#racing

We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#before #blacks #embracing #expensive #first

The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia. ↗

— Davy Jones

#bug #go #go away #going #like

I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people. ↗

— Hamad bin Isla Al Khalifi

#country #dream #embracing #i #people

Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing. ↗

— Frank Shorter

#experience #fast #flow #focusing #going

Again, racing for me was about energy management. ↗

— Frank Shorter

#again #energy #management #me #racing

The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing. ↗

— Frank Shorter

#easy #elite #hard #learn #means

That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models. ↗

— Stephen Sprouse

#clothes #draw #how #i #models

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#book writing #business #horse #horse racing #like

I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing. ↗

— Major Taylor

#benefit #bicycle #champions #discourage #entertained

In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends. ↗

— Major Taylor

#among #beset #class #closest #closest friends