Race Car Quotes - Page 6

• To be a driver that can cross off one of those marquee events as a winner, that cements your legacy in motorsports, to be able to win the Daytona 500 is the ultimate dream of a race car driver.

  Tony Stewart

  Dream, Winning, Race

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• When it came to spankings, my dad never used a belt. One time he grabbed a piece of my Hot Wheels race car track. In my mind I'm thinking, 'Great, now I'm being beaten with my own toys...' Thank God I didn't get that wood burning set I wanted.

  Scott Wood

  Dad, Thinking, Race

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• I wanted to be a car mechanic and I wanted to race cars and the idea of trying to make something out of my life wasn't really a priority. But the accident allowed me to apply myself at school. I got great grades. Eventually I got very excited about anthropology and about social sciences and psychology, and I was able to push my photography even further and eventually discovered film and film schools.

  George Lucas

  Photography, School, Ideas

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• I can spend the hour before the race cracking up with all my friends and joking around, but as soon as I get around that race car, I completely change. The focus changes. The competitive juices get flowing.

  Denny Hamlin

  Race, Car, Focus

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• Every time my cameras go out on a movie, we learn something new and then we take what we learn and we put it into the next generation of the cameras so we're constantly improving. It's kind of like building a race car, racing it, then running back to the shop and working on the engine some more and tinkering with it to improve it.

  James Cameron

  Running, Race, Car

  "James Cameron Interview, Sanctum". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. February 2011.

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• I think I was always realistic - well, not the Percy thing, that was ridiculous - but I never dreamed of being a racing car driver or anything.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Thinking, Car, Racing

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Speed is relative. Does it feel fast going 70 miles per hour down an eight lane highway? No, probably not, but I bet it does if you are going down some single lane dirt road. It's the same in a race car. It depends on the track.

  Kyle Petty

  Eight, Race, Track

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• Dale Earnhardt was the best race car driver there will ever be in NASCAR. I would hope you don't expect me to replace him because nobody ever will.

  Kevin Harvick

  Race, Car, Drivers

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• As a race car driver, driving is the easy part. The hard part is containing the emotions on the race track.

  Kevin Harvick

  Race, Track, Car

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• As a kid, I loved my Matchbox cars, my Big Wheels, and the race cars on TV. When I laid eyes on my first go-kart when I was just five, it gave my desire for making things with wheels go fast a focus. This combined with the fact that I've been incredibly competitive since a young age made for the proper mix of passion and aggression to become a race car driver.

  Andy Lally

  Passion, Kids, Eye

  Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The criticism from the other side of [race] debate - and these are not necessarily I think defenders of [Donald] Trump, but they're certainly quick to say, you know, if you're going to live by the race card, you die by the race card.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Thinking, Race, Criticism

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Everybody was inspired by the drawings and the wind tunnels and the race cars - but no one wanted to work with me because I had a reputation for being an aerodynamic dictator!

  Luigi Colani

  Car, Reputation, Inspired

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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