Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion. — Murray Walker
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
Money is how we keep the score in motor racing nowadays. — Colin Chapman
To hell with safety. All I want to do is race. — James Hunt
A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments. — Mario Andretti
I've been in motorsport my whole life since I was eight years of age. — 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
I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same. — Valentino Rossi
I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car. — Nigel Mansell
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. — Ernest Hemingway
To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike. — Valentino Rossi
Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built. — Henry Ford
The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended. — Enzo Ferrari
I am focused on racing. I enjoy it. It's a great feeling to be back fighting for the title. — Valentino Rossi
Short Motor Racing Quotes
I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars. — Enzo Ferrari
When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough. — Ayrton Senna
I love swimming because racing. — Ryan Lochte
My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike. — Jacky Ickx
The most exciting moment during the race weekend? — Kimi Raikkonen
Racing is the constant search for the weakest link. — Duane Bailey
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
Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him — Murray Walker
Fast cars like Porsches and Ferraris - they are things of beauty. — Rod Stewart
Motor Racing Image Quotes
Running away from your problems is a race you'll never win.
Motorsport Quotes
You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are. — Juan Manuel Fangio
It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance. — Jackie Stewart
You live more in five minutes on a bike like this going flat out than some people live in a lifetime. — Burt Munro
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
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.
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
Auto Racing Quotes
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
Race cars are neither beautiful nor ugly. They become beautiful when they win. — Enzo Ferrari
Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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.
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
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
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
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
Car Racing Quotes
Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers. — Colin McRae
The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts. — Ferdinand Porsche
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
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
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
Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Race Car Quotes
You won't catch me driving a race car that I have built. — Colin Chapman
Turbochargers are for people who cant build engines. — Keith Duckworth
Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death. — Hunter S. Thompson
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
Oh yes. It's not when you brake but when you take them off that counts. Most people don't understand that. — Jackie Stewart
The best classroom of all times was about two car lengths behind Juan Manuel Fangio. — Stirling Moss
I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing. — Valentino Rossi
It's basically the same, just darker. — Alan Kulwicki
It's like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium — Dick Trickle
We broke something, I think it was traction. — Carl Edwards
Racing Driver Quotes
If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver. — 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
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
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
Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than others. — Ayrton Senna
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
Ukyo Katayama is undoubtedly the best Formula One driver that Grand Prix racing has ever produced — Murray Walker
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
Motor Cars Quotes
It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room. — Helmut Newton
I mean, I had fast motor cars and fast motor bikes, and when I wasn't crashing airplanes, I was crashing motor bikes. It's all part of the game. — Harry Broadhurst
To a dog, motoring isn't just a way of getting from here to there, it's also a thrill and an adventure. The mere jingle of car keys is enough to send most any dog into a whimpering, tail-wagging frenzy. — Jon Winokur
Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends. — Lewis Mumford
And the first five places are filled by five different cars. — Murray Walker
And the first three cars are all Escorts, which isn't surprising as this is an all Escort race. — Murray Walker
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car? — George Bernard Shaw
When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air, and high speed motor cars and television, all the animation - a world apart from a little square of canvas that you smear paint on. — Wayne Thiebaud
The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry. — Ernest Gellner
Where is the pricing system that offers the consumer a fair choice between air to breathe and motor cars to drive about in? — Joan Robinson
Nascar Racing Quotes
If I have a love-hate relationship with Martinsville, then we're missing the love part of the equation. — Tony Stewart
Why did I take up racing? I was too lazy to work and too chicken to steal — Kyle Petty
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 makes things funny. A black guy driving in NASCAR: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Tide: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Aunt Jemima: hilarious. — Carlos Mencia
