Allan Mcnish Quotes

#1. Mars red gladiolus

Henri Cole

#2. People often call fighting discrimination being "PC" because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.

DaShanne Stokes

#3. His supervisor, a well-liked ranger by the name of Dick McLaren, gave Randy a line of advice to which he would adhere for the rest of his career: 'The best way to teach the public isn't with a citation, it's with communication.

Eric Blehm

#4. My motto is to do everything absolutely flat out and to the best of your ability.

Allan McNish

#5. Especially with sports cars, when you have got so many cars on the track with various degrees of competitiveness, then something will happen. It's the nature of racing, the law of averages. If you want to be a front-runner then you are going to have to push very hard, and collisions can happen.

Allan McNish

#6. What I like is when you can hear the heart and soul of music and can feel the energy coming out of it, because that's what it's like when you drive.

Allan McNish

#7. I clipped a Ferrari, hit the gravel trap at a fair old speed, which lifted the car up into the barrier, and then rolled a few times. I had no injuries or anything - I just had to wait for the marshals to right the car before I could get out.

Allan McNish

#8. Real life does not come naturally. It is counterintuitive. It is a skill we have to learn. That's because the way to real life is not something we get, but something we give.

J.P. Moreland

#9. I just feel we are extremely lucky that when we wake up, we get to go to work and do something we love. Honestly, we can't call it work. We're living the dream, really. If you start thinking about the dangers too much, it's time to stop.

Allan McNish

#10. The main factors in terms of how tiring a season can be are governed by the number of races and the length of time between the first and the last.

Allan McNish

#11. As a driver you enjoy winning races, and if you win in the easiest way possible, fine, but in reality we all remember the fights to the end, the nip and tuck stuff.

Allan McNish

#12. To be a racing driver it's essential you have very good eyesight, and that's especially relevant at night. Your senses are heightened, you're travelling over 200mph, you need to focus on that 110-metre braking point and you have to have absolute faith and commitment in your driving.

Allan McNish

#13. We're involved in racing because there's that element of competition. But there's that desire to push yourself beyond the natural comfort zone and the boundaries that are preset if you like, and to be better than the rest.

Allan McNish

#14. I think that texting and driving is a 100 percent no-go. I think it should be banned everywhere because you cannot be focused on looking ahead, in the mirrors, being aware of what's around you, and to type on a small keyboard and a small screen.

Allan McNish

#15. When it's wet, you're much more tense on the steering wheel, you have to dance with the throttle and the brakes more. Each lap is a different scenario, so you're really on the edge of your nerves. One mistake could cost you the entire race.

Allan McNish

#16. It was not until I started racing for car manufacturers that I found a car I could really get attached to. I am the son of a car dealer, so up until then, cars just came and went.

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#17. I have been listening to sport and watching sport on the BBC since I was a tiny boy.

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#18. I think music can really affect people's emotions and, when I am about to get into a race car, I definitely listen to music with a good beat - that's when you've got the adrenalin pumping. And the time before you go into a race weekend, you have a lot of emotion and adrenalin, and a lot of focus.

Allan McNish

#19. I have been waiting to win a world championship since 1985. I've had three cracks at a world title - in karting, I finished third at Le Mans; that hurt because it was very close, but then in Formula One there wasn't really an opportunity to finally crack it, so it's third time lucky.

Allan McNish

#20. I don't do much driving - about 5,000-6,000 miles a year. And most of that is to the airport and to the racing circuits.

Allan McNish

#21. Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses.

Anne Sexton

#22. It is hard to be number one, and it is even harder to stay there because everyone is trying to knock you off the top.

Allan McNish