Stirling Moss Quotes

There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.

If God had meant for us to walk, why did he give us feet that fit car pedals?

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

To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster.

It's hard to drive at the limit, but it's harder to know where the limits are.

Quite frankly, Kimi Raikkonen is the fastest driver in the world

We've got some very strong and robust ladies, but, when your life is at risk, I think the strain of that in a competitive situation will tell when you're trying to win. The mental stress I think would be pretty difficult for a lady to deal with in a practical fashion. I just don't think they have aptitude to win a Formula 1 race.

It is better to go into a corner slow and come out fast, than to go in fast and come out dead.

I love to feel a racing car around me, to feel the way it holds me. I love to make it do all that it was built to do, and then a little bit more.

I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough, and I do believe that. I believe that if I wanted to run a mile is four minutes I could do it. I would have to give up everything else in my life, but I could run a mile in four minutes. I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water and was prepared to give up everything else in life, he could do that.

In order to finish first, you first have to finish.

Motion is tranquility.

Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls.

You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it’s the best state ever.

It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.

The ideal racecar will expire 100 yards past the finish line.

I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water, and was prepared to give up everything in life, he could do it.

The main thing is to be honest with yourself, know and recognize your limits and attain maximum achievement within them. I would for example get more satisfaction from climbing Snowdon, which I know I could, than from attempting Everest, which I couldn't.

Movement is tranquility.

I am not a driver, I am a racer.

I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough . . .

It has taken me thirty three years and a bang on the head to get my values right.