Racing Quotes

If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver.

As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.

In racing there are always things you can learn, every single day. There is always space for improvement, and I think that applies to everything in life.

We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.

Any car which holds together for a whole race is too heavy.

It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance.

I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.

Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.

If I'm out trailriding, I have a favorite motorcycle. Riding on the road, I've got a favorite. If I'm jumping, I have a favorite, and if I'm racing, I have a favorite.

It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.

As far as cheating goes, they'll never stop it. The only way it can be done successfully, only one person can know about it.

Boogity, boogity boogity! Let’s go racing boys!

Pain is that last quarter of a mile. You feel it, but when you’re through racing, your whole body just feels elated. So the pain is worth it.

Pure driving, pure racing, that´s what makes me happy.

Cornering perfectly is like bringing a woman to climax.

Jean Todt's system will never succeed, not even with Michael Schumacher.

The older I get, the faster I was.

If you don't come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you're not trying hard enough

You won't catch me driving a race car that I have built.

The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.

Mansell can see him in his earphone.

Oh yes. It's not when you brake but when you take them off that counts. Most people don't understand that.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

That's the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to see how wonderful your life it.

I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.

Once you've raced, you never forget it...and you never get over it.

Racing is life. Everything else is just waiting.

I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.

Alcohol is for drinking, gas is for cleaning parts, and nitro is for racing!

I am not motivated by recognition, I just do things I like doing - racing, shagging, eating and drinking.

The best classroom of all times was about two car lengths behind Juan Manuel Fangio.

I want to keep pushing the limits to see what’s possible. That’s the nice thing about ski racing - no one is stopping you from going faster.

When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.

Racing drivers have balls, unfortunantly, none of them are crystal

The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.

Why is your heart racing Tris?

Your luck goes up and down like swings and roundabouts

Racing is dangerous, but I've been in a lot worse situations as a pipe fitter.

Tears streamed down my face as I crossed the finish line. I was a new person, a runner.

The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.

There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile.

We broke something, I think it was traction.

I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing.

IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards.

Mr. Bentley - He builds fast trucks.

So much in life seems inflexible and unchangeable, and part of the joy of running and especially racing is the realization that improvement and progress can be achieved.

But my passion is racing cars. It's what I like to do in my off time.

There is no average reason for a person getting involved in racing.

Racing is the constant search for the weakest link.