Tom Kristensen famous quotes

Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.
-- Tom Kristensen

#Winning #Missions

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.
-- Tom Kristensen

#Years #Racing #Trying

I never had any financial support or sponsors, and so I always had to, at every level, prove myself the hard way. I was five years in Japan before I got my debut at Le Mans. And I think this is a humble way to get through as a racing driver.
-- Tom Kristensen

#Humble #Thinking #Japan

Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team member. And being a team member makes you a better person.
-- Tom Kristensen

#Team #Race #Better Person

Le Mans takes the best out of everyone. Winning is important but it's not everything. It's such a big and great event in motorsport. You do more kilometres in that one race than Formula One do in a season, and probably a higher average speed. We average about 220km/h including pit stops and cover nearly 5000km.
-- Tom Kristensen

#Winning #Average #Race

The trick at Le Mans is to get the car 'in the window.' Everything is critical: the tyre pressure, the brake temperature, and that means you have to push the car a lot to get it into the window - it's about getting everything to work right and getting the car to flow through the corners.
-- Tom Kristensen

#Mean #Car #Tyres

Yes, with Le Mans, obviously, the approach needs to be different. You have a race only once a year, so in the whole focus, the whole energy, you know that you cannot change the world and have a race two weeks later.
-- Tom Kristensen

#Race #Years #Two

Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy

Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.

There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!

There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.

I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.

Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship

My mission was that I wanted to see people on the street that I don't know wearing my clothes. That excites me,

I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.

Christ not only died for all: He died for each.

Nothing will ever be what the Voyager mission was,