Racing famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
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 -
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.
-- Amy Hastings -
I started when I was seven years old so I was on 50, 60 cc Suzuki and then I went up to a Yamaha 125 and then my sister was 16 and she was racing a Harley Davidson 750.
-- Amy Weber -
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.
-- Apolo Ohno -
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.
-- Arnold Haultain -
To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Regardless, we are a two career household, and it's Dario's season, and I'm really excited about going racing.
-- Ashley Judd -
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 -
I don't know driving in another way which isn't risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other's.
-- Ayrton Senna -
If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver.
-- Ayrton Senna -
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.
-- Ayrton Senna -
I believe if you are doing something like competing, like motor racing, you either do well or forget it.
-- Ayrton Senna -
Pure driving, pure racing, that´s what makes me happy.
-- Ayrton Senna -
I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.
-- Barry Sheene -
The lower classes are such fools. They waste their money on the pools. I bet, of course, but that's misleading. One must encourage bloodstock breeding.
-- Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae -
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.
-- Bob Akin -
I remember all the entertainment shows showing pictures of Nicole Scherzinger annnnd that racing driver she was hanging around with.
-- Bob Varsha -
In racing, I wanted to be a winner and to be a winner, you have to be willing to roll the dice.
-- Bobby Rahal -
My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack.
-- Bode Miller -
My team has been very unreceptive about the fact that I consistently show them that I train slightly differently than they do, that I consistently show them that I am in better shape for ski racing than anyone else on the team.
-- Bode Miller -
I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.
-- Bode Miller -
From 1999 to 2003 was the peak of equipment in ski racing. Since then, it's all gone in the wrong direction.
-- Bode Miller -
Racing shirts should be sold on big, thick rolls like paper towels.
-- Brad Alan Lewis -
The slow boat-I know it's the slow boat because I've been watching them for thirty-three weeks-won the first piece by a full length. Then the fast boat won the second piece. And so it went for the next four pieces, back and forth. Conclusion: I hate seat racing.
-- Brad Alan Lewis -
My No. 1 goal in racing was never to be the most popular driver.
-- Brad Keselowski -
There was a day when you could identify a NASCAR Ford, Chevrolet, or Dodge and they actually looked like "stock cars." Now they are pod machines, slick on the outside but still powered by the same Neanderthal carbureted pushrod V-8s that have been under their hoods for half a century. If this is real auto racing, then the WWF ought to be part of the Olympics.
-- Brock Yates -
More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.
-- Brock Yates -
Racing should never be an ordeal, rather an enjoyable and life-enhancing experience.
-- Bruce Fordyce -
There is no average reason for a person getting involved in racing.
-- Bruce McLaren -
Sailboat racing becomes a game of chance only when you are not prepared
-- Buddy Melges -
Its always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.
-- Buddy Rice -
As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.
-- Carlos Ghosn -
Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game.
-- Carroll Shelby -
The racing driver needs to be fed a diet of other racing drivers.
-- Carroll Smith -
The price for men in motion is the occasional collision...
-- Carroll Smith -
There are many different types of prioritites in Motor Racing, the first...being how much you are willing to sacrifice in order to get to where you want to go.
-- Carroll Smith -
Nothing good has ever been written about the full rotation of a racecar about its roll axis.
-- Carroll Smith -
Balance, or drivability, and the ability to accelerate while cornering are more important than maximum cornering power - every time. Until you reach teh top levels of professional motor racing you will achieve more results by optimizing the package that you have than by redesigning it.
-- Carroll Smith -
You know I have about the same interest in jewelry as I have in politics, horse racing, modern poetry, and women who need weird excitement – none.
-- Cary Grant -
The racing that we've got in our industry right now is the best racing in the worldperiod.
-- Chad Knaus -
If you don't know where you're going, stop racing to get there. -- from Just Desert by M. T. Anderson
-- Chris Van Allsburg -
The quality of racing continues to excel with starters increasing to 1496,.
-- Christopher Nolan -
A racing horse is not like a machine. It has to be tuned up like a racing car.
-- Christopher Poole -
If at first you don't succeed, then drag racing isn't for you.
