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Racing

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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

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  • 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.
  • 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!
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