Quotes About Speed

Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.

I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.

I'm a casual F1 racing fan. I'm probably more of a stock car, NASCAR guy.

I would like to run about 15 stock car races a year. That would be my goal.

People say I stole a lot of bases. I stole the bases for a reason. I crossed the plate.

I was a lot smaller in high school, and guys were a lot bigger and faster than me. I stole some bases in high school, but it wasn't until my senior year that I started getting faster.

I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.

I even steal bases. I hear all the time that I'm slow, but hey, I have 66 stolen bases.

When you allow stolen bases, that changes the game.

If a stolen base is there based on a pitcher's time to the plate, then steal a bag.

The cars need to be louder so it goes through your skin and your stomach, like it used to be - and we need a bit more speed.

The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.

Time never stood still for me. It went too fast; that was the bad thing about it!

It's just scary to think how fast everything is rolling, and you can't stop it.

Adama Traore and Diogo Jota are incredibly fast and difficult to stop.

I can do the equivalent of 150 miles per hour and not get stopped. I could quite happily pursue people down the motorway in my helicopter.

I want to keep pushing the limits to see what's possible. That's the nice thing about ski racing - no one is stopping you from going faster.

No matter how fast or how slow you get to the quarterback, it all goes to slow motion when you get there. Everything just stops. You don't see anything but the quarterback. You don't hear anything but the quarterback's breath. It's almost like you're a shark. Your eyes get real big and everything's just quiet.

Combine speed is overrated. It might give you a good look to see what you can run in a straight line, but football's not played in a straight line.

I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.

Darren Campbell, the British Olympic sprinter, was my sprint coach at Middlesbrough - yet the best advice he gave me was to slow down. That might sound strange but he said: 'You have too much speed - you don't always need to run at 100 per cent.' I was used to running flat out every time, but he told me, 'You know how quick you are, slow down.'

Life-shortening though it might be, no way in clicking heck was I missing out on the zoomy reward for all my Alp-ascending toil. Going fast downhill is kind of the whole point of cycling; it's what makes it better than walking. Momentum

If the plane you fly has a true airspeed of 120 to 180 knots, you need to be thinking about weather at least 120 miles to 180 miles ahead of your present position. That means the conditions you'll face at least one hour in front of your present position should be carefully considered now.

Cuanto más deprisa te mueves, más lento pasa el tiempo y más vives.