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Quotes About Speed

The more I train the more I realize I have more speed in me.
~ Leroy Burrell
I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
~ Lance Armstrong
When I joined the trio, it was as if I was capable of driving a sports car at 60, but Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson just kept pressing the pedal down, and I was trying to control the car at 80!
~ Barney Kessel
My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
~ Bo Jackson
I started racing go-karts. And I love karts. It's the most breath taking sport in the world. More than F1, indeed, I used to like it most.
~ Ayrton Senna
I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
~ Muhammad Ali
In my sport, the quick are too often listed among the dead
~ Jackie Stewart
The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.
~ Richie Benaud
Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.
~ Oprah Winfrey
She wanted an Italian sports car - with the sport still in it.
~ Milton Berle
Every time I go out and race it's a goal to go out and run faster than I've done before.
~ Paula Radcliffe
It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close
~ Jesse Owens
Because running fast is more fun than running slow.
~ Frank Shorter
A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.
~ Bear Bryant
Normally, racing drivers come from a long line of previous successful sports people.
~ Lewis Hamilton
The evolution of the sport is so fast, if you slow down for a second, you're past.
~ Chuck Liddell
Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one.
~ Phil Jackson
Indy car racing is much more aggressive.
~ Emerson Fittipaldi
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
~ George Bernard Shaw
My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.
~ Gene Tunney
Independence is the outstanding characteristic of the runner.
~ Noel Carroll
Just give it everything you've got and bowl as fast as possible.
~ Imran Khan
What is speed? The sports press often confuses speed with insight. See, if I start running slightly earlier than someone else, I seem faster.
~ Johan Cruijff
To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound.
~ Steve Carlton