Speed Record Quotes

I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill.

Just under 10 seconds for Nigel Mansell. Call it 9.5 seconds in round numbers.

And he's done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures.

The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.

I went 59.9 sec. when I was 18 and thought, 'Hmm, that was fast - let's see how much faster we can go and what the rest of the world can do to keep up.'

The idea for the 'Speed' series was to break the record for the fastest push bike.

Certainly, I want to be the first through the sound barrier in a car.

To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished.

I took Al Unser out on a Hobie the day before he became the first auto racer to go 200 mph around a closed-circuit track. We were only going about 18 mph, and you should have seen him hanging on for dear life.

I'm really happy to have set the world record for the fastest disabled woman, but I think I can go much faster.

So, tell me,” he whispers. “How fast did you climb those fourteen stories?” Thomas makes a disapproving sound in his throat, but I break into a grin. Storm’s past. Metias loves me again. “Six minutes,” I whisper back to my brother. “And forty-four seconds. How do you like that?” “That must be some sort of record. Not that, you know, you’re supposed to do it.

To hit 100 miles per hour, that's something. I couldn't believe it when I first saw it, but it's something I can do and think about.

I am still the fastest man on earth.

He moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk.