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I told him, I didn't have to prepare for anything like a normal rookie, because I never prepared, never had to think about it. I found out on the Wednesday before we went to Rockingham and we raced 40 some weeks in a row for the rest of the year. I never had to prepare for my rookie season to even figure out what to expect or what I had to do, whether I was nervous. I didn't know how much money I was making. I didn't know how many races I had to go to, I didn't have a contract. I didn't care.

It's a little shorter than most of the cross country races we go to. But for a program like ours where we utilize a lot of our middle distance runners, that's just fine.

It's a little nerve-racking watching the last couple of races go. All I could do was sit there and watch.

It's all signed, set, and I'm ready to go, ... It is a nice position to be in at this time of the year. It is nice to have that behind me and just concentrate on the job in hand and try and win races this year.

It's miraculous. I feel blessed. I'm still kind of shocked. I still can't believe I skated that fast. Those are the two best races I've ever skated. I really wasn't trying to put any pressure on myself. I was trying to be relaxed and enjoy the process, enjoy the event and I skated fantastic races, so I'm thrilled.

It's not like he's won 16 races in a row. There's really no added pressure.

For him not to finish as many races as he has is frustrating. I think this whole race-every-single-race deal - if everything is not lined up - is not productive. You have to back up and ask what is my priority? To compete at my best or just make another start?

For me, I'm sure I gained some respect racing with those guys. Especially as competitively as we did. We are looking forward to a few more races like that this year. It is hard to improve on that. You got six more spots to go and you can win one of those things. That's tough to do.

For me it's the perfect start to the championship. Eighteen points in two races is what I dreamed of before Bahrain.

For example, one of the more common ones is if a guy races you really hard, and it seems pointless at the time, then next time when he's in a position that he needs a break, you don't cut him one. That's sort of the main one that I probably deal with most often.

It's one of the toughest races on the program. We're looking to get a piece of it.

It's obviously a lot harder this year to win and actually I haven't won the races I should have and I've won some that I shouldn't have.

It's obviously one of the most prestigious races you could participate in. ... To win it, I don't even know how big it would be. I think it would rank right there with a win at the Daytona 500. I know our guys would really enjoy it and it would mean a lot to everyone on the AAA team. For me, as a driver, it would just be the coolest thing in the world.

It's the biggest thing in the state of Delaware except for maybe the NASCAR races in Dover,

It makes us feel ... it's hard to describe - it makes us feel special in some way. When we see them smile, it puts a smile on our face. Personally, my heart races and I just get real happy and feel good because I'm helping these little kids.

It's going to be a full slate at the Olympics. The 1,000 hasn't been my priority this year but it's an event I've used a lot to help me in the longer distances. I've had good 1,000 races all year and I love the event because it's nice and short. You can just hammer the whole thing.

It's fun to go to the races now because it's possible to win.

It's been a pretty graphic reflection of how much these nomination races are driven by momentum.

It's great to have the chance to practice under the lights, especially when both of our races are here at night.

It's really neat to look at the top-six times and see how fast the women are. It shows we have a lot of depth. Every year we just keep getting better and better. We wanted to go out in the first races of the year and show that our preparations are going well for the Olympics.

It's unbelievable. There are only a few big races in the world and this is definitely one of them. I can't believe we're sitting up here right now and that we won this race. Everybody's up late, you're tired, and there are a lot of things that go on. It hasn't even really sunk it yet that we actually won. It was so much fun and it feels great.

Donna Howard is just the tip of the iceberg. We're going to win races all up and down that ballot in November.

The numbers show we need effective efforts and the best way to do it is through a united front. We all want the same thing for our children and families. But when things are broken down by race, different races need to come together.

Eventually the Darley Arabian races to supremacy, ... The Darley Arabian is responsible for 95% of all the Y chromosomes in the half-million thoroughbreds that exist worldwide.

That's something I tried to do last year and again modeled that pattern this year -- just to run each of the regular-season races as if they were important, and they are definitely. But the final 10 and the intensity and pressure and anxiety to get to the racetrack and to have a solid finish . . . the final 10 is definitely so intense that you can wear yourself out before you even get there.

