Racing Quotations

You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!

In racing, I wanted to be a winner and to be a winner, you have to be willing to roll the dice.

Day baseball is now dead for all practical purposes. Sooner or later, the game will be played in its entirety at night, and as I've said before, then baseball will be squarely in the amusement, the entertainment business along with wrestling, midget auto racing and the trotting tracks.

One of my greatest pleasures in motor racing is qualifying. You have loads of freedom from pushing a lap the whole way. I've always been very good in qualifying in the past; everything I've done, I've got pole positions.

Along with my passion for horse breeding, I was a horse racing enthusiast... In 1974 I was elected as a committee member and subsequently as a steward of the Turf Club. I had a burning desire to clean up the sport, which had always carried the stigma of gambling and manipulation.

The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.

The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.

You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.

I started racing myself and once you get bitten by that bug you really are hooked.

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

A racing driver has to be a good driver.

I love it in the States. The roads are big, the food is big. If it was possible to be in L.A. and still live my racing life, I would move now.

I've decided to retire from top class racing. It has been an incredible experience and has provided with me some unforgettable moments.

I'm racing against me. As long as I come across the finish, I'll be okay.

I guess it is the sense of personal satisfaction that racing gives you that I am probably going to miss, because in racing you get that feedback very quickly

We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal - fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our kitchen or getting that promotion - that it will make us happy. But the pain of our insecurity is hidden in all that racing around.

But since we've been fighting for first or second place, it's grabbed the media's attention. I enjoy racing them. They are a good team and when you beat them it's something to be proud of.

There is a severe horse overpopulation crisis caused by overbreeding in the racing industry. It's time for that industry to accept responsibility for its castoffs and take dramatic action to protect a species that has so loyally served humankind.

I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing.

I have to accept risk as a racing driver.

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.

I want to keep pushing the limits to see what's possible. That's the nice thing about ski racing - no one is stopping you from going faster.

I'm just attracted to the action element of science fiction. It's great to sit in the editing room with the director and sound engineers and to create the feeling where your heart is racing and you're sitting at the edge of your seat and you find yourself holding your breath.

As a teenager, I developed a great interest in not only horse breeding but also horse racing and used to bet based on red-hot tips. I realized that becoming a bookmaker would be very lucrative, but Dad put his foot down, saying it was an inappropriate career.

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

Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.

Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

I've lived an amazing life. There's no reason to focus on the bad. They teach you that in racing school. Keep your eye where you want your front tire to be. You don't want to be stuck in the rut? Then don't look at the rut. Always look at where you want to go.

If I weren't doing what I'm doing today... I'd be traveling around the world on the back of a motorcycle.

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.

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

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.

The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.

Footballers are kept in such a bubble that horse racing is a release.

Second place is just the first place loser.

Running an airline is a normal job. Racing is more.

Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.

When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.

The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.

I have a lot of great racing memories growing up in Europe as a young boy - playing with car parts on my dad's desk, watching the races on Sunday afternoons to try and spot him on TV, even having the chance to go to Formula 1 races where he was working.

IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards.

My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.

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

I don't see myself racing at 50 years old. I enjoy racing, and that has been my whole life. But one day I will take time to look at other things. I know that everything has an end date, even life, and I also have a family and there are other things to enjoy than trying to be first into the corner and fastest out.

Beside the brand-ambassador elements of the modern racing driver, the evolution of the athlete has mandated that as drivers, we are very committed to fitness.

I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.

In F1 too many things overshadow the racing. There is too much politics.

It's very, very special for me. This is where I've grown up, it's my home, and winning the Monaco Grand Prix is the highlight of any racing driver's career and for me a childhood dream. It being my home makes it all the more special, unbelievable.

Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.

I have yet to meet anyone quite so stubborn as myself and animated by this overpowering passion that leaves me no time for thought or anything else. I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.

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.

I didn't get into racing to make friends.

But to personally satisfy my own adrenalin needs, I've been racing cars a little bit, which has been fun.

Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.

For me to train and get ready for racing, I can't just sit in the gym all the time and that's the way it is. Responsibility starts and stops with me. My main gig is grand prix driving, that's what I do and I need to keep that in the forefront of my mind.

In racing, we have a better chance of it happening quicker because we have attracted good people to come to work for us. It's the beginning of a great adventure, and we're looking forward to it.

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.

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.

The reason I'm drawn to it is - both the off road racing and the motorcycles on the track - it takes a lot for me to quiet my brain and anything that requires 100% of my attention and focus I find very soothing and that is the closest I get to being content.

I was always fast; I was always racing guys that were older than me and beating them, so I always had speed. I was able to make good cuts at a young age, on the side of the house with my dad, going through different plays, working on cuts and stuff like that.

A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

I just always dreamed of racing cars, but I didn't think I could do it as a living.

I love street races; theres something about racing in the middle of a city.

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

There are so many people who have died of cycling, and that didn't happen when I was racing.

I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.

I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.

From 1999 to 2003 was the peak of equipment in ski racing. Since then, it's all gone in the wrong direction.

Again, racing for me was about energy management.

Gary Smith, when I came to America, taught me a great deal about racing.

Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.

I wear a continuous glucose monitor when I'm racing.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a footballer and racing driver, like all kids.

I work six months and get three or four with the family. I've stopped racing to get to the red light.

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

Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.

Even though people involved in racing think that it has a big sporting stage, it is a minority sport compared to some of the other high-profile events: football, Formula One or golf.

Football is only once a week. NASCAR is once a week. Those sports are insanely popular. Horse racing is oversaturated. Unless tracks cut back to three days a week of full fields, a lot of people will really hurt down the road. Horse racing, to survive, has to go to that. Let's face it: Churchill Downs only does well on Derby Week.

My father is a huge horse racing fan, so I was introduced to the sport long before 'Seabiscuit.' But the role made me an even bigger fan. Horse racing is one of my favorite sports.

Gone are the days when you could lie on a beach between races and still be in good enough shape to compete. Gone are the days when simply wearing a brand on your firesuit was enough to justify the marketing expense of an Indy Car. Racing an Indy Car is only about a quarter of my life as a racing driver.

Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.

Sitting beside the pool is fine for two weeks, but after that I think it'd be quite hard to live with - so I need to keep racing.

I am not the kind of designer who is racing to the finish line, so while collaborations are important for our growth, each and every one has to be strategic and well-timed with what we have going on internally.

I grew up racing off-road trucks. They were on road courses with jumps. I made a name for myself in that style of racing.

When there's somebody racing side-by-side, when somebody's right next to me and they're pushing and we're both tired, we're both fatigued, I want to be able to beat them mentally.

I don't think 'Call Of Duty: Black Ops' sells 25 million plus copies and makes of a billion dollars because of their great storytelling. It's the multiplayer aspect of that type of game, where people get together to shoot each other and have fun. And it's very much gameplay; it's like 'Gran Turismo' or one of these racing games.

Long practise in driving a racing car at a hundred miles an hour or so gives first-class training in control and judging distances at high speed and helps tremendously in getting motor sense, which is rather the feel of your engine than the sound of it, a thing you get through your bones and nerves rather than simply your ears.

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

The competition in today's world of racing is so tough.

I really love to ride my motorcycle. When I want to just get away and be by myself and clear my head, that's what I do.

I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.

I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again.

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.

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.

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

I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.

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

Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.