Racing Quotes - Page 3

• Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Race, Important, Finishing

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• The ideal racecar will expire 100 yards past the finish line.

  Stirling Moss

  Past, Yards, Lines

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• I just bought a Lambourghini, I'm not even into racing with a windshield full of tickets cause I live right by the station.

  Drake

  Humble, Car, Causes

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• 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

  Motivational, Motor Racing, Car

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• Racing is the constant search for the weakest link.

  Duane Bailey

  Links, Weakest Link, Constant

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• Sometimes you have to bring back only the steering wheel so the car owner will know that you're giving it all you have.

  Mario Andretti

  Car, Giving, Wheels

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• Racing should never be an ordeal, rather an enjoyable and life-enhancing experience.

  Bruce Fordyce

  Should, Ordeals, Enjoyable

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• Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph.

  Peter Dunne

  Sports, Motor Racing, Mph

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• The price for men in motion is the occasional collision.

  Carroll Smith

  Men, Occasional, Collision

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• We all know the guy who sits at the end of the local bar telling the story of how he threw the winning touchdown pass in High School. I don't want to be that guy. Racing gives us all the chance to be athletes again.

  Don Panoz

  Athlete, School, Winning

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• Wrecks are going to happen in this business, that's just a risk of the sport. If you can't keep from worrying about it, then you're in the wrong line of work.

  Coo Coo Marlin

  Sports, Worry, Risk

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• Money, horse racing and women: three things the boys just can't figure out.

  Will Rogers

  Horse, Boys, Three

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• Tombay's hopes, which were nil before, are absolutely zero now

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Zero, Motor

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• A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.

  Dennis Miller

  Hands, Looks, Politics

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• Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.

  Jean Cocteau

  Love, Moving, Drug

  Jean Cocteau (1990). “Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure”, Peter Owen Publishers

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• A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Horse

  "Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Roosevelt Years, 1933-1935".

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• Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps; the need to take risks; and the chance to be number one.

  George A. Sheehan

  Race, Numbers, Risk

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

  Ayrton Senna

  Winning, Second Chance, Race

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• Second place is just the first place loser.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Inspirational, Car, Firsts

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• There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sports, Motor Racing, Games

  "Bullfighting Also Rises -- For Now" by Paul Wachter, www.esquire.com. February 14, 2013.

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• Good health, peace of mind, being outdoors, camaraderie - those are all wonderful things that come to you when running. But for me, the real pull of running - the proverbial icing on the cake - has always been racing.

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Real, Cake

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• Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

  Matt Groening

  Love, Life, Broken Heart

  Quoted in L.A. Times, 14 Feb. 1991

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• I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Winning, Race

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• If you don't come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you're not trying hard enough

  Mario Andretti

  Hands, Trying, Pits

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Racing is dangerous, but I've been in a lot worse situations as a pipe fitter.

  Neil Bonnett

  Dangerous, Situation, Pipe

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