Top 100 Winning Race Quotes
#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. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start
Jean De La Fontaine
#8. 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
#9. Self-esteem can't win you a race if you're not in shape.
Louis Zamperini
#10. Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds.
R. K. Milholland
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. I always thought, from day one, that winning races was just doing your job.
Ron Dennis
#14. You arrive at Formula One being very skeptical, how far can your talent deal with all this, and then you understand those guys are human and pretty reasonable, and finally succeeding in winning your first race, in circumstance as such, it was just an amazing moment.
Michael Schumacher
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.
Henry David Thoreau
#18. Sometimes we are so focused on winning the race that we do not realize that we may possibly be in the wrong race. My
Ashwin Sanghi
#19. In a race for limited resources, it is the energy efficient that will win the race
David Cameron
#20. Jack Roush is the only guy that could keep Matt Kenseth from winning races.
Kyle Petty
#21. You can neither win nor lose if you don't run the race
David Bowie
#22. Walking with the projected chest
Feeling like you just won
The race has been tough
But the joy of winning is too good;
Priscilla Koranteng
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. Race cars are neither beautiful nor ugly. They become beautiful when they win.
Enzo Ferrari
#26. The biggest thing for me is the self-satisfaction of winning the race. I don't care about who gets the most attention. I've achieved something that's very special to me.
Dan Wheldon
#27. I have to win races. It's not even an option.
Joey Logano
#28. The problem with the race to the bottom is that you might win
Seth Godin
#29. Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education.
Guy Finley
#31. 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
#32. I'd rather run a gutsy race, pushing all the way and lose, than run a conservative race only for a win.
Alberto Salazar
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. Slow and steady wins the race. 'The hare and the tortoise
Robert Lloyd
#36. Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race.
Joseph Barbera
#37. 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
#38. If you're going to win the race you have to be a participant
Peter Legge
#39. 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
#40. 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
#42. 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
#43. Life is not about winning the race. Life is about finishing the race, and how many people we can all help finish this race. How we can start being kinder to each other
Marc Mero
#44. Horsepower sells motorcars and torque wins motor races.
Carroll Smith
#45. 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
#46. In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning.
Amby Burfoot
#47. 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
#48. [Sharron Angle] said, 'I can't win without you getting out of the race.' But I said I couldn't. I'm going to beat Harry Reid.
Scott Ashjian
#49. 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
#50. It's pretty cool to be able to hang out with the President and have the race-winning car on the South Lawn.
Buddy Rice
#51. 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
#52. Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself.
Benjamin Franklin
#53. It is never wise to run any race but your own.
Tim Fargo
#54. Winning and being smart is not all that required, but the fulfillments of the Christian race brings peace ,joy to the mind and soul.
Jerry Y. Sarkw.
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. After winning the Derby aged just 18-Why all the fuss? After all, the Derby is just another race.
Lester Piggott
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. In Las Vegas we all know that it's the croupiers who win. At the race track, it's those who control the handle who win. State lotteries, does anybody think the participants in the lottery win? No. The state wins.
John C. Bogle
#61. 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
#62. You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.
Ayrton Senna
#63. 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
#64. When we clearly understand that there is no superior sex or superior race, we will have opened the door of communication and laid the foundation for building winning relationships with all people in this global world of ours.
Zig Ziglar
#65. I am going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race.
Johnny Gray
#66. He swift don't win the race. It goes to the worthy, who can divide the word of truth.
Bob Dylan
#67. 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
#69. The individual in the framework and in the service of his race, the race in the framework and in the service of God and of the laws of the divinity: those who will understand these things will win even though they are alone. Those who will not understand will be defeated.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
#70. 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
#71. When runners win a big race these days, they get a car. When I won a big race, I got a ride.
Ron Delany
#72. There's no greater feeling than winning a race.
Jeff Gordon
#73. I will always cherish the times at JGR. The only thing that I regret is that we didn't win more races and/or championships.
Bobby Labonte
#74. I like the race, rather than the winning.
Do you really?
Yes, I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races. The races are better.
Mark Helprin
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can't come back, because caged lions don't mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you
must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers.
T.D. Jakes
#80. 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
#81. Time does not heal, but it can liberate. A race run well can never be lost.
Dan Groat
#82. 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
#83. Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we could look at winning more races. Three race wins would be very satisfying.
Damon Hill
#84. 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
#85. If you want to win a horse race, you need your horse to be 100%.
Arsene Wenger
#86. 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
#87. It's neat for Kyle to win, ... I think you'd have sympathy for anybody if you put yourself in that situation and got taken out of the race car. But I have absolutely no information about what was going on.
Greg Biffle
#88. You run the race to win, that's for sure.
Sarah Palin
#89. 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
#90. Life is a race. If you delay starting, how can you have any hope of winning?
Randall Wright
#91. 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
#92. 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
#94. 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.
#95. When I first started racing, my father said, Win the race as slow as you can.
Richard Petty
#96. 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
#97. Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!
Beah Richards
#99. Don't rely on the president to win you the race. You can have the president help you. Use the popularity that he has. That may get you an ear into some of these voters, but he isn't going to close the deal.
Christopher Michael Cillizza
#100. 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
