette Walls

#25. We didn't win the Cold War, we were just a big bank that bankrupted a smaller bank because we had an arms race that wiped the Russians out.

Norman Mailer

#26. You put me in a race where there's a lot on the line, especially when people tell me 'you can't win', or 'you're too small', you tell me those things and I'll find a way to prove you wrong.

Mirinda Carfrae

#27. If you're going to win the race you have to be a participant

Peter Legge

#28. When you are at the Olympic Games, it comes down to a ten thousandth of a hair between making the next round or winning a race or getting second or third.

Apolo Ohno

#29. Running a marathon with a backpack is tough and may hinder you from winning the race. Don't let the baggage from your past - heavy with fear, guilt, and anger - slow you down.

Maddy Malhotra

#30. If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Charles Caleb Colton

#31. I'm looking forward to getting in Reliant and trying to get a win there. That's a great venue and a wonderful race.

Ricky Carmichael

#32. Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people you're beating
and there's something exquisite about that.

Hugh Laurie

#33. People who have known a person for many days but could never spot or appreciate his hidden talent in the first place, are likely to raise their suspicions on seeing him ever winning laurels in the life's race.

Anuj

#34. In a race, sooner or later there's a moment that separates the winner from those who don't win. That instant is your chance, the moment you've been waiting for.

Seth Godin

#35. Im winning races, Im still challenging for the world championships, the team is fantastic and I have a great relationship with everybody here - so why would I want to even consider changing?

Kimi Raikkonen

#36. I know I'll never feel that sensation of racing and winning again and that took a while to get used to. The Tour was a race I never thought I could lose.

Greg LeMond

#37. I'm just going to go out there and try to win the race. When you go out there trying to go for a record, you're usually not going to get it.

Ryan Lochte

#38. It's pointless to focus on others, as we can only control ourselves. I set a high bar and then it is my own private race. No one knows I'm winning or losing but me.

Jewel

#39. As a driver, you always dream of winning a F1 race, and to win so early on in my career was very special.

Pastor Maldonado

#40. To be a driver that can cross off one of those marquee events as a winner, that cements your legacy in motorsports, to be able to win the Daytona 500 is the ultimate dream of a race car driver.

Tony Stewart

#41. There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race.

John F. Kennedy

#42. You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

Ayrton Senna

#43. As a Formula One driver, you dream about winning your first race all your life. I am desperate to know what it feels like.

Sergio Perez

#44. I am going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race.

Johnny Gray

#45. A bull in a china shop is not a useful animal, nor is he ornamental, but there can be no doubt of his energy. The hare was full of energy, but he didn't win the race. The man who stands still is the man who keeps his ground.

Anthony Trollope

#46. I'd like to say I'm ready to kick ass and show the guys how it's done. But I'm not here to prove anything about being a woman. I'm here to drive a race car and try to win a race.

Lyn St. James

#47. We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

Kinky Friedman

#48. When runners win a big race these days, they get a car. When I won a big race, I got a ride.

Ron Delany

#49. There's no greater feeling than winning a race.

Jeff Gordon

#50. The way to win the race is not to trip somebody else. Simply have more energy. You will not only have a greater chance of winning; but whether you win or lose, you'll be happy.

Frederick Lenz

#51. The Daytona 500 is a career-winning race. It defines careers for drivers, crew members, crew chiefs and race teams. It has that power.

Jimmie Johnson

#52. If I didn't even stand a chance of winning races and competing for the title, I don't think I would be that interested in continuing my career.

Michael Schumacher

#53. Cultivate a sympathetic heart, humility in dealings, and selflessness in action. If these are practiced with earnestness and sincerity, then you will win the race of life.

Baba Hari Dass

#54. Feeling like a winner.
There is no need for a race after all.
I just mastered how to walk
Differently this time.

Priscilla Koranteng

#55. And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.

Hamilton Jordan

#56. Time does not heal, but it can liberate. A race run well can never be lost.

Dan Groat

#57. You know, I was pretty comfortable where I was at. We had cars that could win races (at Roush). I know (Joe Gibbs Racing is) expecting me to perform and do my job. Before this year, I can't remember the last time I've ever been nervous at all inside of a race car.

Matt Kenseth

#58. The satisfaction of achieving goals is the greatest thing for me. There is nothing like a great race or ride that gives you an amazing boost. It is very rewarding when you win or do well.

Liz Halliday

#59. If you want to win a horse race, you need your horse to be 100%.

Arsene Wenger

#60. I always remind myself if I'm having a down day because of a bad race it's not just me. That feeling I'm having is shared by my family, the team and my fans. When we win they feel the joy as well. That's why I say we win and lose together, and I definitely couldn't do it without them.

Lewis Hamilton

#61. I was brought up imagining that cream rises to the top, merit wins out, the race is to the swift and riches to men of understanding, but it ain't necessarily so. The swift stand a better chance if they are also beautiful.

Garrison Keillor

#62. To win the rat race, you have to think and behave like a cat.

Manoj Vaz

#63. I can't say I believe in prizes. I was a whiz in the three-legged race - that's something you CAN win.

Katharine Hepburn

#64. It's foolish to bet on a horse without talking to him first. I know it seems silly to ask a horse who's going to win a race - but it's no sillier than asking anyone else.

Gracie Allen

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

Randall Wright

#66. Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat.

Mike Tyson

#67. If you come off the start in a final in fourth or fifth, realistically, the best you can probably do is a podium - squeeze second, third. The chance of you winning at any major race if you get cut off down the hill is pretty remote.

Tory Nyhaug

#68. The only way to win a race is to run alone.

Nam June Paik

#69. Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#70. Keep the Feast of the Resurrection. Be a Peter or a John; hasten to the Sepulchre, running together, running against one another, vying in the noble race (cf. Jn. 20:3-4). And even if you be beaten in speed, win the victory of zeal; not looking into the tomb, but going in.

Gregory Of Nazianzus

#71. As a sportsman, I accept being beaten. Everybody tries to be a winner, but only one in a race will win. It's fun to win. But I don't find unhappiness if I lose.

Kipchoge Keino

#72. Wanting to win races is detrimental to courage. You tend to run too conservatively because you want to wait and sprint. If you are there to force the pace, to CREATE greatness rather than to have greatness, Courageous moves are a part of your race.

Gerry Lindgren

#73. There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The universe is trying to build bigger, better, and faster fools. So far the universe is winning.

Albert Einstein

#74. Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!

Beah Richards

#75. I have a race routine. I have a team of people helping me. I have winning habits. I believe in myself. I have balance in my life.

Lindsey Vonn