Race Quotes

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.

There’s something special about racing in real streets. The ‘artificial’ circuits have a certain sameness to them.

The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.

Al Unser Sr. was one of the smartest drivers I’ve ever raced against.

It makes great conversation to discuss what’s wrong with open-wheel racing today.

We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don’t know is how to photograph affluence – whose other face is poverty.

The existence of a higher power with any consciousness or interest in the human race or ability to punish or reward humans for their moral choices or that there is any reason other than fear to believe in any version of an afterlife, I will give you my piano, one of my legs and my wife.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.