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
You don't race cars, you race the rule book — Smokey Yunick
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
Racing is the constant search for the weakest link. — Duane Bailey
When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important. — Bill Shoemaker
When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important. — Willie Shoemaker
It (racing) is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going. — Janet Guthrie
I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same. — Valentino Rossi
Running an airline is a normal job. Racing is more. — Niki Lauda
I am focused on racing. I enjoy it. It's a great feeling to be back fighting for the title. — Valentino Rossi
A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments. — Mario Andretti
The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other. — Christopher McDougall
Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games. — Ernest Hemingway
Short Racing Quotes
I believe there is only one race - the human race. — Rosa Parks
We can't let people drive wedges between us... because there's only one human race. — Dolores Huerta
The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart. — Bill Bowerman
There is only one race, the human race. — Robert Sobukwe
We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half. — Emmeline Pankhurst
If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver. — Ayrton Senna
The primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races. — Harry J. Anslinger
Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers. — Colin McRae
The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race. — Bob Marley
What's behind you doesn't matter. — Enzo Ferrari
Racing Image Quotes
In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American. — Antonin Scalia
Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing. — Hunter S. Thompson
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. — Lily Tomlin
And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within. — Eric Liddell
To hell with safety. All I want to do is race. — James Hunt
Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans! — Augustus
Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover. — Henri Poincare
This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex. — Dan Rather
Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. — Orson Welles
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If Honda does not race, there is no Honda. — Soichiro Honda
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. — H. G. Wells
The Jews of Poland are the smeariest of all races. — Karl Marx
If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. — John Foster Dulles
Just put one foot in front of the other. — Austin Peck
It's time for the human race to enter the solar system. — Dan Quayle
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. — Mark Twain
I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race. — Giancarlo Esposito
I never lost a freestyle race. Never. Not even in the YMCA. — Johnny Weissmuller
A race track is a place where windows clean people. — Danny Thomas
Running away from your problems is a race you'll never win.
Drag Racing Quotes
Alcohol is for drinking, gas is for cleaning parts, and nitro is for racing! — Don Garlits
Everything was fine until I left and then I ran out of talent! — Don Garlits
It is a love/hate relationship I have with the human race. I am an elitist, and I feel that my responsibility is to drag the human race along with me, that I will never pander to, or speak down to, or play the safe game. — Harlan Ellison
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.
If at first you don't succeed, then drag racing isn't for you. — Christopher Titus
I think what I create is serious fashion, but I don't want to keep my focus on that. You have to look at a lot of different things. I mean, people are always surprised when they find out that my favorite show is RuPaul's Drag Race. — Jason Wu
If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens. — Bert Sugar
Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
If CART continues on, it's just going to drag all of open-wheel racing down. — Michael Andretti
The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it. — Hunter S. Thompson
We encrypt 'Drag Race' with the secret language that kept gay people linked for many years before the '80s. — RuPaul
I'm strapped in [the barrel] with a five-point drag-racing harness. With 50 feet to go, they tell me on the walkie-talkie to get ready for a head-first. "We love ya, man," was the last thing I heard. Then I could feel myself going over. — Steve Trotter
Street Racing Quotes
Even when black youth gangs target white strangers on the streets and spew out racial hatred as they batter them and rob them, mayors, police chiefs and the media tiptoe around their racism and many in the media either don't cover these stories or leave out the race and racism involved. — Thomas Sowell
It's neither our culture nor our race which
interconnects us. It's Street Photography. — Thomas Leuthard
I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our hands and see who could get the farthest. I was always playing football with them, basketball or racing in the street. — Florence Griffith Joyner
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
Surfers are members of a different race of people from the man in the street — Nat Young
Do I race motorcycles? I do. I use the word 'race' because, I admit, what I do on a motocross bike is different than riding a Harley down the street. — Jeff Kent
If we fail to provide boys with pro-social models of the transition to adulthood, they may construct their own. In some cases, gang initiation rituals, street racing, and random violence may be the result. — Leonard Sax
We think of Shots Fired as almost an autopsy of Ferguson that shows the events from every street in the house. And, in dealing with these two murders of a black victim and a white victim, we show the ways that communities and the media deal with victims differently based on race. — Gina Prince-Bythewood
Mary Keitany from Kenya won the women's race at the New York City Marathon. You can tell she was fast because guys on the street didn't even have time to finish their catcalls. — David Letterman
It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race. — Maya Angelou
I love F1, the cars and the speed. I love the race in Monaco for example, because there's such a special atmosphere on the streets and also, the race is very technical. I'm a big racing fan in general, so I'd love to try the cars. — Michel Salgado
Car Racing Quotes
Race cars are neither beautiful nor ugly. They become beautiful when they win. — Enzo Ferrari
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
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
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
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
