Racing Quotes - Page 11

• Running an airline is a normal job. Racing is more.

  Niki Lauda

  Running, Jobs, Normal

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

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• The lower classes are such fools. They waste their money on the pools. I bet, of course, but that's misleading. One must encourage bloodstock breeding.

  Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae

  Horse, Class, Waste

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• After winning the Derby aged just 18-Why all the fuss? After all, the Derby is just another race.

  Lester Piggott

  Horse, Winning, Race

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• When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good. There have been times when I have been flat-out to finish sixth, but you can't see that from the outside. In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place. I pushed like mad, yet everyone was gathered around the winner and they were thinking that I was just trundling around. But that's motor racing. So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport is the long term. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.

  Alain Prost

  Sports, Winning, Thinking

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

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• By being a racing driver you are under risk all the time. 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. And the main motivation to all of us is to compete for victory, it's not to come 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th. I race to win as long as I feel it's possible. Sometimes you get it wrong? Sure, it's impossible to get it right all the time. But I race designed to win, as long as I feel I'm doing it right.

  Ayrton Senna

  Motivation, Mean, Winning

  Interview at the 1990 Australian Grand Prix, November 1990.

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• A racing horse is not like a machine. It has to be tuned up like a racing car.

  Christopher Poole

  Horse, Car, Machines

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• I started racing go-karts. And I love karts. It's the most breath taking sport in the world. More than F1, indeed, I used to like it most.

  Ayrton Senna

  Sports, World, Used

  TV Interview on "Roda Viva", TV Cultura Channel, 1986.

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• I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.

  Lillie Langtry

  Acting, Lapses, Found

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• On a horse that consistently hung left-The best thing you can do is put a bit of lead in his right ear, to act as a counterbalance ... with a shotgun.

  Lester Piggott

  Horse, Ears, Shotguns

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• Tears streamed down my face as I crossed the finish line. I was a new person, a runner.

  Thomas King

  Running, Tears, Lines

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• There's enough Ferraris here to eat a plate of spaghetti.

  Jackie Stewart

  Car, Ferrari, Enough

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• Air racing may not be better than your wedding night, but it's better than the second night.

  Mickey Rupp

  Night, Air, May

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• Brundle is driving an absolutely pluperfect race.

  Murray Walker

  Race, Driving, Motor

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• And now Jacques Laffitte is as close to Surer as Surer is to Laffitte

  Murray Walker

  Motor

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• Even as I speak, in four hours time the Kyalami Grand Prix will roar away

  Tony Lewis

  Four, Speak, Hours

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• Pain is that last quarter of a mile. You feel it, but when you’re through racing, your whole body just feels elated. So the pain is worth it.

  Louis Zamperini

  Pain, Body, Lasts

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• ... the lead is now 6.9 seconds. In fact it's just under 7 seconds

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Facts

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• I wonder if Watson is in the relaxed state of mind he's in

  Murray Walker

  Mind, Wonder, States

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• I do not speak the English so good, but then I speak the driving very well.

  Emerson Fittipaldi

  Driving, Speak, Wells

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• The gap between the two cars is 0.9 of a second, which is less than one second

  Murray Walker

  Two, Car, Gaps

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• You can't see a digital clock because there isn't one

  Murray Walker

  Digital, Clock, Motor

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• I had to go off the circuit twice to avoid him. I don't know what Rene Arnoux is doing in Formula One racing. He should be on the beach.

  Thierry Boutsen

  Beach, Should, Formulas

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• Your luck goes up and down like swings and roundabouts

  James Hunt

  Swings, Luck, Up And Down

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• Keke Rosberg is as calculating as a slot machine.

  Louis Stanley

  Machines, Calculating, Slot Machines

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• With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Two

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