Racing
competition of speed
In sports, racing is a competition of speed, in which competitors try to complete a given task in the shortest amount of time. Typically this involves traversing some distance, but it can be any other task involving speed to reach a specific goal.
Quotes
edit- The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
- Ecclesiastes 9:11 (NLT)
- Parodied by Damon Runyon: "The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's how the smart money bets."
- Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
- 1 Corinthians 9:24 (KJV)
- Swift was the course; no vulgar prize they play,
No vulgar victim must reward the day:
(Such as in races crown the speedy strife:)
The prize contended was great Hector’s life.
As when some hero’s funerals are decreed
In grateful honour of the mighty dead;
Where high rewards the vigorous youth inflame
(Some golden tripod, or some lovely dame)
The panting coursers swiftly turn the goal,
And with them turns the raised spectator’s soul.- Homer, Iliad, Book XXII, as Englished by Alexander Pope
- Gwine to run all night!
Gwine to run all day!
I'll bet my money on de bob-tail nag,
Somebody bet on de bay.- Stephen Foster, "Camptown Races", chorus
- Jack: What are your legs?
Archy: Springs. Steel springs.
Jack: What are they going to do?
Archy: Hurl me down the track.
Jack: How fast can you run?
Archy: As fast as a leopard.
Jack: How fast are you going to run?
Archy: As fast as a leopard!
Jack: Then let's see you do it!- Gallipoli (1981 film)
