Janet Guthrie famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.
-- Janet Guthrie

#Sports #Racing #Matter
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

#Effort #Racing #Use
Racing is a passion...at this level, a source of immense gratification. So the rest is no problem.
-- Janet Guthrie

#Passion #Racing #Levels
There is very little in civilized life that demands everything you got intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Driving is living. It's aggressive instead of passive living.
-- Janet Guthrie

#Demand #Littles #Driving
I'm trying to set out the passion and complexity of this sport. Many people think it's a dumb activity: stand on the gas and turn left. In fact, it's probably one of the most complex sports in existence.
-- Janet Guthrie

#Sports #Passion #Thinking
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

#Race #Car #Males
You drive the car, you don't carry it.
-- Janet Guthrie

#Car
It 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

#Desire #Littles #Matter
Racing is a calling, a passion.
-- Janet Guthrie

#Passion #Racing #Calling

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
Remember that sports are meant to be fun. Don't let someone make the sport unfun for you.
Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise.
After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.
Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.
To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.
I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
If you understand 'it' will come, then you'll understand 'it' will pass. No matter what happens, you can make it. Trust me, you can.

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