That is how I learned, by growing up around people who had experience. We go to a lot of races all over Indiana and it is something I enjoy.

That is definitely one of the hardest races we do all year, ... But it definitely fits my style. ... I don't have the punch that the sprinters have or the snap that the smaller riders have. I just outlast everyone in the long run. I can hold my energy longer for the more grueling races.

It's still mathematically possible for a lot of people to beat me. If you can win a championship and win a lot of races on the way, that would be pretty special. I would love to get six wins.

Everybody knows the story. I came here to watch races as a kid. I just want to go to victory lane here one time.

The best thing right now is to get him back to the races and have him running well. Sometimes when they've been away for as long as he's been, they lose a little something. I don't see that with him.

It's definitely a long shot. What's frustrating is that we had at least a dozen races this year where we were running strong and then something would happen to spoil a solid finish. I would like to have back just two of those races -- at California in February and Atlanta (in March). Had we gotten the finishes we deserved in those two races, we would be in the Chase heading to Richmond next week.

I told Erica she'll win way more races than I ever will. She's a win waiting to happen. I'm just glad that first one didn't come today with me in the other lane. She's very talented and she's got a lot of pressure on her being 22 years old and driving a car with a big sponsor. She might have been pushing it too hard today but she'll get hers.

I told Erica last year that I would rather be her any day of the week because she's going to win way more races than I ever did.

It's an exceptional accomplishment by co-hosts Dave Johnson and Bill Finley and producer Ed Pappas, and all of our team at Sirius to win this award. It was an extremely demanding challenge to broadcast all eight races of the World Thoroughbred championships, but we had first-rate people on the talent and production side to get the job done.

It's great to be a contender for the championship even if I only have a slim chance, ... The team believed in me from the start and so did PacifiCare so I am glad to give them all the podiums so far and especially the win in Montreal and put them in the position of fighting for another 1-2 finish in the championship. There are two races left and two opportunities to win and were going to try our best to do this. Bruno brought PacifiCare wins in Montreal and Australia last year and it would be nice if I could do that for them again this year.

It's difficult in this series, ... To have won six is a very proud moment for me. To win six races is something I'll look back on and think that was a strong season.

It's both. Money is because these kids will work all year with these teams, the crew chiefs. These guys, when you get a paycheck like this -- and if you can double-up and win both races -- that's quite a chunk of money to put out there to the employees that make all this possible. Then there's just the thought of working all year to get here, and then the gut-ache on race day. If you win it's victory, if you lose it's gut-ache. Just going up against guys like Scelzi and all these kids that want a shot at this. I really get up for it. It's really big if you can win it because it's two races in one. That's what's a turn-on for me.

It was like I had to win two races -- one in the dry, then in the wet.

Oh, no, oh, no. I feel very good, and I'm very happy with the race team. We've all been doing our jobs and having fun in the process, but it's a long season. We're only three races into it. I know our cars can be better. They can be faster, they can drive a little better.

It was a great season for me. I want to focus on quality races next year.

It was a good race for us. We got behind here the first four races and we just needed to have a good run. We put ourselves in the position to win and we just came up one spot short.

It was one of those races where I could do a comfortable lap time. But when I tried to push a little harder in the last five laps, I couldn't do it.

It was one of the greatest races I've ever seen. In any sport.

It's very rare for me. It's almost like an unreal situation, but that makes you appreciate it more when you get back ? that pennant races and going to the playoffs just doesn't happen automatically. It humbles you.

It's tough for her to cover everything and she just ran into a little bit of a wall. If the races weren't so difficult, maybe she could have pulled it off by herself.

I want to run both races. It's not easy to compete in both races and this year I want to complete the double race for the last time.

I wanted to win both races and I did. I'm planning to do that next time again.

I wanted to win both races and I did. I am planning to do that next time, too.

It takes a toll on you. Four races would have been tough.

It will be like riding in the Tour de France. We've got hills, time trials, road races and wind. Of course, it's not as severe, but it's a mini-Tour de France, and it's in our back yard.

It will be interesting to see how those races shake out.

It will be great to work with Rowan as he's a good racer and races in his own cars,

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.

