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I've been skiing too many races this past week.

I've been very fortunate in my career to win a lot of important races and big races that we have, a lot of them with this guy beside me, ... But at this point in time in my career I'm not sure there's anything that was more important. Today came at a very good time for a lot of us.

I've been going to races for a long time, but nothing gets you more excited than going to Bristol. As a crew chief, you're plenty busy and you don't have the luxury of a lot of time before you have to make a call sometimes. Everything happens faster here. Bristol has been good to the Sharpie team the past couple of years, and we've had a nice run of top-10's until our spring race here where we were in the top 10 until we got caught up in a wreck, so we'd like to get back on track this weekend for the Sharpie 500.

I use Beyer Figures as a tool, but I don't need them to build my confidence up. I think I've got a horse that does what he has to do to win and not a lot more. From what I've seen of the races this year, Cause to Believe is in the hunt. He has shown as much or more than a lot of horses that are being considered.

The whole view that this was going to be over quickly and it would be off to the races was just pie in the sky. My sense is that this could easily drag on for months. At what point does that hit people like a two-by-four?

I've worked with Steve for more than 10 years and we already communicate extremely well, both on and off the track. The team has a ton of confidence in his abilities, so we're looking forward to the last 10 races of 2005 and getting an early jump on next year.

I've won a few races in the Grand-Am Cup, but it feels good to win here in Daytona. There were a lot of cars out there, but as long as I could stay out of trouble and pick my positions, I knew I could give the car to Dave with a chance to win.

I've never seen anything like that before in my life. I don't know how to explain it. That was a guy, very talented, whose heart wanted whatever it took. You just don't see races like that.

I've never ridden him before but I've watched his races and he's a really nice horse with a good turn of foot.

It was two different races for two reasons. Last week's race, some of our kids suffer a little bit, and in the second part of the race we fell apart.

It was almost like a switch had been turned on when he he came into the game against Louisville. It was off to the races after that.

It was almost funny-I was working with a Mazda team and came to meet Mark (Patterson) in March, and he asked me, 'Would you mind doing a couple of Rolex races with me?' 'No, of course I wouldn't mind!' I told him, and I knew exactly what team we should work with.

These candidates truly are the A-Team. Every single one of them are in a position to win their races if given the proper support, which we promise to deliver to them.

These races were about four times bigger than a normal junior Olympic qualifier. The competition was much higher than our typical races, with between 60 and 90 competitors in each age division.

These races are going to be real critical because we've got some very tight races.

These races are a celebration of the great American racing tradition, as are our latest tours. Ride with us, and you'll be paying tribute to that indomitable American spirit.

The Shootout trophies sit right next to my championship trophies, ... My rookie year, I think the only thing we didn't do was win the championship. We won all the big races that year, Gainesville, Englishtown and Indy, and then to close out the year with a win in the Shootout made for a storybook season.

The sport was booming in the 80s and then lost its cutting edge with the younger races when video games took hold. Now the attention has accelerated because of the Olympics, both with the older guys and the next generation of quality riders.

The team has not really had the finishes we are looking for in these last few races together. Each week we have had competitive cars. This weekend, the car was so good that we feel like it could have taken us to victory lane.

The tale is probably over 100 years old and told all around the world. Its theme is common among all races and people -- you have to overcome fear on your own.

The survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection, or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life.

Sometimes you see the talent that a kid doesn't see in himself. Ninety percent is just working out. If kids don't run enough miles, they don't get better. It takes time and discipline and putting in the mileage. After that, the races become the easy part.

Running is something I do a lot of and I've entered a lot of races and I can tell you I've never been around an event that had the spirit that this did.

Saving those many tests (last year) looked good on paper, but to try to take the group you have and run tests and run races and keep cars prepared during the Chase was too much to ask,

Perhaps I have been out of the races for awhile but I have not missed many days off the bike, in the gym, on the trails, etc. I'd go nuts if that were to happen.

Racing has been surprisingly close. The rating system has done a very good job of comparing the boats. We tied a race, which is really rare. Other races have been decided by seconds. You can't get much closer.

Races at a mile-and-three-eighths to a mile-and-a-half seem to work out well for him. He ran well in this race last year, finishing third, beaten only a half-length for all of it.

Races are won and lost in the pits,

Off-year races are used for bragging rights by the party that gains a seat or two, but the truth is, they are only sometimes an indicator of the future.

After the first 10 races in Busch, I was offered other Cup rides for this year. But I felt I didn't know what I was doing yet in Busch.

