Nascar Racing Quotes

• 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, Motor Racing

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

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

  Henry Ford

  Funny Racing, Minutes, Motorsports

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• To finish first, you must first finish.

  Rick Mears

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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

  Parnelli Jones

  Speed, Enough, Funny Racing

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• It's basically the same, just darker.

  Alan Kulwicki

  Afl, Rugby, Funny Racing

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

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Motor Racing, Drug, Motorcycle

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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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• Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track, and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey, and you go to jail.

  Junior Johnson

  Home, Jail, Track

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• If you don't cheat, you look like an idiot; if you cheat and don't get caught, you look like a hero; if you cheat and get caught, you look like a dope. Put me where I belong.

  Darrell Waltrip

  Hero, Dope, Looks

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• If I have a love-hate relationship with Martinsville, then we're missing the love part of the equation.

  Tony Stewart

  Hate, Missing, Equations

  Q&A: Tony Stewart, www.crash.net. October 13, 2001.

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• In NASCAR, you don't have to be as physically strong as in some other forms of racing. You've just got to be able to endure the heat and endurance of it.

  Jeff Gordon

  Strong, Endurance, Able

  Time, Volume 171, 2008.

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• It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991

  Alan Kulwicki

  Sports, Sunday, Night

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• The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses.

  Mario Andretti

  People, Missing, Remember

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

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• Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

  Dave Barry

  Literature, Upside Down, Boring

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.104, Ballantine Books

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• You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Sports, Winning, Wrecks

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

  Murray Walker

  Unique, Motor Racing, Funny Racing

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• There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.

  Murray Walker

  Four, Lines, Today

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• Nobody remembers the guy who finished second but the guy who finished second.

  Bobby Unser

  Guy, Remember, Funny Racing

  Bobby Unser (2004). “Winners are Driven: A Champion's Guide to Success in Business and Life”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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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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• I wish they would pass a law where all Democrats and Republicans had to wear NASCAR racing suits, because if you look at the NASCAR drivers, it tells who their sponsors are. And if they do that, we could then become informed voters, because we would know who owns them.

  Jesse Ventura

  Law, Wish, Looks

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• NASCAR racing provides more brand awareness and interest than any of the other major sports. The opportunities to build business-to-business relationships within the racing community are endless.

  David Fricke

  Sports, Opportunity, Community

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• Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.

  Jesse Ventura

  Way, Suits, Debate

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• Tomorrow President Obama will host NASCAR racing champion Kevin Harvick at the White House. They both said they look forward to spending an hour or two not having the slightest interest in what the other is saying.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Two, White, House

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• If NASCAR racing gets any more exciting, I may not be able to stand it.

  Roger Staubach

  Able, May, Exciting

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