Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games. — Ernest Hemingway
You don't race cars, you race the rule book — Smokey Yunick
Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built. — Henry Ford
I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car. — Nigel Mansell
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. — Ayrton Senna
To hell with safety. All I want to do is race. — James Hunt
Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along. — Caroll Shelby
A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments. — Mario Andretti
I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same. — Valentino Rossi
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. — PattiSue Plumer
Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too. — Janet Guthrie
I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I've finished a movie but don't tell anyone. — Eric Bana
A race track is a place where windows clean people. — Danny Thomas
I've been in motorsport my whole life since I was eight years of age. — Nigel Mansell
Short Auto Racing Quotes
I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars. — Enzo Ferrari
Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion. — Murray Walker
Racing is the constant search for the weakest link. — Duane Bailey
I am focused on racing. I enjoy it. It's a great feeling to be back fighting for the title. — Valentino Rossi
In racing, I wanted to be a winner and to be a winner, you have to be willing to roll the dice. — Bobby Rahal
Running an airline is a normal job. Racing is more. — Niki Lauda
Once you've raced, you never forget it...and you never get over it. — Richard Childress
When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough. — Ayrton Senna
The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other. — Christopher McDougall
You won't catch me driving a race car that I have built. — Colin Chapman
Auto Racing Image Quotes
Running away from your problems is a race you'll never win.
Car Racing Quotes
Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers. — Colin McRae
Race cars are neither beautiful nor ugly. They become beautiful when they win. — Enzo Ferrari
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.
Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you. — Jeremy Clarkson
The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose. — Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts. — Ferdinand Porsche
Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance. — Jackie Stewart
Driving fast on the track does not scare me. What scares me is when I drive on the highway I get passed by some idiot who thinks he is Fangio. — Juan Manuel Fangio
If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower. — Mark Donohue
Race is only relevant when it will heighten racial tensions, so ABC doesn’t mention that the driver was black. They do, however, give you the critical detail that it was a luxury car. — Dave Smith
Motor Racing Quotes
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. — Ernest Hemingway
When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast. — Alain Prost
Mansell can see him in his earphone. — Murray Walker
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him — Murray Walker
Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog. — Damon Hill
Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death. — Hunter S. Thompson
Your luck goes up and down like swings and roundabouts — James Hunt
I believe if you are doing something like competing, like motor racing, you either do well or forget it. — Ayrton Senna
Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than others. — Ayrton Senna
Race Car Quotes
If I wanted to learn how to race a speed car, I'm not going to go and race with Formula One drivers. I'm going to go to a beginner's class. — Jay Shetty
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. — Smokey Yunick
If you're in control, you're not going fast enough. — Parnelli Jones
It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down. — Mario Andretti
The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes. — Emerson Fittipaldi
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 — Mario Andretti
Turbochargers are for people who cant build engines. — Keith Duckworth
Oh yes. It's not when you brake but when you take them off that counts. Most people don't understand that. — Jackie Stewart
Motorsport Quotes
You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are. — Juan Manuel Fangio
You live more in five minutes on a bike like this going flat out than some people live in a lifetime. — Burt Munro
My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike. — Jacky Ickx
You want to climb the mountain because it’s there and you know you can do it. — Alex Zanardi
I'm kind of quiet but when I put my helmet on, it's like you flip a switch. I'm ready to go. — Martin Truex Jr.
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. — Junior Johnson
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. — Joey Dunlop
No, it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end of the straightaway in high gear. Too much power is never enough. — Mark Donohue
Aerodynamics is for those who cannot manufacture good engines. — Enzo Ferrari
Linguistics is a good way of defining the culture of a brand. The vocabulary used by sports and lifestyle brands - running, fitness, training, motorsports - is all about functionality, whereas the vocabulary of the luxury business - handbags, ready-to-wear - is all about the product. — Francois-Henri Pinault
Nascar Racing Quotes
If I have a love-hate relationship with Martinsville, then we're missing the love part of the equation. — Tony Stewart
It's basically the same, just darker. — Alan Kulwicki
Why did I take up racing? I was too lazy to work and too chicken to steal — Kyle Petty
I wish they would pass a law where all Democrats and Republicans had to wear NASCAR racing suits, because if you look at the NASCAR drivers, it tells who their sponsors are. And if they do that, we could then become informed voters, because we would know who owns them. — Jesse Ventura
If you don't cheat, you look like an idiot; if you cheat and don't get caught, you look like a hero; if you cheat and get caught, you look like a dope. Put me where I belong. — Darrell Waltrip
Like NASCAR race drivers or PGA golfers, why not require each of the [US presidential] candidates to cover their clothing, briefcases and staff with the logo patches of their corporate sponsors? — Jim Hightower
The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses. — Mario Andretti
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. — Jeff Gordon
It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991 — Alan Kulwicki
Kyle Busch has got to be the loneliest NASCAR driver ever. He's led so many laps he never sees anybody in front of him for two-thirds of the race. He just sees clean racetrack...He's the Maytag guy. — Kyle
Race Car Driver Quotes
The best classroom of all times was about two car lengths behind Juan Manuel Fangio. — Stirling Moss
I think fear is what keeps us from going over the edge. I mean, as a race car driver, I don't think what makes a good race car driver is a fearless person. I think it's somebody that is comfortable being behind the wheel of something that's somewhat out of control. — Jeff Gordon
I am a racer. I'm not a race car driver. I am a racer. I race. That's what I do. I don't go on vacations. I don't take my family on vacations because I don't have a family. My family is the racing family. — Tony Stewart
The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand. — Juan Manuel Fangio
Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out. — David Alan Grier
Let me ask you. If someone called you and offered you a ride in the Indianapolis 500 and you were a male race car driver, would you turn the ride down? — Janet Guthrie
To be a driver that can cross off one of those marquee events as a winner, that cements your legacy in motorsports, to be able to win the Daytona 500 is the ultimate dream of a race car driver. — Tony Stewart
The secret of the creative life is how to feel at ease with your own embarrassment. We're all in the dirty laundry business and we're being paid to take risks and look silly. Race car drivers get paid to risk their lives in a more concrete way; we get paid to risk our lives in an emotional way. — Paul Schrader
I feel safe when I'm on the racetrack, I really do. I know that I'm surrounded by the best drivers in the world. That's something you can't say when you're driving down the interstate. — Sterling Marlin
Nascar Quotes
I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners. — Mitt Romney
Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors. — Caroline Baum
When a car's ahead of you, as long as you can see it, you get a tow, just like the draft in NASCAR. Even if it's a long ways down the track, it punches a hole in the air that has to help. When you're running alone, you can feel the difference, and it shows on the clock, too. — Mario Andretti
I have a lot to learn about NASCAR. But I've learned if you have the right people in the right places doing the right things, you can be successful at whatever you do. — Roger Staubach
There are some people who watch NASCAR for the highly skilled driving - but most people watch it for the crashes. — John Oliver
Nascar will certainly not be one of my challenges in the future. — Michael Schumacher
I wish Michael Schumacher would come try NASCAR. That'd be cool. With everything he's done and how professional he's remained through it all, I think he's an awesome role model as far as work ethic and tenacity. He just seems like he knows how to get it done. — Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
I didn't understand NASCAR until I met some NASCAR fans. You talk to a couple of NASCAR fans and you'll see where a shiny car driving in a circle would fascinate them all day. And I can make fun of NASCAR fans, because if they chase me, I just turn right. — Alonzo Bodden
Racing Driver Quotes
If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver. — Ayrton Senna
As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high. — Ayrton Senna
You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood. — Ayrton Senna
Racing drivers have balls, unfortunantly, none of them are crystal — David Coulthard
The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended. — Enzo Ferrari
Ukyo Katayama is undoubtedly the best Formula One driver that Grand Prix racing has ever produced — Murray Walker
If you are a straightforward racing driver you should always see your limits. You have to be objective and not come up with any bullshit. — Niki Lauda
By being a racing driver means you are racing with other people. And if you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver because we are competing, we are competing to win. — Ayrton Senna
Juan Fangio was the great man of racing, whilst Stirling Moss was the epitome of a racing driver. — Jackie Stewart
I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself. — Ferdinand Porsche
Jeep is America's only real sports car. — Enzo Ferrari
The word 'geek' today does not mean what it used to mean. A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something. — Olivia Munn
A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles. — Jenson Button
When I joined the trio, it was as if I was capable of driving a sports car at 60, but Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson just kept pressing the pedal down, and I was trying to control the car at 80! — Barney Kessel
When I first started running, I was so embarrassed I'd walk when cars passed me. I'd pretend I was looking at the flowers! — Joan Benoit
The Jeep is the only true American sports car. — Enzo Ferrari
In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He said, 'I didn't ask you to make it; you work for me.' — Carroll Shelby
Since my induction into the Sports Hall of Fame, I have wanted to have my No. 3 Chevy on exhibit for sports fans to see. I hope others will enjoy the car as much as I have. — Junior Johnson
In sport there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car. — Michael Schumacher
It's like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium — Dick Trickle
We broke something, I think it was traction. — Carl Edwards
When I started racing my father told me, 'Cristiano, nobody has three balls but some people have two very good ones.' — Cristiano da Matta
When you win a race your on top that day, so take it for what its worth, have a good time and party, cause the next day when you get out of bed, the meter goes back to zero again. — Bobby Allison
You win a race, the next race it’s a question mark. Are you still the best or not? That’s what is funny. But that’s what is interesting. And that’s what is challenging. You have to prove yourself every time. — Michael Schumacher
Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls. — Stirling Moss
Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down. — Dave Barry
The best way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a big one. — Junior Johnson
Everything we do needs to be geared toward making the sport [auto racing] more accessible to the fans - the rules of the sport, how the race plays itself out, how people qualify into the races - everything needs to be as easy to understand as possible. — Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
There have been other tracks that separated the men from the boys. This is the track that will separate the brave from the weak after the boys are gone. — Jimmy Thompson
Someone I talked to who covered auto racing for a lot of years said she believed there was a 60 percent chance that Junior qualified with a car not quite up to code and people looked the other way because there’s no points involved [with the pole]. — Tony Kornheiser
So "Grand Theft Auto," for those who don't know, is the video game series where players pretend to drive cars around these virtual cities, getting points for winning street races and killing people and generally creating mayhem. So, of course, we should make the robots practice driving in a violent, lawless dystopia. — Peter Sagal
There was a day when you could identify a NASCAR Ford, Chevrolet, or Dodge and they actually looked like "stock cars." Now they are pod machines, slick on the outside but still powered by the same Neanderthal carbureted pushrod V-8s that have been under their hoods for half a century. If this is real auto racing, then the WWF ought to be part of the Olympics. — Brock Yates
We commend GM for being the first out of the starting gate in the Great Plug-In Car Race of 2007. GM's announcements are the biggest victories yet for CalCars.org and other PHEV advocates. Now our campaign is in third gear. We'll work with the auto industry, government, fleet buyers and advocates to get to the day -- soon, not in a decade -- when customers can buy PHEVs as easily as any other car. — Felix Kramer
The hunger and desire to go racing, however, never leaves your blood but the right opportunity has never really come along - until now that is. — Nigel Mansell
Never ever doubt in magic. — Scott Dixon
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