The NASCAR and Formula One races are every road buff's dream, to be in the midst of all that power and speed. Our tours combine that thrill with the lure of the road, promising many days of great riding between races.

The Olympic Truce will not be eternal. After the games, bad habits will return. But this village is a perfect example of what the truce exemplifies. Here, athletes of different religions, political systems, races and languages live peacefully together.

Once you hit about 56-57, injuries can really slow you, and you need more recovery time. I used to run 30 or more races a year, and now I run 15 or so.

No -- we're still going racing because that's what we're here for -- we've still got eight races left,

Now I'm just really confident that the other races coming up are going to be just as good. It's a great start.

Definitely we wish we had everybody back. There's no doubt that we've lost something. But the people in place did such a good job of training their team that we've been able to move along, win races and still vie for a championship.

Daytona has been good to me the last couple of years. With the tight points races every time I turn a wheel on the track it counts in a big way. Daytona can make or break your season. I feel confident going into the race that we can come out on top.

Depending on how they turn out, you could see a dramatic shift in the experience, temperament and philosophy on the Supreme Court. The candidates in these races offer some very clear choices.

Anybody that races in that first 26 and ends up tied in one of those top 10 positions, they get a shot at it.

(A race you win) is one less race for things to go wrong, ... You can look at it from many different directions, and for us, we wanted to capitalize on the first eight races and after Atlanta we were forced into making sure we didn't have anything go wrong after that. We wanted to attack for as many races as we could, and then you have to play it cool, because you can only go for so long.

An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.

Any of those races that hinge on a real or alleged error could throw us into the same kind of electoral overtime that we first saw in November 2000.

As far as me personally, I guess I'm going to come to the races for as long as I can.

The bottom line is that I have to win races to have a chance to win the championship. Sebastien says he has to be conservative from here on out and not make any mistakes, so we have to be on maximum attack all the time to capitalize on that.

A year like that makes you hungrier. It's not that we should win a championship every year, but we certainly should be in contention to win races on a fairly consistent basis.

As long as we think that the animal races were lower than us and were not a form of civilizations, our minds will always reject to believe a concept of the existence of alien races which far more advanced than human civilization.

That's huge, not only so much monetary-wise. In the breeding shed, that makes tons of difference. ... Those certain races kind of distinguish horses. It's very large.

Alan's a great young rider, he's just nervous. In these races you need somebody with ice water in their veins; Dominguez has ice water in his veins.

Alan has run some of the best races of his career at Hayward Field. He has an appreciation for Hayward Field and the fans return that admiration.

You run those types of races all year long, you find yourself sitting here right in the thick of the Chase.

You need very good reliability and a car that has strength. Many of us are in the same boat this year with new cars and I think this is one of those races where we are not going to be giving up no matter what happens.

You pretty much come into the Pocono races always expecting the unexpected to happen.

This is definitely one of the most competitive races in the country.

This is her dilemma. A lot of the pressures of her constituency point to her taking a very aggressive position on withdrawing from Iraq. But her role as minority leader demands that she pick a position that does not damage the chances of Democrats in races around the country.

This is going to light a fire under them. They need to find that fire, to use this for the races coming up.

This is going to be one of the top races that partisans and analysts will be looking at in the general election.

This is simply staffing up the campaign to serve the needs of the candidate. We're simply adding a team of individuals who have won four statewide races in a row.

This is something we've been looking forward to for many races -- Richmond. We wanted to get a good finish because it has bit us so many times.

This is one of the closest races that we've been in and each game is so important. We've got to come out next weekend and get four points.

This game is 'what have you done for me lately?' in all phases of it. I would say yeah, he probably is a little under the radar. I thought both of his races this year were tremendous races but he hasn't run in six weeks.

They shore up the party base, making sure that the faithful turn out, and they show that they think the races are important, which sometimes they aren't.

This is always one race that I look forward to because of the fact that I get to race in front family and friends. Plus, I've had some really good races there. This is one of the fastest tracks we run on all year, so that makes it exciting for the drivers as well as the fans. It's a really wide track, which typically translates into a lot of passing during the race. Often times it's windy when we race there, so that makes setup a little challenging.

This happens at races sometimes. There was one race where it took nearly a month to get the results. Any time you have a big race like this, there are unpredicatables.

AMA sanctions races in only one place at a time.

A marathon runner can run two races in a year and four over two years.

A lot of this business is chemistry, so why not get a jump start on that and use these last 10 races as a test?

