Racing Quotes

Racing Quote of the day

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.

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

The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race.

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

What's behind you doesn't matter.

Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines.

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.

The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose.

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts.

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.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.

There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.

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 is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.

If you're in control, you're not going fast enough.

When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.

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!

I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car.

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

Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built.

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.

Cornering perfectly is like bringing a woman to climax.

The older I get, the faster I was.

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

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.

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

Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him

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.

I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.

Mansell can see him in his earphone.

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.

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

I don't know driving in another way which isn't risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other's.

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

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

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

Racing is life. Everything else is just waiting.