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.
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Related He was just motoring, going like 30 mph on the flat. I was really surprised that he didn't get first... MARK PURNELL The speed limit will be 22 miles per hour, day-to-day, and 28 (mph) for corporate outings and go-car... DAN TAYLOR His pitch count is what took him out of the game -- he threw so many pitches that first inning. But,... GUY HANSEN I've been driving race cars professionally for a while: 200 mph types of things. ANTONIO SABATO, JR. This can go 60 mph on flat ground. BOBBY JENKS He said that he saw all clear signals, and that would have allowed him to operate at maximum track s... RICK RADEK The average speed is 35 mph which means that there were a high number of cars going above that. The ... KAREN HENDRIXSON You're missing someone who should be high on the list. Al Lopez knew pitching. He knew when a guy wa... JEROME HOLTZMAN He was rusty. But velocity-wise he was about 91 (mph). He just pitched an inning, but he's out there... JACKIE MOORE He was rusty, ... But velocity-wise he was about 91 (mph). He just pitched an inning, but he's out t... JACKIE MOORE He was in a car going 65 (mph). I was going 50. I think he was full of Jack Daniel's -- had a bad da... TOM LEHMAN Evidently, from what the police were saying... he was doing 70 mph when the cops were chasing him. CHARLES FEDERICO I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His ... PAT GILLICK Early, he was topping out about 84 (mph), throwing BP fastballs. Obviously you can't keep pitching d... ROYCE CLAYTON We hit 228 [mph] at the end of the straightaway and averaged 221 [mph] for that overall lap segment, RUSTY WALLACE We just tried to wait him out until he made some mistakes. In the seventh inning, he made a few [mis... BILL HALL We just tried to wait him out until he made some mistakes. In the seventh inning, he made a few and ... BILL HALL Hymns appropriate to the occasion.
Dentist's Hymn -- "Crown Him with Many Crowns"
TV Weatherman's Hy... UNKNOWN Everybody wants to talk about the hitters being juiced. Nobody even really thinks about the pitchers... LANCE BERKMAN I love full on, like 65 mph in a handicapped parking spot.
DARK JAR TIN ZOO He just didn't handle the track at Hobart but I knew after he worked on Monday morning he was at his... ROSS STITT They used to go through the parking lot at 30 mph, zip around the corner, then be gone. CHRIS JONES I had no clue what to expect. But a car going 50 mph can do a lot of damage. And there are kids gett... LAURIE GLASS You don't need to ride a sport bike like you?re on a track on the street. They're very tractable, th... DALE PARSONS Winds are gusting to 37 mph on Nantucket. And the seas are still looking a little rough out there. B... CHARLIE FOLEY It's absolutely not for speed, but for traction. That's why the chains themselves have a 30 mph spee... TIM WILSON She has a 60-mph fastball, and even the baseball guys have a tough time coming around against her. FRED SOSNOSKI As a hitter, you're just waiting for that first time you get out there against a live arm. You get t... ADAM WITTER Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you ha... CRAIG GROESCHEL We realized Jermaine wasn't going to play with us the rest of the season, and Coach (Al) Gooden talk... DEAUNDRE MUHAMMAD We put a tie on Sam for the party. He took off that night. He came back three days later wearing a T... COADY HAGA We're not going to stick you in a room on closed-circuit TV. We're going to allow you to observe. SAM AMATO Hopefully the 2 mph advantage we have on the speed chart continues the same way in the race. HELIO CASTRONEVES I'm going to introduce you to a revolutionary thought - you can go slower and get there quicker.... JOHN PRESCOTT He spots the ball well and he throws his fastball kind of sneaky [fast]. It gets on you. It only say... JASON BAY Some witnesses said the driver was going about 90 mph when he lost control of his vehicle, hit the m... LOUIS BOLDEN I was a lot calmer and relaxed this time. I didn't feel like everything was going 1,000 mph. It just... JOSH SHARPLESS The first year was a challenge because only a few of us had ever seen a dance line before. We were v... CINDY CLOUGH Remember folks-[Stop] lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph. JIM SAMUELS We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left ... ZAKK WYLDE We chose this location because there's 18 mph wind speed, it's 70 feet deep and 2.5 nautical miles f... LOUIS COAKLEY When I came to America Al Unser, Jr. was very difficult. And Bobby Unser. EMERSON FITTIPALDI It was almost like we were afraid to go after the first pitch because you don't want to make the fir... CARSON KAINER He's ridiculous. He's like Roy Hobbs. I'm waiting for him to come out of the bullpen and start strik... TIM HUDSON They had seen him around during the trip. He was just a local guy in the bar and the casino where al... MARCIA TWITTY That's probably the toughest conditions I've played in with the temperature low and the wind constan... JASON DUFNER The ball is kind of Velcro-ed to her foot whether she's going 90 mph or 10 mph. The one thing about ... STEVE SWANSON The winds were blowing 50 mph and gusting to 70. I hit a par-3 with my hat. CHI CHI RODRIGUEZ There's no excuses for that in my mind. I should still go out there, with a healthy elbow, and get g... SCOTT WILLIAMSON It was a good day for us; track position was so huge and right out there at the end we were running ... CASEY MEARS I'm not making excuses, but I'm glad to be out of that