“You don’t have to run faster than the bear to get away. You just have to run faster than the guy next to you.”
“As the joke goes, you don’t have to be faster than the wolf chasing you, just faster than everyone else running away.”
“You cannot run faster than a bullet”
“This means that I don't have to run faster than the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal, I just have to run faster than whoever is with me when the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal starts chasing us.”
“Every morning the gazelle wakes up knowing she must run faster than the lion or will be dead. Every morning the lion wakes up knowing he must run faster than the gazelle or he'll starve. It doesn't matter if you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun rises you better start to run.”
“You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.”