In this country, the most popular form of car racing is the huge multibillion dollar industry that`s called stock car racing. That`s what NASCAR is. That`s what the SC stands for in the middle of NASCAR, Stock cars. — Rachel Maddow
Dale Earnhardt was the best race car driver there will ever be in NASCAR. I would hope you don't expect me to replace him because nobody ever will. — Kevin Harvick
Tomorrow President Obama will host NASCAR racing champion Kevin Harvick at the White House. They both said they look forward to spending an hour or two not having the slightest interest in what the other is saying. — Jimmy Fallon
Motor Vehicles Quotes
A premise of the new city is that we want a society to be as egalitarian as possible. For this purpose, quality-of-life distribution is more important than income distribution. [And quality of life includes] a living environment as free of motor vehicles as possible. — Enrique Penalosa
And almost half of American oil consumption is for motor vehicles. — Tim Holden
Consider this: 1. Would you ride in a car whose driver was on the consciousness-expanding "entheogenic" drug LSD? And here's a bonus question: 2. Why does an "expanded consciousness" include the inability to operate a motor vehicle? — Brad Warner
Anyone who's ever filed a tax return or visited the Department of Motor Vehicles understands that government does two things well: spend our money and waste our time. — Edwin Feulner
I will go anywhere if you say the phrase 'there might be cake.' I would go to the Department of Motor Vehicles, register somebody else's boat in Spanish, a language I do not speak, without ID - for cake. — Greg Behrendt
Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles. — P. J. O'Rourke
I finally came to Washington. That's when something happened. The Motor Vehicle Act of 1966, even though it was irregularly enforced - sometimes very little under Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan - it saved over 200,000 lives, millions of injuries prevented or reduced in severity. — Ralph Nader
Decrements in attention and concentration, being able to learn more efficiently, that's just not as good. Also, there are motor vehicle accidents, workplace accidents, we see that a lot. — Shelby Harris
But from the perspective of the aging parent, there is no major difference between four and fifteen, except that when your child is four, his motoring privileges are restricted to little toy Fisher-Price vehicles which are unlikely (although I would not totally rule it out in America) to sue you. — Dave Barry
... I never was one to get upset about a few scratches on a motor vehicle, it is meant to be used, not saved. — Garrison Keillor
Race Car Driver Quotes
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
You think I'm a pretty good race car driver? Wait until you see my brother. He's the best driver in the family. — Kurt Busch
I assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver. — Rodger Ward
I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Can I put my feet out the window? Man, you really like Tide. — Mitch Hedberg
Mansell can see him in his earphone. — Murray Walker
Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog. — Damon Hill
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
Since I started in motor racing I've worked with people from all over the world. We are all here to go racing and prejudice will never play any part in that. — Kimi Raikkonen
Jenson Button is in the top ten, in eleventh position. — Murray Walker
With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is. — Murray Walker
Look up there! That's the sky! — Murray Walker
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. — Carroll Smith
Rally points scoring is twenty for the fastest, eighteen for the second fastest, right down to six points for the slowest fastest. — Murray Walker
Mansell is slowing it down, taking it easy. Oh, no he isn't! It's a lap record. — Murray Walker
You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing. — Murray Walker
That's the first time he had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in Canada earlier this year. — Murray Walker
And there's the man in the green flag! — Murray Walker
Speaking from memory, I don't know how many points Nelson Piquet has. — Murray Walker
And Damon Hill is following Damon Hill. — Murray Walker
Unless I am very much mistaken...I AM very much mistaken...! — Murray Walker
I have spent--or wasted--my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing and bull fighting as the only true sports. The rest, he sniffed, are merely games. — Brock Yates
Horsepower sells motorcars and torque wins motor races. — Carroll Smith
The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous. — Sebastian Vettel
Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th. — Murray Walker
And there's no damage to the car. Except to the car itself. — Murray Walker
I make jokes about the fact that as a neuro-surgeon I shouldn't be required at a motor race because the drivers don't have any brains.... otherwise they wouldn't race. — Sid Watkins
Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph. — Peter Dunne
As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing. — Carlos Ghosn
The European drivers have adapted to this circuit extremely quickly, especially Paul Radisich who's a New Zealander. — Murray Walker
I didn't see the time, largely because there wasn't one. — Murray Walker
Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve. — Murray Walker
As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto is fifth. — Murray Walker
Gilles was the fastest driver in the history of motor racing — Jody Scheckter
I told my nephew that if he wanted to get on in motor racing, the first thing he should do was master English. Thank goodness he now speaks it. — Juan Manuel Fangio
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