Racing Quotes

In racing, I wanted to be a winner and to be a winner, you have to be willing to roll the dice.

For me, the American Dream was to go racing; for others, it's to pursue whatever their goals may be.

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.

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.

My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.

You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.

I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.

Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.

I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.

I guess it is the sense of personal satisfaction that racing gives you that I am probably going to miss, because in racing you get that feedback very quickly.

I don't really study the guys that I'm racing against.

When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.

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've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car.

In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.

I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.

In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.

I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.

I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.

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.

I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.

We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do.

My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble.

My son is racing his first 24-hour this year with Porsche.

I think computing power is ready to do 3D justice. It was great for shooters and racing games in the past, but I didn't think it was right for strategy games.

Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.

I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.

If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.

We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.