1.
If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver.
Ayrton Senna
If you cease to seize the opportunity presented, you are no longer a competitive racer.
2.
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.
Ayrton Senna
3.
Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.
Colin McRae
'A flat road is for swift vehicles, curves are for skilled motorists.'
4.
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.
Lewis Hamilton
"In auto racing there are always teachings to be had, everyday. There is never an ending to betterment, and I think that can be said for anything in existence."
5.
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.
John Hurt
6.
Any car which holds together for a whole race is too heavy.
Colin Chapman
7.
It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance.
Jackie Stewart
8.
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.
Juan Manuel Fangio
9.
Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.
Enzo Ferrari
10.
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.
Evel Knievel
11.
It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.
Vin Diesel
12.
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.
Smokey Yunick
14.
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.
Louis Zamperini
15.
Pure driving, pure racing, that´s what makes me happy.
Ayrton Senna
16.
Cornering perfectly is like bringing a woman to climax.
Jackie Stewart
17.
Jean Todt's system will never succeed, not even with Michael Schumacher.
Niki Lauda
19.
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
Mario Andretti
20.
You won't catch me driving a race car that I have built.
Colin Chapman
21.
The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.
Davy Jones
23.
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.
Kara Goucher
24.
Oh yes. It's not when you brake but when you take them off that counts. Most people don't understand that.
Jackie Stewart
26.
Once you've raced, you never forget it...and you never get over it.
Richard Childress
27.
I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.
Enzo Ferrari
28.
I am not motivated by recognition, I just do things I like doing - racing, shagging, eating and drinking.
David Coulthard
29.
The best classroom of all times was about two car lengths behind Juan Manuel Fangio.
Stirling Moss
30.
Racing is life. Everything else is just waiting.
Steve McQueen
31.
I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.
Valentino Rossi
32.
Alcohol is for drinking, gas is for cleaning parts, and nitro is for racing!
Don Garlits
33.
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.
Lindsey Vonn
34.
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.
Dale Earnhardt
35.
Racing drivers have balls, unfortunantly, none of them are crystal
David Coulthard
36.
The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.
Emerson Fittipaldi
38.
Your luck goes up and down like swings and roundabouts
James Hunt
39.
Racing is dangerous, but I've been in a lot worse situations as a pipe fitter.
Neil Bonnett
40.
Tears streamed down my face as I crossed the finish line. I was a new person, a runner.
Thomas King
41.
There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile.
Richard Petty
42.
We broke something, I think it was traction.
Carl Edwards
43.
The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.
Enzo Ferrari
44.
I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing.
Mark Webber
45.
IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards.
Murray Walker
47.
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.
Nancy Anderson
49.
There is no average reason for a person getting involved in racing.
Bruce McLaren
50.
Why did I take up racing? I was too lazy to work and too chicken to steal
Kyle Petty