Bruce McLaren famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is no average reason for a person getting involved in racing.
-- Bruce McLaren

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Life is measured in achievement not in years alone
-- Bruce McLaren

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To do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy. It would be a waste of life to do nothing with one's ability, for I feel that life is measured in achievement, not in years alone.
-- Bruce McLaren

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To do something well is so worthwhile, that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy
-- Bruce McLaren

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Be hated. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, itâ€™s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by oneâ€™s own convictions. It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role. There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself.
A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
I can't wait to be racing through the streets of Chicago. As a notoriously fast course, I am out there to run a PR and compete with some of the world's best until the very end.
Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony. In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe; in golf it is yourself against the world: no human being stays your progress as you drive your ball over the face of the globe.
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.
I started racing go-karts. And I love karts. It's the most breath taking sport in the world. More than F1, indeed, I used to like it most.
Pure driving, pure racing, thatÂ´s what makes me happy.
You can't make a racehorse out of a pig. But if you work hard enough at it you can make a mighty fast pig.
Critics have a job to do. They do not criticize you without reason.
When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.

Bruce McLaren famous quotes

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