Mph Quotations

Remember folks stop lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.

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.

To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.

How many times have you been on the freeway and had someone fly by you at 100 mph then end up two cars ahead of you at the off ramp? What's the point?

It's not fun facing a ball going 97 mph, trust me.

A motorcycle coming down from 30 feet at 70 mph gives you a terrible jolt.

I guess I thought I was Elvis Presley but I'll tell ya something. All Elvis did was stand on a stage and play a guitar. He never fell off on that pavement at no 80 mph.

When I hit that pavement at 70 or 80 mph those suits just ripped.

One pitch was low, and it would have been a 3-1 count. Instead, it was a strike. This guy is throwing 98 mph and changing speeds on him. And he battled and smoked that ball off the right-field wall.

None of us is anticipating anything significant, but it is his shoulder. It's hard to believe that somebody can throw 98 mph and have a serious arm problem. He hasn't been to Mark with any complaints at all since he went to the bullpen.

Poise? I don't think we're talking about poise here. I think we're talking about a 97 mph fastball with a curveball from hell.

If there wouldn't have been a 40 mph wind at your back, that doesn't go in.

Sixty-five is OK, but we have states in this region - West Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia - that have a 70 mph speed limit. There's no reason we can't transition (to that).

When someone is in a car accident and they're driving at 100 mph, drunk, who's tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.

When they tell you not to go outside and to evacuate, people don't realize that your life is in your hands. When you can see the winds actually pick up a car, you can understand how strong those 145 mph winds are.

If Buck sees him throwing 84 mph on March 6, he's going to have a heart attack. It's an issue, but people have to deal with it. There are going to be pitchers who are notorious for not getting going until right at the end of spring training. Guys aren't going to be locked and loaded; that's almost a guarantee.

I don't think we're talking about poise here. I think we're talking about a 97 mph fastball and a curveball from hell.

He's a guy that had arm trouble early in his career, but he's recovered from that nicely. He throws 89-92 mph with downhill sink, attacks the zone and gets groundballs. He has a slider and changeup that he throws for a change of pace, but it's that fastball with the downhill plane that makes him successful.

We sustained hurricane winds of about 100 to 120 mph for about a nine-hour period, so we have thousands of trees down within our city,

He was just a toothache, ... He's got one speed, pedal to the medal. He's 90 mph all the time.

He could be a lot like Scott Eyre, ... He has the same type of breaking ball, a 92 to 93 mph fastball. You don't see too many bullpen guys like that.

He was driving at a safe speed for the conditions, doing approximately 10 mph below the posted speed limit. He wasn't under the influence or anything like that. It appears that the driver didn't do anything wrong.

If the sun is just beating down on you, there is no strategy. You just go 55 mph and zoom. It's not that glamorous, but we're putting along at 20 mph and speeding down the hills to get ahead.

He has to learn that a 95 mph pitch in the middle of the plate is not a good pitch.

He was throwing 95 mph sinkers running four, five feet, ... I don't know how he's doing it.

He was throwing 95 mph sinkers running four, five feet. I don't know how he's doing it.

I'm a proud graduate of the Richard Petty Driving Experience, ... They wouldn't let me go any faster than 140 mph and I didn't particularly like that, but what a thrill to be able to participate in something like that.

Hockey is the original extreme sport. These guys are flying down the ice on steel blades going 30 mph and slapping pucks 100 mph.

His talent speaks for itself he throws 100 mph and has a great slider.

His serve is a joke. Sometimes it doesn't matter how you return. He can ace you out of a game. If he's hitting his spots, serving at 140 mph from that angle, there's not much you can do except say 'good serve' and move on and not get frustrated. I have to focus on holding serve like I did today.

He gave him a 96 mph fastball. In his last at-bat, it was a 41-year-old playing a day game after a night game. That was an awesome pitch. It was not easy. But Barry knows how to swing like that on a fastball.

He doesn't give you many mistakes to hit. It was just command. He was not throwing 95 mph at you. It was just pinpoint control.

He had a good fastball, actually added a couple of mph to his fastball.

Mario's been the missing link. I wouldn't be surprised if he hit 90 or 91 mph (on his fastball Saturday). The way he was pitching, he could've beaten anyone.

Some guys hit speeds of 50 mph on that road. But you took a hard right and had to scrub your speed. Everybody who was on a downhill bike lost their times on that section.

I saw a couple of players down below (in the stadium) who were talking about Oswalt during the game, and they said, 'My god, he is throwing a ball that looks like it's coming at 110 mph and rising when it gets to the plate,'

(Pierre's grounder) hit right off the end of my glove. You don't expect him to smoke one down the line, especially off a 94 mph fastball.