The World Marathon Majors marks the first time in the sport's history that the world's top five races have joined together for the common good and promotion of the sport by creating a unified global circuit of the sport's best and most prestigious 26.2-mile championships.

It was just the fact that ours (fuel use) was so visible; our cars used gas. If you took a typical NFL weekend, with planes criss-crossing the country with teams, one team would use as much or more fuel back and forth across the country than we would in 10 races or so.

It was a furious race. Everyone was just flat out. It was one of the most furious races I've ever been in. The track didn't have much grip after it rained (earlier in the day). The car was just perfect on the turns that really mattered for passing, and that's what told the story.

There's too much riding on these races to do something stupid, ... Everybody will race hard, but we all know what's at stake in these last four races.

These two officials basically had one job to do and that was to ensure that the weight of the jockeys was recorded accurately and then disclosed to bettors, ... Instead, they misled the public and compromised the integrity of races run by NYRA.

These two-hour races for Champ cars, I'm all down with that. Wake up in the morning, race, go party after.

This is a very competitive sport, and things aren't going to go your way every year. But we are capable of so much more, and we'll use these next 10 races to try to get back to that level.

Once the visitor was told rather repetitively that this city was the melting pot; never before in history had so many people of such varied languages, customs, colors and culinary habits lived so amicably together. Although New York remains peaceful by most standards, this self-congratulation is now less often heard, since it was discovered some years ago that racial harmony depended unduly on the willingness of the blacks (and latterly the Puerto Ricans) to do for the other races the meanest jobs at the lowest wages and then to return to live by themselves in the worst slums.

After such a great race at Spa and only three races left, everybody is very motivated to go to Brazil. The extra point could not have come at a better time. Brazil will be a very difficult track physically because of its anticlockwise configuration and also because it is quite technical to find a good set-up. We will have to be ready for the challenge. Of course, I am as motivated as ever - even more than ever - and I am looking forward to being there.

After the races I immediately climbed into a car. We have a picture of me in the car with a big grin on my face like, 'I want to do this; this is fun.' When I saw that kids were racing quarter midgets, I begged my dad to let me start racing, and he eventually gave in." ()

After the last few races I'm hoping for a change of fortune and get my season back on track with a return to winning ways.

It's no big secret how important these last three races are for our team in regards to making the Chase,

It's real exciting to have two weeks to go and all three of us in it. Really the previous 14 races mean absolutely nothing at this point. I'm excited to see how these last two races go.

So, 11 victories is fantastic and always race in this track is different, is magic, ... I win a lot of times here, a lot of important races for my career and I love this track.

At this time of year, trainers with a good 3-year-old are looking forward to the first Saturday in May. I try to write as many races as I can for them to help them develop their horses.

That's definitely been talked about. A lot of people see how the F-1 races go. You have a huge team of people to call a race correctly. It's nice to have technology and all of those things going on, but you have to see the things in person.

A rivalry doesn't happen in one or two races or in one year. It happens over a period of time to really get a rivalry going. We race together three or four races and get to beating on each other, that's not a rivalry, that's just a happening. You do that four or fives years, that's a rivalry.

The joy of an afternoon at the races now means being in the owner's box of a very empty racetrack.

The feeling I got from rallycross was a little bit more of the NASCAR aspect of it; it's a family of races where racing is a passion, and it's not the politics that come with it.

The fans wanted this championship to come down to the final race and that's what they've got. I would much rather sew up the title early and I've been lucky enough to do that a number of times in my career, but I'll go out there in the last two races and do the best I can to win it this way. The fact that the championship would come down to the final race is something I've said all season. There's just too much talent in the series for anything else to happen.

I like Brno, Motegi, Sepang, Qatar... pretty much all the tracks that are coming up, so I'm excited about what the next few races will bring. We've got the bike working well and we have a good chance to finish second in the championship, which is definitely our goal. Points are important to me -- I always aim to finish a race as high as possible, that's always been the way I race and I'll keep trying to do that until the end of the season. At the same time it would be great to win a race...so I'm going to try for both!

I like all the races and dodgeball. They're really fun.

I loved the thrill of the race. I didn't lose very often. I won 35 out of 36 races in 1964. Drag News Magazine called me 'the Babe Ruth of drag racing' in January 1965. I was undefeated for two years or more.

