Drag Racing Quotes

• 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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• Alcohol is for drinking, gas is for cleaning parts, and nitro is for racing!

  Don Garlits

  Drinking, Alcohol, Racing

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• Everything was fine until I left and then I ran out of talent!

  Don Garlits

  Talent, Fine, Ran

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• If at first you don't succeed, then drag racing isn't for you.

  Christopher Titus

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Funny Work

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• If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens.

  Bert Sugar

  Sports, Horse, Kings

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• I've loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father.

  Queen Latifah

  Father, Thinking, Car

  Intreview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 21, 2004.

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• The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sports, Wrestling, Fighting

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.82, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm strapped in [the barrel] with a five-point drag-racing harness. With 50 feet to go, they tell me on the walkie-talkie to get ready for a head-first. "We love ya, man," was the last thing I heard. Then I could feel myself going over.

  Steve Trotter

  Men, Feet, Racing

  Source: ca.askmen.com

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