People need to realize, and I know they won't, that there was 45 mph winds out there, and it was tough, ... A lot of those plays were not (Tommy's) fault. The wind was knocking the balls down. There was no way he should have got the criticism he did.

I'm higher than most places on this island, but Im not going to take a chance of a 150 mph wind blowing through here.

I still want to give him the benefit of the doubt. He went from seeing 80-mph fastballs in high school to 90 mph last year.

It has been determined that it was not speed-related. (The train) was traveling 46 mph in a 60 mph zone.

I thought every pitch I was going to come out of the game, ... I had another 7, 8 mph in the tank I couldn't go to, and that was disappointing. Somehow I found a way to get through five innings.

I thought the driver must have been unconscious and that we certainly were going to die. You have to remember on these bobsleds, there's no suspension and it's a steel frame mounted to a steel axle. When you start approaching speeds of 90 mph you can feel every vibration. It's like some someone pushes a piano on you and pushes you to the bottom of the sled. You go up to the top and you see your buddies doing it over and over again, so you want to continue to do it. As you do it, it gets less scary and more exciting and then you start searching for the speed.

I thought the guys ran really well considering it was pouring rain and there was a 30 mph wind.

We had one make a direct strike, in 1821. We believe, by all records, it was a Category 3, with 112 mph sustained winds. It looks like it came ashore in Cape May, essentially following the current path of the Garden State Parkway. It devastated the state and Philadelphia.

We were going 5 mph up a mountain.

Winds are gusting to 37 mph on Nantucket. And the seas are still looking a little rough out there. But we don't anticipate significant effects.

That was the argument for the universal 55 mph speed limit during the gas shortages of the '70s.

Chuck Norris has been known to throw a baseball 100 mph. I've been known to throw Chuck Norris 100 mph.

This storm should be taken seriously because it is moving so slowly, ... Whether it has 80 mph wind or 85 (mph) is not really important. What's important here is that you're going to get two days of it. That is what makes it so dangerous because it brings rain, it brings flooding.

When you're sliding at 70-80 mph down the track, you definitely want to be honest with one another, admit mistakes. Sometimes you have to swallow your pride. It's really that communication that's kept us together and had us going fast.

We played about five holes with no wind, and then it started blowing. We played pretty much the whole back side with at least a 10-15 mph wind. It plays tricky. We just don't know the golf course well enough yet.

We were all curious how it was going to hold up playing fast. With the wind supposed to blow 20 mph tomorrow, it might make things a little interesting.

I've become better at the net. I've got a 135 mph serve so I'd be stupid not to follow that in. Overall I'm a better player than I was last year.

I was throwing a lot harder than I ever have at the end of last year. I got to ninety-five (mph) a couple of times in the World Series and I'm more of an eighty-eight or eighty-nine guy who relies on location and movement.

There's no bigger surprise than to be tooling along at 200 MPH and suddenly get hit from the rear

With the winds we have today (30-35 mph in Boulder County), you could have fires that could outrace fire trucks trying to chase it. You could have fires that move so fast, you can't get out of the way on time. You could start not just losing a home, but home after home after home.

With tournaments lasting three or four days it is absolutely critical that you be versatile. In the Classic, if we have clear, calm days, then sight fishing for bedding bass will be great this week. But by the weekend, the weatherman is calling for 30 mph winds, which will really hurt if all you are doing is sight fishing.

I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.

You don't know what you're going to get, but we got a nice day. Monday, it was blowing 30-40 mph here. You get one of those days in the next couple days, and the guys playing here are going to be at a big disadvantage.

There is no possibility the defendant was traveling 30 mph down that road, ... That takes a tremendous amount of force.

With the speed and power of Monday's game, and with 150 mph serves and 100 mph backhands, we need an officiating aid.

Scientists tell us that the fastest animal in the world, with a speed of 120 mph, is a cow dropped out of a helicopter.

What people don't realize is that these cars carry up to 120 mph speeds. The laws of physics say the parts keep going when the car hits something.

Every five miles over 60 mph is like adding a dime to the cost of a gallon of gas.

I've been driving race cars professionally for a while: 200 mph types of things.

The winds were blowing 50 mph and gusting to 70. I hit a par-3 with my hat.

We see people on the roadways talking on the phone, checking their stocks, checking scores, fussing with their MP3 players, reading e-mails, all while driving 40, 50, 60, 70 mph and sometimes even faster.

