Racing Quotes

A racing horse is not like a machine. It has to be tuned up like a racing car.

Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.

Racing does to white guys what movies do to black guys.

A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.

Racing is in my blood, I can't quite get out of it yet.

Again, racing for me was about energy management.

I should be doing that too. I should be out there running and racing. I should be taking care of my body.

Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.

I saw Lotus F1 racing as the best choice for me to progress my career, after considering several other options that were available to me.

The business model of racing is not a pretty one.

My mind is always racing.

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison

Ski racing is not about how much you weigh. If weight was the key, everybody would be sucking down food.

I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one, but sometimes it's not so bad.

Road racing is rock 'n roll; track is Carnegie Hall.

CART is one of the safest racing series in the world.

If CART continues on, it's just going to drag all of open-wheel racing down.

Your perception of racing needs to be fine-tuned

Air racing may not be better than your wedding night, but it's better than the second night.

And this is the third place car about to lap the second place car.

The tires are called wets, because they're used in the wet. And these tires are called slicks, because they're very slick.

A mediocre season for Nelson Piquet as he is now known and always has been.

Frentzen is taking, er, reducing that gap between himself and Frentzen.

The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.

Through F1, I bought my own boat. I learned to fly my own plane and helicopter. And my job with my company is a reflection of everything motor racing taught me.

In racing, the fastest person wins. It is very simple.

I suddenly realized I was racing around so much, I could never catch up with my life

A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic.

I started racing go karts when I was six. I just loved everything about racing. I was raised in a racing family. And I always wanted to race for a living at the highest level I could.

My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.

I really don't like to act. At the beginning, back in '51, I had to force myself to stick with it. I was real uncomfortable, real uncomfortable.

I had to go off the circuit twice to avoid him. I don't know what Rene Arnoux is doing in Formula One racing. He should be on the beach.

Racing is not football or baseball or basketball where you can do it yourself. If you're good in high school, you just shine. (But in racing) you have to have a family behind you.

Legalize racing in every State. Sure people will bet, but they get to see the horses run and you certain can't see General Motors and General Electric and General Utility run when you bet on them.

People get excited around me and behave differently than they would normally. I don't feel different from anyone else, except that I drive a racing car round in circles faster than somebody else.

There's Pam watching anxiously. She doesn't look anxious though.

I can't wait to be racing through the streets of Chicago. As a notoriously fast course, I am out there to run a PR and compete with some of the world's best until the very end.

Every fight is do or die for me. I've come too far to start over. I'm on a destiny trip right now. I'm racing towards that heavyweight world championship.

My son is racing his first 24-hour this year with Porsche.

Sailboat racing becomes a game of chance only when you are not prepared

My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art.

Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between the partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death.

Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep.

Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.

We have been involved in racing for so long, it is astonishing we were not born with hooves.

The Andromeda strain is a killer disease that they've got to prevent from spreading to being 100 percent contagious. It's another one where we're racing to save humanity.

The builder of the best racing car is not necessarily its best driver.

I know I've made huge gains in my confidence, and knowing more about my racing and myself as a person. That has made me a better athlete

Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that's really what it feels like.

I'm happier than I've ever been in life. Happy with my life outside of racing. Really happy with my life inside the garage.