A lot of these tracks will be new for me. But I think it helps that I got in a couple of races last year. I know we have some good equipment, so I hope we can be in the hunt for Rookie or the Year.

A lot of these races are in bigger towns. Merced still has that small town feel and a lot of people really enjoy Merced.

They expect me to contribute to the team. They expect me to be competitive. Obviously we missed the first two races of the season, but we want to go try to win rookie of the year.

There will be a lot of teams here and a lot of runners. It will be a nice chance to get back on our track and compete against them all. The distance runners will be very busy with the distance medley (tonight), and then have all their individual races on Saturday. I expect them to have a lot of success in their races.

There were other races going on in the area, but we wanted to bring one to Hilliard.

There were no bad races today. Everyone learned something and I think we're going to continue to improve.

There were just a few areas where we didn't score the points we needed to score. I thought worst-case scenario (the score) would never get that high. Their guys stepped it up. I give them credit. They swam fast races across the board.

There were a lot of great races and some pretty good competition for us in some events. I felt it was a real nice meet for us and a nice confidence-builder as we are approaching the halfway mark of the season.

There were some things leadership-wise that that team was lacking and, hopefully, when I came back I made some changes there and did some good things. We won some races and had a lot of success.

There isn't any infighting. There are a couple of races that are more dramatic than others but there is no infighting.

There is not one person who leads this group but they stick together. Outside the pool they might not be in the same social group, but the minute they walk into this pool, they're there for each other. You see in the relay races how they bring out the best of each other.

This is the Kentucky Derby of quarter horse racing. This is the biggest one to win and the hardest. It's one of the hardest races to get into and the hardest to win. So many things can happen.

This is why we're all in the game to run in races like this. These guys are sportsmen and this is really what the sport is all about.

They're so ridiculously fast, ... I don't even take out my races that fast. They're tough records.

They're not awed by competition. They go into races with people older and stronger and they're not intimidated. There's no learning curve with them; they were like that in cross-country too. They do not get rattled, they just perform.

There's a shortage of horse flesh. When we opened on Thursday we had a lot of races to fill. The change will help with races filling the following weekend.

There's bound to be one crash a race. I've been in races where there hasn't been a crash. It's not a given, but it's not a shock." ()

There's been a few races where she was in traffic and just pushed her way through. She's not afraid of the other dogs. She hasn't had the best post positions either which makes her performances even more impressive.

There's an old saying about martinis ? one's not enough and three is too many. Races out here, one is not enough and you wonder if two is too many.

There's an absolute enthusiasm for the sports they cover that comes through on the pages of the magazine. I have seen Lois leaning off the back of a motorcycle to get the best possible photo for the magazine, and Bob is out at races once or twice a week enjoying every second of that. When you translate that enthusiasm to the magazine, it makes the magazine successful.

There was a lot of pressure. I wasn't with one of the best Busch teams. When I got in Sterling's car, it had won two races that year. I knew the car was there, the team, the pit crew and everything. I was fortunate.

Atlanta Motor Speedway couldn't come at a better time for our team. We've run three races so far and we've run terribly at two of them. We need Atlanta. We need to come here and run well.

At a time really before our Supreme Court and government made it clear that we would integrate the races in America, Sam Phillips was down in Memphis mixing it up right and left,

All of us were the best racers of the day, I don't feel sad at all. We learn by other races that you never know until you finish. One day it happens to me, the other day it can happen to Lindsey. This is the game.

It's been such a competitive season. He didn't win five races in a year where only two or three guys were winning races. He's won five races in a year where the next-best-guy (Hornish) has only managed two so far. That's very impressive.

It's just one of those cycles, ... We're a championship team, and we've been waiting for the final 10 races to get it together. We have all the tools.

It's kind of cramped in there. It's also pretty hard to steer, but I'm getting better. If I can get good enough, I'll enter the races next year.

It's kinda exciting, ... after you get over the gut ache you have every morning. But everybody's running out of races now. You can't make a mistake because two or three guys might pass you.

It's just his year. Things are going really great for him. Dan's certainly won outright his fair share of races this year, but I think he's also been fortunate along the way as well. It just seems like he's putting one of those championship years together.

It's a tough campaign. You have to train them hard to get them there, and the races are fairly close.

It's awful. These two races are the worst possible combination ? nasty and dull. It doesn't get any worse.

It is reasonable to predict we will see the same below-the-belt tactics used again in the county races next year.

It's a good way to live out his legacy. We're seeing different races working together, trying to help out the community.

It's a dream to win three races in a row. It's much more than I expected.