Car Racing Quotes

Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built.

Henry Ford

Nascar Racing, Funny Racing, Minutes

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What's behind you doesn't matter.

Enzo Ferrari

Motivational, Motor Racing, Car

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When you win a race your on top that day, so take it for what its worth, have a good time and party, cause the next day when you get out of bed, the meter goes back to zero again.

Bobby Allison

Zero, Party, Winning

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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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What sets these - and all - racers apart from less daredevilish mortals is their complete lack of fear and their joy of doing something on the edge. They love to speed because it is dangerous.

Peter Golenbock

Joy, Racing, Speed

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Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.

Colin McRae

Race, Car, Racing

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Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.

Ernest Hemingway

Funny, Sports, Real

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You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

Ayrton Senna

Motivational, Winning, Motor Racing

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If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

Mario Andretti

Inspirational, Funny, Life

"Driving With Mario Andretti, Who at 76, Still Refuses to Slow Down". Interview with Sam Smith, www.roadandtrack.com. June 24, 2016.

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The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose.

Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

Motivational, Sports, Motor Racing

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The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.

Murray Walker

Unique, Motor Racing, Nascar Racing

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Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines.

Enzo Ferrari

Motor Racing, Aerodynamics, Car

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

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Once you've raced, you never forget it...and you never get over it.

Richard Childress

Car, Racing, Never Forget

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It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.

Mario Andretti

Motivational, Thinking, Nascar Racing

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

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Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

Paul Newman

Law, Racing, Useless

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Race cars are neither beautiful nor ugly. They become beautiful when they win.

Enzo Ferrari

Beautiful, Winning, Race

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To finish first, you must first finish.

Rick Mears

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

Hunter S. Thompson

Motor Racing, Nascar Racing, Drug

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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

Motivational, Motor Racing, Race

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

Steven Wright

Funny, Death, Suicide

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If you're in control, you're not going fast enough.

Parnelli Jones

Nascar Racing, Speed, Enough

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The price for men in motion is the occasional collision.

Carroll Smith

Men, Racing, Occasional

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

Stirling Moss

Past, Racing, Yards

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If lightning strikes while you're in the car it's your fault.

Doc Bundy

Car, Racing, Lightning

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Driving fast on the track does not scare me. What scares me is when I drive on the highway I get passed by some idiot who thinks he is Fangio.

Juan Manuel Fangio

Thinking, Track, Scare

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