Racing Quotes - Page 4

• Racing is the fun part; it's the reward of all the hard work.

  Kara Goucher

  Fun, Hard Work, Rewards

  Twitter post from Nov 8, 2012

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• I am a racer. I'm not a race car driver. I am a racer. I race. That's what I do. I don't go on vacations. I don't take my family on vacations because I don't have a family. My family is the racing family.

  Tony Stewart

  Vacation, Race, Car

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• Racing drivers have balls, unfortunantly, none of them are crystal

  David Coulthard

  Crystals, Balls, Drivers

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• I make jokes about the fact that as a neuro-surgeon I shouldn't be required at a motor race because the drivers don't have any brains.... otherwise they wouldn't race.

  Sid Watkins

  Race, Brain, Facts

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• To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster.

  Stirling Moss

  Motivational, Motor Racing, Games

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• During a race, it's like I become a machine and the machine becomes a man. I talk to my cars, baby them, shout at them, praise them.

  Cale Yarborough

  Baby, Men, Race

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• I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.

  Juan Manuel Fangio

  Games, Balls, Billiards

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• We drove for the sheer fun of driving because there wasn't that much money to be made.

  Richard Petty

  Fun, Driving, Made

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• If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower.

  Mark Donohue

  Two, Car, Black

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• Never think of your car as a cold machine, but as a hot-blooded horse.

  Juan Manuel Fangio

  Horse, Thinking, Car

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

  Sebastian Vettel

  Dad, Together, Ordinary

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Oh yes. It's not when you brake but when you take them off that counts. Most people don't understand that.

  Jackie Stewart

  People, Car Racing, Brake

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• I really love to ride my motorcycle. When I want to just get away and be by myself and clear my head, that's what I do.

  Kyle Chandler

  Motorcycle, Riding, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No, it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end of the straightaway in high gear. Too much power is never enough.

  Mark Donohue

  Power, Car, Not Good Enough

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• Stardom equals financial success and financial success equals security. I've spent too much of my life feeling insecure. I still have nightmares about being poor, of everything I own just vanishing away. Stardom means that can't happen.

  Steve McQueen

  Mean, Insecure, Feelings

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• By being a racing driver means you are racing with other people. And if you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver because we are competing, we are competing to win.

  Ayrton Senna

  Mean, Winning, People

  Interview at the 1990 Australian Grand Prix, November 1990.

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• Cornering perfectly is like bringing a woman to climax.

  Jackie Stewart

  Climax

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• I want to be up front racing.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Want, Fronts

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• Racing is bulging at the seams with pure nutball characters, men who can drink more, screw more, fight more, laugh more, joke more, than practically any collection of people in the world.

  Brock Yates

  Character, Fighting, Men

  Brock Yates (2004). “NASCAR Off the Record”, p.169, MotorBooks International

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• To finish first, you must first finish.

  Rick Mears

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls.

  Stirling Moss

  Years, Car, Motorcycle

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• Be confident in the work you did to prepare for the race. Take a look back at your training logs to remind yourself that you've done everything possible to prepare. The race is the fun part where you get to see the hard work pay off. Enjoy it.

  Desiree Linden

  Fun, Hard Work, Race

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

  Bill Rodgers

  Motivational, Running, Feelings

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• Different people have different reasons for racing, but one is simply the incentive to get out and run, increase mileage and feel good.

  Hal Higdon

  Running, People, Feel Good

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• A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Motivational, Running, Art

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