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Quotes About Speed

We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.
~ Rafael Nadal
Some fighters had blinding speed and reflexes in their heyday but faded badly with age.
~ Carl Froch
The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy and outlaws daring.
~ Eduardo Galeano
Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light. It seems very attractive to refuel your space ships where the fuel is.
~ Wilson Greatbatch
Scaling a business at speed can feel like an out of control roller-coaster.
~ Taavet Hinrikus
Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.
~ Evan Parker
You don't get a mix of ovals and road/street course racing with this level of competition and speed anywhere other than Indy Car, and I think that's why it has remained a popular choice for so many young drivers.
~ Charlie Kimball
I like the way football is played in England: the speed, the style of play, the high rhythm.
~ Jesus Navas
When practicing, it's great to break a part down into its different elements, start slowly, and then try to build up the speed until you're playing as fast as you possibly can.
~ Synyster Gates
No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company.
~ Edward Whitacre, Jr.
As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.
~ Frank Shorter
Football is a game of speed and drama.
~ Hector Bellerin
God just blessed me with quickness and speed, I guess.
~ Aaron Donald
If there is a small rocket on top of a big one, and if the big one is jettisoned and the small one is ignited, then their speeds are added.
~ Hermann Oberth
When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.
~ Antonio Damasio
At the end of the day, driving on the limit, sometimes over it to achieve the best out of it, especially at such high speeds... mistakes are easily done.
~ Max Verstappen
The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.
~ Maria Mitchell
I think speed climbing is kind of an artificial discipline. Climbers compete on the same holds and train on the same holds, which doesn't have much in common with the climbing philosophy in my opinion.
~ Adam Ondra
I enjoy putting myself in situations where you are nervous, but you need to enjoy yourself also. I've done skydiving, bungee jumping. I quite like those sensations - when you feel a little bit nervous and you don't really know where you are going. It's a quite good sensation that I love. I like the speed; I like everything.
~ Stan Wawrinka
The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.
~ Alan Shepard
Me being a shorter guy, I am pretty quick out of the blocks and can get up to top speed maybe a little faster than some guys.
~ Christian Coleman
Creativity is our North Star. This way of working and this speed, this new opening and innovation, putting everything in discussion must remain at the base of what we do.
~ Marco Bizzarri
People think the future is all about being green and clean. It's going to produce the fastest cars the world has ever seen. It is going to be incredible, it is going to be a speed fest.
~ Chris Harris
I found boxing so, so easy with incredible power, speed, and accuracy.
~ Naseem Hamed