I know Vince would love to win a championship and Joel has never won one. It's real close between the three of them and I think these last races are going to be real exciting.

I know Plastered has won 10 races but his weight will be based around one race only, and that's the Victoria Derby,

I knew we had something when I let people read the script. We had people who were sports fans and not sports fans. We had men. We had women. We had young. We had old. We had people of different races and of different sexual orientations and everyone cried. Not just one or two -- everyone. These are people who didn't know anything about Marshall, who didn't know anything about football. They were just so swept up in the story that they just cried.

I knew right before we went to that last yellow caution that Spencer didn't really have a lot of rear tire left. So I gave him room on the restart so as not to be on top of him and have the other competition right behind me. I opened on the guy behind me, and when I got to 'Spence' his tires were already off a lap or two and I could make my move. Today was one of the toughest races mentally because it was such a good race; plus we needed to get points for the championship lead. I'm really glad we did it, though.

I'm really happy we are now consistently in the hunt for a podium spot. We only have a couple of races before the Olympics so it is time to get things in gear.

I'm looking forward to seeing what will happen. There should be some good races Friday.

I'm looking forward to getting back on the bike. I've been off it for three weeks and it seems like forever. We're looking forward to improving our results from the test. We weren't able to go as quick as we would have liked then. I'm anxious to get some laps in, work with the team to maybe change some things with the setup, and just ride better. We have two races ahead of us and like I said, I just want to get back out there on the track.

I'm kind of (working) off what I did last year, winning those five races at the beginning of the season, and kind of going toward what we learned at the end of the season. It seems to be working.

I'm looking to compete in February at Squaw and then, whatever comes up. But like I said. I really just like doing it for fun, so there's no telling how many or how few races I'll enter this season. To me, it's all about having fun.

I'm probably going to do more races than I expected at the Olympics but I'm very excited about it. Qualifying for the 10,000 was one of my big goals. I had a great race last month at a World Cup and I was happy to repeat that performance here.

I'm particularly looking forward to team strategies throughout the season; which drivers they choose for particular sessions, when they use the power boost during races and so on.

I'm old enough to remember the '60's and the civil rights movement and all the strong tension between the races that existed during that time.

I'm just going to train him right into the Donn. He had five hard races last year, so I gave him a little break after the Clark, but he's back working now and doing good.

I'm running my own races now and having fun winning. I just want to keep winning races, that's my goal right now and I'm not thinking that much about the points. If I can keep this streak alive then maybe at some point I'll have a shot.

If many thousands of illegal aliens marched in their zeal, many more millions of Americans of all different races and backgrounds watched - and seethed. They were struck by the spectacle of illegal alien residents lecturing citizen hosts on what was permissible in their own country.

I had thought the year following the 2004 Olympics would not be so busy. But it turned out to be very busy. I competed in Golden League races and world championships and quite a few domestic races.

I had a problem dropping out of races in 2004. It's all right. I was close, just a couple seconds off of qualifying.

I never say anything is impossible. But I am just focusing on reaffirming what I did at the Commonwealth Games. I am here to learn from all of my races and see what I can do after such a big program at the Commonwealth Games. I haven't had a chance to come down from my achievements.

I'm very positive. My last three races at the World Cup I was on the podium and two of them I lost by a slim margin. I have nothing to worry about. I have all my equipment. Everything is falling in place.

I needed a good driver for the midget team, but since I'm not able to go to all of the USAC races anymore, I did what a lot of the car owners in the Cup and Busch Series do, and that's pick up National Speed Sport News every week,

I'm happy with where we are coming into Anaheim. Everyone else has a lot of race experience on the four-strokes and I've just got two races on the bike. I'm still learning and getting more comfortable with it. I've had to change my riding style a bit, but I plan on training harder than ever to get ready for Anaheim and the rest of the season.

I'll be back in this race next year, and I hope my schedule gives me the chance to run more of these races this season.

I like the races when we practice and qualify on the same day. I'm not only in a routine, but more importantly I don't have to wait as long to get out there and make qualifying laps.

I like the races when we practice and qualify on the same day,