Ricky Carmichael quotes

“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

#Winning Quotes #Race Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Many people thought that riding for a new team and racing on a brand new bike would be a lot to overcome,”
-- Ricky Carmichael

#Team Quotes #People Quotes #Racing Quotes

“I'm worried about myself, not anybody else. I have my goals and I'm not worried about anyone. I need to take care of myself before I worry about someone else.”
-- Ricky Carmichael

#Goal Quotes #Worry Quotes #Needs Quotes

“It'll definitely be in the back of my mind,”
-- Ricky Carmichael

#Mind Quotes #Of My Mind Quotes

“Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.”

“All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.”

“Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.”

“I'm not an expert on the arms race.”

“Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.”

Source : Abraham Cowley, T. Sprat (1721). “Poems and other pieces published by the late Lord Bishop of Rochester; with some account of his life and writings”, p.719

“We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex.”

“I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.”

“If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.”

“Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.”

“The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.”