Racing Quotes

My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.

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

We have had more sales for this year's grand prix than any other, and we have been helped in that by the fact that Jenson had 10 podiums last season and looks like a winner. It is good for British motor racing if he is there and doing well.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

I enjoy racing so much. Ever since I was 8 or 9, I trained every stroke, because it was the only way I could race a lot.

If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it.

After hurting myself like that, I could not go back immediately to racing. I was in no condition, mentally or physically. That helped me to strengthen myself to go through the hard times that were ahead with my business, and to be successful.

Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game.

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

It's always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.

Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

A racing driver has to be a good driver.

I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

I think driving in New York is a great experience. A lot more racing techniques go into it than anyplace else I've ever driven. There basically are no lanes.

Through F1, I bought my own boat. I learned to fly my own plane and helicopter. And my job with my company is a reflection of everything motor racing taught me.

Indy car racing is much more aggressive.

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

Regardless, we are a two career household, and it's Dario's season, and I'm really excited about going racing.

Over the Thanksgiving holiday I took time to reflect on what is most important to me and realized I need to find a way to put the fun back into racing.

As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.

Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it's just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing.

I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother's Morris Minor. I drove it around my father's farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years.

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

I love horse racing, I play golf, and I love travelling.

Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion.

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.

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

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.