When you get up into winds in excess of 155 mph you have enough damage,

When you go from facing 84 - 86 mph fastballs in Florida, to guys, to put it nicely, throwing slow, it really tests your patience at the plate.

When you have winds from 80 to 100 mph it can do damage similar to that of a tornado. That can do some very, very big damage.

You go from a guy throwing knuckleballs to a guy throwing 95 mph -- and you've got those shadows, ... To a man, everyone that came back after the seventh inning was saying they can't see the ball. It was tough.

Besides the huge first serve, he's actually improved his service games. Last year, he finished sixth in first-serve percentage, which is unheard-of for a guy with that big a serve. Andy did a much better job of mixing his first serve, not always trying to hit the 140 or 150 mph serve. He can do so much with it, in terms of the kick serve, moving it around a little bit more. ... It's going to help him get a higher percentage of first serves in, and it's going to be tougher for guys to break him.

Actually, we want them all to throw 100 mph on the first day. We want to teach them how to throw from both sides, too. I think that would help the team, a bunch of ambidextrous pitchers.

Firefighters are really going to have to keep their heads up because with a 20 to 30 mph breeze it's going to push that fire and just feed oxygen to that fire.

You're trying harder and harder, when less is more, really. I kept telling him that. The harder you try, the more you're 'amped up' and flexed, which takes away from your athletic ability. Now, he realizes he doesn't have to throw over 90 mph for his changeup to be effective.

That was a big day at the plate for us. The wind was blowing about 35 mph but we had a lot of line drives. I've never seen anything like it.

They say a 10 mph wind can have about a 2-inch effect on a 10-foot putt. That makes it really difficult, since you have to read the green and read the wind.

There's one thing that we've had success doing, and that's keeping (the Suns) out of their running game, their full-out, 60 mph running game that is difficult for us to keep up, difficult for the whole league to keep up with.

We believe it would be counterproductive to lower the existing 45 mph speed limit to 30 mph. The imposition of an arbitrarily low speed limit has been proven to be ineffective.

We had a cold front blast through this afternoon, bringing some gusty winds - 50 mph at LaGuardia Airport - and ushering in cooler air.

This can go 60 mph on flat ground.

This is a big deal. It can get 55 to 60 mph easily.

You're doing 80 and 90 mph sometimes, and that's unfortunately part of the sport. They happen, and 90 percent of the time there's no injuries or no serious injuries.

I had no clue what to expect. But a car going 50 mph can do a lot of damage. And there are kids getting behind a 50 mph moving ball regularly.

The average speed is 35 mph which means that there were a high number of cars going above that. The chances of surviving if you get hit by a car at 25 mph are far higher than if you get hit by a car at 35 mph.

The ball is kind of Velcro-ed to her foot whether she's going 90 mph or 10 mph. The one thing about Jess that's so unusual is she can create things on her own. She's unusual because you don't really see somebody who is able to slice, dice and dash and take players apart individually.

The airline business is moving at 100 mph right now. It just makes sense to get the things we might need in place right now so we can react if and when the time comes.

Anytime you get hit by a 95 mph fastball, it's going to hurt for 12 hours.

Hopefully the 2 mph advantage we have on the speed chart continues the same way in the race.

How can you not be attracted to this sport? It's a hair-trigger sport where one sneeze at 230 mph gets you in trouble.

They were all built from 1920 to yesterday, and you can only assume that most of the buildings were built in compliance with the Florida building code. Most were built to withstand 100 mph winds.

Some witnesses said the driver was going about 90 mph when he lost control of his vehicle, hit the median and flipped the vehicle several times before crashing into a car in the northbound lanes.

The guy can rush it up there. He is a big guy with a 93-94 mph fastball, and a change-up that has no bottom to it.

The home run was a mistake pitch, definitely. You can't blow a 78 mph fastball by a hitter the caliber of Matt Holliday.

It's the third time this week he's pitched. I don't think I could coach 50 years and be prouder of a kid that him. He's missing 5 MPH off his fast ball tonight, but he basically got through three innings on sheer heart.

It's three flips and five twists. You're going 45 mph and you're about 55 feet in the air. You flip once and make one twist. You flip again and make three twists. Then you flip a third time and make one twist.

That's probably the toughest conditions I've played in with the temperature low and the wind constantly blowing at about 20 mph and gusting up to 30 mph.

They finally all played well. It was 20-25 mph winds and it was 48 degrees when it started. But the team played well and persevered.

They (drivers) are getting faster, up to 45 mph at times. People are complaining. It's hard enough to cross the street. If it is this bad now, what will it be like by the summer?