Racing Quotes

Racing has become more show time; we've got to have something new to create interest in the sport.

Racing should never be an ordeal, rather an enjoyable and life-enhancing experience.

There are many different types of prioritites in Motor Racing, the first...being how much you are willing to sacrifice in order to get to where you want to go.

Unless I am very much mistaken...I AM very much mistaken...!

In NASCAR, you don't have to be as physically strong as in some other forms of racing. You've just got to be able to endure the heat and endurance of it.

I just love the American spirit of racing. It feels just great to get involved with that.

Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience.

Boxing is not brutal, it's an art - God has gifted me with incredible handspeed as a tool to be used - what else am I supposed to do but fight? There ain't no hand-racing competitions.

Look up there! That's the sky!

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.

The racing driver needs to be fed a diet of other racing drivers.

You are always racing against the other swimmers, but I always try to just focus on what I'm doing and how I want to swim my races.

The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it.

Money, horse racing and women: three things the boys just can't figure out.

Racing comes easily to me, especially the 100 metres. That is why, no matter how fast I run the run the 100 metres, the 200 will always mean more to me, because of the effort I've put in.

There's enough Ferraris here to eat a plate of spaghetti.

Rally points scoring is twenty for the fastest, eighteen for the second fastest, right down to six points for the slowest fastest.

We drove for the sheer fun of driving because there wasn't that much money to be made.

Just avoid things like racing trains to the crossing, doing cocaine, etc. Develop good mental habits.

I enjoy Saturday night racing.

A horse doesn't know whether the rider on his back wears a dress or pants away from the track.

It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991

The thing I love about off-road racing is the pride in how abusive it is.

For me, the American Dream was to go racing; for others, it's to pursue whatever their goals may be.

When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.

With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits.

I am someone who places great value on the detail. That was always the case, even in my days as a racing driver.

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

What sets these - and all - racers apart from less daredevilish mortals is their complete lack of fear and their joy of doing something on the edge. They love to speed because it is dangerous.

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

Any horse can win on any given day.

Racing is not what I like to do; it's winning.

And there's the man in the green flag!

You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing.

Nothing good has ever been written about the full rotation of a racecar about its roll axis.

When you're in the back of the pack, you can gamble a little bit more.

Owning a racehorse is probably the most expensive way of getting on to a racecourse for nothing.

If I was racing in 2015, no, I wouldn't do it again because I don't think you have to. If you take me back to 1995, when doping was completely pervasive, I would probably do it again.

Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.

That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be.

I didn't have statistics in my mind when I was racing. It was always a consequence - a nice consequence. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't the reason I was racing.

And Damon Hill is following Damon Hill.

Speaking from memory, I don't know how many points Nelson Piquet has.

And there's no damage to the car. Except to the car itself.

I use to think all road racers were nuts. You know racing around a track at that speed.

Before I was an actor I was an apprentice jockey, and now I'm out there racing against boys, sort of the spokesperson for people over 50 that they can do it.

While a man is racing he must hate himself and his competitors.

Nobody is born with a steering wheel or a gear shift in his hand. It's something you choose to do or you don't.

Dating means two things; disillusionment or a racing heart.