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. — Ernest Hemingway
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
Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built. — Henry Ford
Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog. — Damon Hill
Once you've raced, you never forget it...and you never get over it. — Richard Childress
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
Racing Driver Quotes
You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood. — Ayrton Senna
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
The best classroom of all times was about two car lengths behind Juan Manuel Fangio. — Stirling Moss
Racing drivers have balls, unfortunantly, none of them are crystal — David Coulthard
The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended. — Enzo Ferrari
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
Motor Racing Quotes
Mansell can see him in his earphone. — Murray Walker
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
Your luck goes up and down like swings and roundabouts — James Hunt
Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion. — Murray Walker
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
Money is how we keep the score in motor racing nowadays. — Colin Chapman
With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is. — Murray Walker
Horse Racing Quotes
The thing I notice first about a woman is her walk. A beautiful woman is like a race horse-slim, sleek and with a beautiful carriage. — Dean Martin
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race. — Gough Whitlam
I have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they're coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren't conservative. These guys are radicals. — Bradley Whitford
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. — John Steinbeck
Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women. — Lord Kelvin
A good jockey doesn't need orders and a bad jockey couldn't carry them out anyway; so it's best not to give them any. — Lester Piggott
There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse. — Robert Smith Surtees
The title race is between two horses and a little horse that needs milk and needs to learn how to jump. — Jose Mourinho
A horse gallops with his lungs, perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character. — Federico Tesio
Never think of your car as a cold machine, but as a hot-blooded horse. — Juan Manuel Fangio
Heart Racing Quotes
I feel 100% a Yamaha rider in my heart. I had a long career and raced with several factory bikes, but the highlight of my career is undoubtedly with Yamaha. — Valentino Rossi
There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest. — Robert W. Service
The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves. — Mark Twain
If you desire with all your heart, friendship with every race on earth, your thought, spiritual and positive, will spread; it will become the desire of others, growing stronger and stronger, until it reaches the minds of all men. — Abdu'l-Bahá
Rowing is an absurdly simple sport. I can easily guide a beginner throught the right technical motions. The difficulty arises when the beginner attempts to repeat those motions on a bumpy race course, at 40 strokes a minute, with his heart rate zooming, and an opponent charging up his stern. — Brad Alan Lewis
One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave. — Angelina Grimke
When Black and White are colors and not races, people will still fall in love and discriminate between partners and feel sad and bad and need art that breaks your heart and takes you to those places where pain becomes beauty. — Marlene Dumas
He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it. — Herman Melville
Bike Racing Quotes
I think it is just terrible and disgusting how everyone has treated Lance Armstrong, especially after what he achieved winning seven Tour de France races while on drugs......When I was on drugs I couldn't even find my bike. — Willie Nelson
For 50 years bike racers have been taking stimulants. Obviously we can do without them in a race, but then we will pedal 15 miles an hour (instead of 25). Since we are constantly asked to go faster and to make even greater efforts, we are obliged to take stimulants — Jacques Anquetil
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. — Valentino Rossi
You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing. — Greg LeMond
We have the 2004 M1 here for reference, which is useful. It worked well here last year; we won the race and always did fast lap times so it will be interesting to compare it to the new bike and it will help us to understand which parts have improved. — Valentino Rossi
I told myself I would never stop skating. I would never stop riding bikes or riding motorcycles. I raced dirt when I was a kid; motocross. So it definitely keeps me in tune with my youth. I'm almost 40 years old and I feel like I'm 17 years old, and I feel like that's really healthy. — Matt Skiba
Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure. — Valentino Rossi
I grew up playing everything from rugby, football, baseball, volleyball, bike races and boxing. I tried martial arts, loved to ride horses and I'm the youngest of three brothers, so it was a fiercely competitive family. — Barry Pepper
Race Car Quotes
I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car. — Nigel Mansell
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
When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough. — Ayrton Senna
You won't catch me driving a race car that I have built. — Colin Chapman
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
I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing. — Valentino Rossi
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
Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests. — David Duke
Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy. — Thurgood Marshall
A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of the race. — Sarojini Naidu
A world I dream where black or white,
Whatever race you be,
Will share the bounties of the Earth
And every man is free. — Langston Hughes
Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today.... National pride has no need of the delirium of race. — Benito Mussolini
God gave you your own race to run, stop comparing yourself to other people. They have their race and you have yours. Run hard and don't quit. — LeCrae
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. — W. E. B. Du Bois
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. — Kofi Annan
The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth — Jim Harrison
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation. — John Calvin
When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times. — Mark Twain
There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public. — Booker T. Washington
I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race. — Madam C. J. Walker
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