Great Race Quotes:

I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races. The races are better.

- Mark Helprin

source: Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Race, Victory, Great Race, Great Victory

He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day.

- Oliver Goldsmith

source: Oliver Goldsmith (1900*). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The life of Oliver Goldsmith”

topic: Running, Fighting, May, Great Race

He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.

- Benjamin E. Mays

topic: Running, Men, Race, Great Race

Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.

- Ian Mcewan

topic: Thinking, Race, Needs, Great Race

A great race car driver in a bad car doesn't make great results. A great car and a bad race car driver doesn't make great results. You have to have both. It's the combination of driver and car.

- Jeff Burton

source: "Daytona Preseason Thunder - Burton press conference, part 2". Press conference, www.motorsport.com. January 15, 2008.

topic: Race, Car, Results, Race Car, Race Car Driver

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

source: Source: www.ncwit.org

topic: Winning, Race, Giving, Great Race

Think of the majesty of that moment in this dying world's history, when Jesus Christ declared that to the Christian death was only a sleep. Outside of that small dwelling in Capernaum, a great race of men rushed and toiled as they harassed continents and seas; mighty events marshaled themselves into annals and pageants. What was inside? In one inconspicuous chamber of a now forgotten house, man's Redeemer, unobserved, martyred man's final enemy. There Immanuel subdued death forever.

- Charles Seymour Robinson

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 64, 1895.

topic: Christian, Jesus, Sleep, Martyred, Pageant

Dear Heavenly Father, sometimes I feel like I’m not going to make it. Thank You for friends that come alongside me and cheer me on when I feel like I’m about to go under. Most of all, thank You for always being with me and cheering me on in the great race of life. I love You!

- Sharon Jaynes

topic: Cheer, Father, Love You, Great Race

Pat Fox out to the forty(yard line) and grabs the sliothar(ball), I bought a dog from his father last week. Fox turns and sprints for goal, the dog ran a great race last Tuesday in Limerick. Fox to the 21 fires a shot, it goes to the left and wide......and the dog lost as well.

- Micheal O Muircheartaigh

topic: Dog, Father, Race, Limerick, Great Race

After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous doom overtook the elder world. Later, as the earth's span closed, the transferred minds would again migrate through time and space -- to another stopping place in the bodies of the bulbous vegetable entities of Mercury. But there would be races after them, clinging pathetically to the cold planet and burrowing to its horror-filled core, before the utter end.

- H. P. Lovecraft

source: H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)”, p.1404, Delphi Classics

topic: Men, Vegetables, Civilization, Migrate, Burrowing

Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team member. And being a team member makes you a better person.

- Tom Kristensen

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Team, Race, Better Person, Great Race

Coming into tonight, I knew it was going to be a great race, ... In the 400, Laszlo put up a 4:10.1 earlier in the year, and so you expect him to put up a good time in (the 200). I knew Ryan was going to be fast coming off his short course season, and he's improved a lot since Athens, so I just wanted to go out there and relax a bit and go out there and do what I had to do.

- Michael Phelps

topic: Swimming, Years, Race, Great Race

I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor a race of women better adapted to make a great country.

- Emily Murphy

topic: Country, Believe, Race, Great Race

The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other...consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of mankind, must be collected at once or the opportunity will be lost for all time.

- Edward S. Curtis

source: Edward S. Curtis (2015). “The Apache, The Jicarillas, The Navajo”, p.16, Native American Book Publishers, LLC

topic: Mean, Opportunity, Men, Possessed, Rite

If American Idol was the Olympics, I'd still get a medal. It was a great race.

- Kimberley Locke

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Race, Idols, Olympics, Great Race