Animal Speed Quotes

Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest.

We all are limited in that none of us can fly and none of us can run faster than some animals, but we figure out a way to go to Tokyo if we have to, right? Or we run faster than an animal with a race car.

If you run from a bear, it'll chase you. And they can run fast.

If you come to think of it, you never see deer, dogs and rabbits worrying about their menus and yet they run much faster than humans.

I could run like a gazelle, couldn't I?

I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.

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

If you think penguins are fat and waddle, you have never been attacked by one running at you in excess of 100 miles per hour.