Quotes About Speed

You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous; how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes.

There are some people who watch NASCAR for the highly skilled driving - but most people watch it for the crashes.

Like every other car guy, I've watched 'The Fast and the Furious,' and I want to go out and race and drift and all the crazy stuff. Another one of my favorites is 'Cobra.' That's where I got my love for the Merc, where he had the one that had the license plate that said 'AWSOM 50.'

For most people, they only thing they know about bobsled is 'Cool Runnings.' Well, 'Cool Runnings' was, of course, four men in a bobsled, and four-man is considered the highlight of our sport. It's what everybody knows. It's what everybody watches. And it's the big dog of our sport.

I hear a lot of people who say they enjoy watching the road course races over the ovals.

I started watching Formula 1 with my dad when I was just four or five years old. I loved cars.

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.

Just by going fast enough, you can ride on water with a motorcycle.

No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it.

People talk about the speed of the English game, but in Italy, referees blow their whistles very often, so you cannot build up speed. In England, referees wave play on, and so it becomes faster.

Incidentally, think about the ramifications of storing data on light waves that can be stopped and started at the speed of light.

Wayne Rooney and Michael Owen form one of the best attacking duos in football, both are very quick and deadly.

Slow motion goes one of two ways. It either makes it look really, really cool, or it makes it look really, really bad.

We live inside our universe and cannot get a bird's-eye view of it from outside. And we cannot even see all of our universe. Distant parts of it are expanding away from us so fast that they are invisible; they go faster than the speed of light. Having bigger telescopes to see fainter stars will not help us here: invisible is truly invisible.

Time spent travelling was assumed to be unproductive and a monetary value attributed to the minutes that would be saved from a speedier journey that allowed people to get from one office to another more quickly. I've always thought that that case was weak.

Trouble results when the speed of growth exceeds the speed of nurturing human resources. To use the analogy of growth rings in a tree, when unusually rapid growth caused the rings to grow abnormally thick, the tree trunk weakens and is easily broken.

You want to go out there, and you want to be sharp, and you want to execute your game plan and... get it done fast.

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

On an awards-show day, I can play basketball, go in, take a shower and put on a tux - it takes me three minutes to put on a tux - and be out the door in 15 minutes.

With the ball I can run 37kmh but I've never been timed without it because my job is to play football. I'm not an athlete.

I'm a great player. I play fast; I'm a great tackler.

I love to drive. It's one of the most pleasurable things to me.

I believe coming up to heavyweight, I can shine. That's where I feel the best in terms of being agile, speed, cardio, all that kind of stuff plus I have the power.

Nobody can stay in front of me, plus I'm strong, so I can get to the hole and finish at the same time.