-- Christopher Titus -
I was just racing day by day. With Niki [Lauda], every race was to be on the top. He programmed his life to be champion. I enjoyed life. That was the maximum for me...
-- Clay Regazzoni -
Owning a racehorse is probably the most expensive way of getting on to a racecourse for nothing.
-- Clement Freud -
Money is how we keep the score in motor racing nowadays.
-- Colin Chapman -
Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.
-- Colin McRae -
I once bought an old car back after I sold it because I missed it so much and I had forgotten that it never ran. It was a British racing car. You know, because I just wanted it back. I could only remember what was good about it
-- Connie Chung -
Just about any story we think about doing, whether we've read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth - by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene
-- Connie Chung -
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.
-- Dale Archer -
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.
-- Dale Earnhardt -
Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.
-- Dale Earnhardt -
Second place is just the first place loser.
-- Dale Earnhardt -
That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be.
-- Dale Earnhardt -
The 2006 event logo combines the twin spires of Churchill Downs, one of the great signature elements in sports, with the greatest international day of Thoroughbred racing. We look forward to displaying the logo widely throughout the commonwealth of Kentucky, and to our international outlets.
-- Damon Thayer -
Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.
-- Dan Brown -
We have been involved in racing for so long, it is astonishing we were not born with hooves.
-- Daniel Wildenstein -
Boogity, boogity boogity! Let’s go racing boys!
-- Darrell Waltrip -
I bought my first horse when I was 15. I always loved racing and I started studying about breeding and I've been doing it now for 30 years, so I have some credibility.
-- David Cassidy -
Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.
-- David Cassidy -
I am not motivated by recognition, I just do things I like doing - racing, shagging, eating and drinking.
-- David Coulthard -
Racing drivers have balls, unfortunantly, none of them are crystal
-- David Coulthard -
The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.
-- Davy Jones -
Before I was an actor I was an apprentice jockey, and now I'm out there racing against boys, sort of the spokesperson for people over 50 that they can do it.
-- Davy Jones -
The recent actions by Kyle Busch are not consistent with the values of M&M'S and we're very disappointed. Like you, we hold those who represent our brand to a higher standard and we have expressed our concerns directly to Joe Gibbs Racing.
-- Denny Hamlin -
A horse doesn't know whether the rider on his back wears a dress or pants away from the track.
-- Diane Crump -
Racing is in my blood, I can't quite get out of it yet.
-- Dick Trickle -
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a footballer and racing driver, like all kids.
-- Diego Della Valle -
If lightning strikes while you're in the car it's your fault.
-- Doc Bundy -
But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn't racing. Life is the metaphor for the race.
-- Donald Antrim -
He's a very competitive competitor, that's the sort of competitor he is.
-- Dorian Williams -
Racing is the constant search for the weakest link.
-- Duane Bailey -
How smartly September comes in, like a racing gig, all style, no confusion.
-- Eleanor Clark -
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 -
A racing driver has to be a good driver.
-- Emerson Fittipaldi -
Gary Smith, when I came to America, taught me a great deal about racing.
-- Emerson Fittipaldi -
I am very happy because motor racing is very important outside the states, very big all over the world.
-- Emerson Fittipaldi -
I have to accept risk as a racing driver.
-- Emerson Fittipaldi -
I do not speak the English so good, but then I speak the driving very well.
-- Emerson Fittipaldi -
Indy car racing is much more aggressive.
-- Emerson Fittipaldi -
Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.
-- Enzo Ferrari -
What can we do to create shared prosperity? The answer is not to try to slow down technology. Instead of racing against the machine, we need to learn to race with the machine.
-- Erik Brynjolfsson -
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
If I'm out trailriding, I have a favorite motorcycle. Riding on the road, I've got a favorite. If I'm jumping, I have a favorite, and if I'm racing, I have a favorite.
-- Evel Knievel -
I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again.
-- Foxy Brown -
Again, racing for me was about energy management.
-- Frank Shorter -
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.
-- Frank Shorter -
Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.
-- Freeman Dyson -
This is a rule of racing: No race has ever been won in the first corner; many have been lost there.
-- Garth Stein -
There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.
-- Garth Stein
