Racing Quotes - Page 33

• Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.

  Janet Guthrie

  Effort, Use, Percent

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• What's behind you doesn't matter.

  Enzo Ferrari

  Motivational, Motor Racing, Car

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• He had no money and no home; he lived entirely on the road of the racing circuit, sleeping in empty stalls, carrying with him only a saddle, his rosary, and his books...The books were the closest thing he had to furniture, and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Book, Home, Sleep

  "Seabiscuit: An American Legend". Book by Laura Hillenbrand, 2001.

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• I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.

  Barry Manilow

  Break Up, Crazy, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is no average reason for a person getting involved in racing.

  Bruce McLaren

  Average, Reason, Persons

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• Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Running, Focus

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• To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Brain, Pieces, Racks

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1993). “The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes”, p.789, Wordsworth Editions

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• If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.

  Usain Bolt

  Thinking, May, Littles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If they did, surely they wouldn't be racing to begin with. Or is it a simple failure of imagination? One doesn't like to think such a rudimentary failing could bring about the end, yet...

  Stephen King

  Simple, Thinking, Race

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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• Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.

  James Dyson

  Car, Design, Exciting

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• That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Winning, Want, Strategy

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• I know this much about racing in the rain. I know it is about balance. It is about anticipation and patience... [it is also] about the mind! It is about owning one's body... It is about believing that you are not you; you are everything. And everything is you.

  Garth Stein

  Rain, Believe, Mind

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  If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver.

  Ayrton Senna

  Gaps, Drivers, Ifs

  Interview at the 1990 Australian Grand Prix, November 1990.

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  As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

  Ayrton Senna

  Determination, Mind, Natural Instinct

  "Ayrton Senna: Racing Is in My Blood". Documentary, 1992.

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• I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Running, Real, Home

  Interview with Jim White, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2002.

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• Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

  Greg LeMond

  Sports, Cycling, Insightful

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• If I was racing in 2015, no, I wouldn't do it again because I don't think you have to. If you take me back to 1995, when doping was completely pervasive, I would probably do it again.

  Lance Armstrong

  Thinking, Take Me Back, Doping

  "Lance Armstrong: If I Had To Do It All Over, I’d Probably Cheat Again" by Maxwell Strachan, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2015.

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• My mind is always racing.

  Justin Bieber

  Mind

  "Justin Bieber On His Musical Inspirations, His Fans, And Trying To Be A Regular Kid". Vanity Fair Interview, www.vanityfair.com. January 4, 2011.

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• I just always dreamed of racing cars, but I didn't think I could do it as a living.

  Kurt Busch

  Thinking, Car, Race Car

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• Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

  Ayrton Senna

  Blood, Standing Out, Formula 1

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• The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.

  Davy Jones

  Mafia, Going Away, Bugs

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• Racing serves as a formal demonstration of your ability to ride the three-headed monster. The first monster is your physical preparation-lifting weights for strength, running for endurance, working on your technique. The second monster is your mental preparation-all our jabbering about humility, battling for your life, taking complete responsibility for the outcome. The last monster is your X Factor, your soul, your courage. Taken altogether, I call this three-headed monster the Process of Winning.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Running, Taken, Responsibility

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• Mansell can see him in his earphone.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Motor

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• Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.

  Dan Brown

  War, Leader, Different

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.348, Random House

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• I'm losing my mind without you.” His lips were gliding down my neck, his tongue stroking over my racing pulse. He sucked on my skin and pleasure radiated through me. “I can’t think. I can’t work or sleep. My body aches for you. I can make you want me again. Let me try.

  Sylvia Day

  Sleep, Thinking, Mind

  FaceBook post by Sylvia Day from Apr 23, 2013

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