place. It's big. Your depth perception gets t... ADAM DUNN We were supposed to foul, but he pump-faked me and I didn't want to put him on the line for three sh... TRENTON HASSELL We looked out the window and hot in pursuit was the police car going at least 80 mph through the res... JENNIFER MONGER He's a hell of a racer. I'm sure you guys haven't seen the last of me and him going nose-to-nose. BRIAN BROWN We had our first child on June 18, and I kind of thought about that a little, ... It really became h... JASON BOHN We're just going to wait until he basically comes around completely before we come out and tell him,... ANNA MCCLOY All my life, I have been surrounded by the track. The week I was born, Dad took me to training. I do... DANE BIRD-SMITH If there wouldn't have been a 40 mph wind at your back, that doesn't go in. PAT FUELNER (Forecasters are) talking about winds increasing to as high as 100 mph, in gusts and out over the wa... DAVE HENNEN One pitch was low, and it would have been a 3-1 count. Instead, it was a strike. This guy is throwin... JOE CUNNINGHAM 'He's going to make them rip that uniform off his back, he loves it so much. You wonder why someone ... GIL PATTERSON A 22-caliber bullet can travel as fast as 1,022 mph. I learned that at Quantico. However... FRANCIS BAREL Kyle Hendrickson is going to be a great surprise. When he ran the four-by-four and open 800, most ki... GARY HEIDE When you're going 75 to 80 mph and going over 70-foot doubles and you wreck, it hurts. BEN CALLIES I'm higher than most places on this island, but Im not going to take a chance of a 150 mph wind blow... PAT PATTERSON He can set you up with a changeup, then throw an 88-mph fastball by you. JOHNNY DAMON He'll probably be effective, because those guys haven't seen a 68-mph fastball since Little League. PAUL AZINGER I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt abo... DAVID HERBERT DONALD If you don't have a club-head speed of about 100 mph, it's a waste of time to try to hit long irons. DAVID LEADBETTER I thought every pitch I was going to come out of the game, ... I had another 7, 8 mph in the tank I ... JASON SCHMIDT I'd like to have Billy back. He was throwing 100 [mph] in the last game. How many guys do that? But ... JIMMY ROLLINS We have to get our offense on track. We have to get some more points on the board. We knew the first... MARK MALONEY It has been determined that it was not speed-related. (The train) was traveling 46 mph in a 60 mph z... GUS MELONAS I don't think anybody had to tell Al what to do. Al took it on himself. He played like a warrior. I'... JOAKIM NOAH Because of the weight of those trucks, even if he had been going 20 mph, it would have been very dif... CMDR. RASHALL BRACKNEY We were just hanging out in our rooms and there was a knock on the door. When we opened it there was... LIZ BOWDEN I've only seen two of his fights, and it was hard to get a feel for him because he had his man on th... JAKE SHIELDS We are talking about an economy averaging about 30 miles per hour in a 60-mph speed zone. That keeps... JOE ABATE It's a big ballpark. He took a little off down over the plate, and I really got great extension on t... MIKE PIAZZA We think it'll be moving about 20 to 25 mph by the time it hits Florida, ED RAPPAPORT It was such a beautiful day. The 18 athletes who went had a great experience, since we hadn't seen a... GARY HEIDE Everybody is a champion! Everybody has conquered something in life before! You have achieved somethi... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I knew I didn't want to be stuck in Stoke Newington for the rest of my life, hanging about with ... ERIC BRISTOW We were all curious how it was going to hold up playing fast. With the wind supposed to blow 20 mph ... TIGER WOODS Training hard was not just going to the track at 3:30 and running hard. It was going to bed at the r... A.J. ELLISON We like for him to start around the block and work his way out. That is what he did in the first hal... JAY MELTON This will be my first time running the long course. So there will be a learning curve running a DP f... PATRICK LONG Thing about life is you only need to understand your choices. The rest should be drowned out with a ... SHANE J VAN DER VELDE He had to have been a lonely guy. He gave up his whole life for his career, ... When he was on the r... STEVE ALLEN He landed wrong out of bounds, hit his head and saw stars. To be on the safe side, we took him out f... JARED ESALA The problems he had were in the outfield. When you first saw him out there, 'How is he ever going to... HARMON KILLEBREW Besides the huge first serve, he's actually improved his service games. Last year, he finished sixth... DEAN GOLDFINE I should have asked, I guess,” he says. “I shouldn’t have assumed.” “What?” He... RICK YANCEY What I don’t understand,’ Geoff says, ‘is why did the first fish, like the one who started lan... PAUL MURRAY Las Vegas is kind of like a home track for me because it's near California, where I live. Although w... CRUZ PEDREGON He's touching 98 (mph) in the first inning and didn't really back off at all. Great job. MARTY BROWN I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories ... DARYL HALL You don't know what you're going to get, but we got a nice day. Monday, it was blowing 30-40 mph her... BILLY MAYFAIR Ace is very reclusive. That was really one of the first tracks that I did for the album. I met Ace b... KATHY VALENTINE Ace is very reclusive. That was really one of the first tracks that I did for the album. I met Ace b... KATHY VALENTINE
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