#racing

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time. ↗

— Greg LeMond

#acquiring #element #experience #fundamentals #important

You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing. ↗

— Greg LeMond

#bike #i #i love #just #kill

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ↗

— Lucretius

#angels #another #each #embracing #fly

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

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

— John Steinbeck

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

Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets. ↗

— Ice T

#embracing #everybody #happy #hip #hip hop

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