Racing Quotes - Page 32

• I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother's Morris Minor. I drove it around my father's farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Mother, Father, Years

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• I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Wife, Worry, Important

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• The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.

  Emerson Fittipaldi

  Sports, Car, Mind

  Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. August 2, 2002.

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• A racing driver has to be a good driver.

  Emerson Fittipaldi

  Drivers, Racing Driver

  Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. August 2, 2002.

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• There is one thing in this world that is dumber than playing golf. That is watching someone else playing golf. What do you actually get to see? Thirty-seven guys in polyester slacks squinting at the sun. Doesn't that set your blood racing?

  Peter Andrews

  Golf, Blood, Squinting

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• But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn't racing. Life is the metaphor for the race.

  Donald Antrim

  Cycling, Race, Missing

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• So much in life seems inflexible and unchangeable, and part of the joy of running and especially racing is the realization that improvement and progress can be achieved.

  Nancy Anderson

  Running, Joy, Progress

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• I love swimming because racing.

  Ryan Lochte

  Swimming, I Love Swimming

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• You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.

  Greg LeMond

  Sports, Love Yourself, Risk

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• The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Sports, Risk, Lines

  "Sebastian Vettel says Dan Wheldon's death highlights need for safety". www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2011.

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• Nothing ever got my pulse racing (in a good way) like hockey. Well, nothing except Beyonce, but that wasn't until I was twelve or so. Then, all of a sudden, it was like I opened my eyes one day and noticed that the world is full of beautiful girls, and I've had a hard time thinking about anything else ever since.

  Justin Bieber

  Beautiful, Girl, Eye

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• A good jockey doesn't need orders and a bad jockey couldn't carry them out anyway; so it's best not to give them any.

  Lester Piggott

  Horse, Order, Giving

  "Lester the legend back to claim the limelight" by Paul Weaver, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2007.

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• The best classroom of all times was about two car lengths behind Juan Manuel Fangio.

  Stirling Moss

  Two, Car, Juan

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• Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Race

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• The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it.

  Mark Russell

  Stripes, Way, Paint

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• Every time I told my cocker spaniel, Taffy, my very first dog, that we were going for a walk, she would launch into a celebratory dance that ended with her racing around the room, always clockwise, and faster and faster, as if her joy could not be possibly contained. Even as a young boy I knew that hardly any creature could express joy so vividly as a dog.

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

  Family, Dog, Boys

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (1998). “Dogs Never Lie about Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs”, Broadway Books

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• For me, the American Dream was to go racing; for others, it's to pursue whatever their goals may be.

  Rick Mears

  Dream, Goal, May

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• I want to keep pushing the limits to see what’s possible. That’s the nice thing about ski racing - no one is stopping you from going faster.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Nice, Stopping, Want

  Interview with Branden Peters, www.askmen.com. December 5, 2013.

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• We are racing toward a world of abundance, and we are going to be increasing the quality of life for everyone on this planet. The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.

  Peter Diamandis

  Opportunity, Quality, World

  "Peter Diamandis: Entrepreneur reaches to skies to benefit Earth" by Julian Guthrie, www.sfgate.com. July 5, 2014.

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• We do not invest in advertising... So racing is the best advertising for Ferrari.

  Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

  Ferrari, Advertising

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• Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that's really what it feels like.

  Mario Andretti

  Motor Racing, Big Families, Bigs

  Q&A with Russell Atkins, www.crash.net. May 19, 2007.

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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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• My mind is always racing, and always going and always working, and it's a gift and a curse.

  Puff Daddy

  Mind, Puff, Always Working

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• I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Death, Suicide

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• There have been other tracks that separated the men from the boys. This is the track that will separate the brave from the weak after the boys are gone.

  Jimmy Thompson

  Boys, Men, Track

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