Racing Quotes

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.

Racing is life. Everything else is just waiting.

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

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.

If I have a love-hate relationship with Martinsville, then we're missing the love part of the equation.

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

When I did some NASKAR races this year I noticed that I was increasingly missing the racing side - to race against each other - because in rallying you really race against the clock.

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.

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

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

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

Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track, and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey, and you go to jail.

Your luck goes up and down like swings and roundabouts

Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it's all about.

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

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

I can't even find the perfect brush so I can paint what's going through my mind. Racing 'gainst myself but I'm a couple steps behind.

We broke something, I think it was traction.

The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.

When I started racing my father told me, 'Cristiano, nobody has three balls but some people have two very good ones.'

It's basically the same, just darker.

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

Mr. Bentley - He builds fast trucks.

I am still here because I like to prove myself. I still like to ride the bike on track and enjoy the races. I still have good reasons to be in racing after so many years.

You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again.

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

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.

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

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

Why did I take up racing? I was too lazy to work and too chicken to steal

Racing is the constant search for the weakest link.

I love cycling. I am going to keep racing as hard as I can until this body doesn't allow me to any more.

But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn't racing. Life is the metaphor for the race.

When I believe in something, I fight like hell for it.

You can't make a racehorse out of a pig. But if you work hard enough at it you can make a mighty fast pig.

My mind is always racing, and always going and always working, and it's a gift and a curse.

This would have been Senna's third win a row if he'd won the two before

Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion.

Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a racist?

It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on

Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than others.

Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.

Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.

If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.

You know I have about the same interest in jewelry as I have in politics, horse racing, modern poetry, and women who need weird excitement – none.

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.

In any racing engine, the nearer you are to it disintegrating, the better it's performance will be

I believe if you are doing something like competing, like motor racing, you either do well or forget it.