Top 565 Speed Quotes

You can see a lot of politics on a lot of different channels. I’m not interested, really, in talking in some wonky conversation about politics, though. It’s not my speed. I’m not interested in the ins and outs of health care.
Joy Behar
I like to have the puck when I have speed. You know, then I’m dangerous.
Alexander Ovechkin
Players who win on a clay surface are those who can control the ball, playing steadily and accurately from the back-court, keeping the ball in play and moving it around with changes of speed and spin, and resisting the temptation to over-hit.
Rod Laver
I know the way I play is with speed and ability.
Adama Traore
The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.
Alan Shepard
It ain’t the technique, it ain’t the speed, it ain’t the power. It’s who wants it the most.
B. J. Penn
I say it time and time again: You have to do things with force and speed and pace.
Erik Spoelstra
Today, tomorrow and every day, we will see at least 2,000 young children killed or seriously injured on the world’s roads. This is unacceptable, preventable, and we have to stop it. We have the vaccines for this disease: helmets, seatbelts, speed enforcement, safe road design. We just need to use them.
Michelle Yeoh
To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and just focusing on training.
Sugar Ray Leonard
My weakness might be that the guys with the longer legs can hold their top speed a little bit longer and might not slow down as fast at the end of the race.
Christian Coleman
For me speed and power is the most important thing on the footy field as well as agility which I work on everyday.
Israel Folau
Every organization goes through a lifecycle where they eventually lose their initial speed or agility at a strategic level.
John P. Kotter
Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you’re using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although maybe something to do with reaction, the speed of reaction, maybe that was of use during the training.
Chiaki Kuriyama
Because my lower body is quiet, I need a full shoulder turn to generate power and speed. Keep your tempo smooth, and with the quiet lower body, you don’t have to worry about losing your balance.
Tony Finau
People perceive me as this kind of hippy intellectual, reflecting and communing with nature or in a pyramid somewhere chanting. Really, no. I love speed, fast things, quad and road bikes, and bombing down a mountain.
Bill Bailey
Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks.
Jonathan Raban
At one point, I didn’t really consider myself as a puncher because it was more so that the speed created the knockouts. People were getting hit with punches they didn’t see and they were going down.
Daniel Jacobs
My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you’re talking ‘Madden.’
Carl Crawford
We can celebrate the speed at which LGBT equality has progressed, but we also have to acknowledge that it wasn’t fast enough, because too many people didn’t get to experience it. We can never be too impatient.
Sarah McBride
CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally… Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.
Al Gore
Finally, I have to say that the most surprising aspect has been the speed at which the folks in India adapt to Western practices. They learn fast, really, really fast.
Sanjay Kumar
There’s times when I’ll be out in the middle of the track, standing in the curve, and I’ll just laugh. ‘What the heck am I doing right now? I’m sliding down the hill at crazy speeds and standing in freezing cold weather.’
Elana Meyers
Second novels are bears. As are other people’s expectations for them. I think taking the time you need with the second book is key. Writers spend years and years on their first novels and then are often expected to turn out a second at warp speed, a recipe for failure.
Jandy Nelson
I think I can pinpoint the moment that I realized that I enjoyed hip-hop music and it was the video game called Need For Speed Underground.
Mura Masa
No one holds a permanent speed advantage in the market due to the limits of human intelligence and vision. Your advantage comes from your ability to feel the change faster and take decisive action faster.
Guo Guangchang
The speed with which WikiLeaks went from niche interest

The speed with which WikiLeaks went from niche interest to global prominence was a real-time example of the revolutionizing power of the digital age in which information can spread instantly across the globe through networked individuals.
Heather Brooke
Watching some heavyweights like Mike Tyson, he inspired me to work with my speed because he beat people with power, but most of the time, he beat people with speed.
Francis Ngannou
It’s good to have different ways to break opponents down, and speed is a big part of my game.
Jesus Navas
Speed is something that, in the heavyweight division, we don’t have a lot of.
Francis Ngannou
I think we all, as drivers, come to the table with a package. It’s either your speed and raw talent, your sponsorship money, your nationality. For me, one of my unique selling points is my gender, without a doubt.
Susie Wolff
I had relatives who would go to Japan and bring back random stuff they bought at the airport or whatever – ‘Ultraman’ and ‘Speed Racer,’ stuff like that.
Adrian Tomine
Lyoto is never going to lose his skills. He might lose his timing, speed, cardio, but he’ll never lose his skills.
Derek Brunson
People always ask me how I can hit the ball so far, and I say, ‘I just swing.’ It’s the coaches who first told me I had good bat speed. I was just swinging, and I guess it was fast. I’m pretty fast at everything.
Eric Davis
The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they’re on the news. That, I think, is valuable.
Salman Rushdie
The speed with which we in the Congress are going down is sometimes frightening. Government administration in the districts is rapidly reaching a low level. No strong opposition party has been able to emerge.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
Plato
Team sports aren’t my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don’t need a partner to go running, you don’t need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.
Haruki Murakami
I happen to love engineering. I love figuring things out in a spatial sense, that whole realm of working with mechanical parts, and the relationship of the parts, and things like ratios and the speeds of particular objects.
Arthur Ganson
You amp things up and you speed things up, but technically, you can still be legally correct. This is the big beef I have with novels as well as television shows – it actually makes for a better show when you accommodate the truth.
Marcia Clark
Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking; even then, the chances of being hit by a public bus at 30,000 feet are remarkably slim. I also have no problem with confined spaces. Or heights. What I am afraid of is speed.
Sloane Crosley
I just didn’t realize the unbelievable impact Disney films had on American society until my assistant coached me on the stories and brought me up to speed.
Roger Ross Williams
With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.
Robert Morgan
A strong and enthusiastic niche audience can push a topic into mainstream consciousness with speed and force.
Rachel Sklar
Yellow fever outbreaks are not uncommon. But, as with other infectious diseases, when they occur in urban areas, they can play out very differently – not least in terms of the speed and scale at which they can spread.
Seth Berkley
The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
Lee Iacocca
The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.
Edward Thorndike
Everybody loves a horror story because it’s a roller coaster ride -you wait for the slow ride to the top then speed down with all the bumps, twists and turns.
Tony Todd
When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.
Russel Honore
First of all you need to have speed. If you only have experience and don’t have the speed, then you are never going to get the speed. This is the main point. So you are better off getting someone quick and you develop him with experience.
Rubens Barrichello
You learn tricks to make action look more dynamic – having the fight come toward you or shooting on a longer lens to compress the speed.
David Leitch
The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.
Barney Oliver
Almost everybody I know has this sense of overdosing on information and getting dizzy living at post-human speeds.
Pico Iyer
If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys.
Yanni
Besides Germany, the only countries that don’t have speed limits are places like Nepal, where road conditions are so bad that a limit would be beside the point. In other words, it’s a little crazy that this is even a topic for debate in Germany.
Sigmar Gabriel
OK, so what’s the speed of dark?
Steven Wright
I think I’ve lost that ability to slow things down – that ability drivers have to calculate what’s coming by you at tremendous speed. I used to have it.
Chris Rea