Top 100 Pod Racing Quotes
#1. Vacations in my family are rare events squeezed between races. I can count them on one hand, and even those amount to only a few hours each. Shopping in Los Angeles. Sinking my toes into snow white sand in Florida. They are tiny slips of memory strung around horses.
Mara Dabrishus
#2. I'm racing against me. As long as I come across the finish, I'll be okay.
Ruben Studdard
#3. If CART continues on, it's just going to drag all of open-wheel racing down.
Michael Andretti
#4. Racing is a great sport, but we need people to come along and see that for themselves. Maybe they're not used to going racing or haven't been before, but I think people get a taste for it; they do come back.
Tony McCoy
#5. As the son of a racing car designer and mechanical engineer, I was exposed to motorsports from day one.
Charlie Kimball
#6. If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.
Gilles Villeneuve
#7. We have been involved in racing for so long, it is astonishing we were not born with hooves.
Daniel Wildenstein
#8. Brett was damned good-looking. She wore a slip-over jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy's. She started all that. She was built with curves like the hull of a racing yacht, and you missed none of it with that wool jersey.
Ernest Hemingway,
#9. Some younger drivers didn't grow up seeing racing as being dangerous. They break their little finger, and they are surprised. It's like, 'Be happy it's only that.'
Jacques Villeneuve
#10. So maybe I love you more than baking and racing combined. What? You want an award or something?
Amanda Lance
#11. Good health, peace of mind, being outdoors, camaraderie - those are all wonderful things that come to you when running. But for me, the real pull of running - the proverbial icing on the cake - has always been racing.
Bill Rodgers
#12. I love horse racing, I play golf, and I love travelling.
Ian Rush
#13. The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.
Hunter S. Thompson
#14. Frentzen is taking, er, reducing that gap between himself and Frentzen.
Murray Walker
#15. While a man is racing he must hate himself and his competitors.
Percy Cerutty
#16. His head seems to bulge with the story; it is a little scary, the way it needs to get out. He feels that if it cannot escape by way of his racing hand that it will pop his eyes out in its urgency to escape and be concrete.
Stephen King
#18. From upstair there was a new sound the only thing that could stop me in this endless instant, a frantic pounding, a racing beat, a changing heart.
Stephenie Meyer
#20. Far above him a few white clouds were racing windily after a pale gibbous moon. Drink all morning, they said to him, drink all day. This is life!
Malcolm Lowry
#21. When I finished with him [Maradona] he was like a racing colt.
Jimmy Burns
#22. The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race.
Bob Marley
#23. All of my free time is made up of motor sports endeavors, be them motorcycles or off-road racing or track days. I just love anything with an engine. That is one of my main loves. Obviously, my other well-known love is Kristen Bell.
Dax Shepard
#24. The quality of racing continues to excel with starters increasing to 1496,.
Christopher Nolan
#25. A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.
Mario Andretti
#26. 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
#27. Speaking from memory, I don't know how many points Nelson Piquet has ...
Murray Walker
#28. Why did I take up racing? I was too lazy to work and too chicken to steal
Kyle Petty
#29. She looked up and saw, high in the sky beyond the racing black clouds, a ragged scrap of blue sky. Enough to make a cat a pair of trousers.
Rosamunde Pilcher
#30. This 51 Phoenix Racing team, I love them to death. They've got my back, I've got theirs.
Kurt Busch
#31. If NASCAR racing gets any more exciting, I may not be able to stand it.
Roger Staubach
#32. I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
Danica Patrick
#33. 'Le Mans' is the only racing movie that is totally realistic.
Jenson Button
#34. He felt his own fear racing through his body, and it was with trembling hands that he read the Eel's message.
Steven Erikson
#35. Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright.
Neil Young
#36. Balance, or drivability, and the ability to accelerate while cornering are more important than maximum cornering power - every time. Until you reach teh top levels of professional motor racing you will achieve more results by optimizing the package that you have than by redesigning it.
Carroll Smith
#37. I think our dad and our mom have always told us that in racing we're a team, and we work together, and that's how it's always been, and I think that's how it's always going to be.
Amber Cope
#38. Tombay's hopes, which were nil before, are absolutely zero now
Murray Walker
#39. I'm a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I'm commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car.
Murray Walker
#40. I had a bike as a kid, and when I worked in Manhattan - I had a 10-speed - I rode from downtown to 68th and Madison for my day job. I knew about fighting traffic, but nothing about racing.
Dennis Christopher
#41. I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.
Barry Sheene
#42. As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career.
Hermann Maier
#43. The funny thing is that people see one film like 'Racing Stripes' or 'Ice Princess' and all of a sudden, slip me into this category of 'that's what she's always involved in.'
Hayden Panettiere
#44. I remember all the entertainment shows showing pictures of Nicole Scherzinger annnnd that racing driver she was hanging around with.
Bob Varsha
#45. My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.
Bill Rodgers
#47. 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
#48. I think you grow up wanting to be a racing driver. Then it dawns on you that it's not going to happen.
Dominic Cooper
#49. Making ski racing fun and engaging for kids and families is an exciting opportunity and a real passion of mine.
Lindsey Vonn
#50. On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program.
Danica Patrick
#51. I want to be the best race horse around when I grow up, Mama.
You can be, Charlie, as long as you are willing to try your best and not give up when you have a bad day.
Deanie Humphrys-Dunne
#52. Racing cars which have been converted for road use never really work. It's like making a hard core adult film, and then editing it so that it can be shown in British hotels. You'd just end up with a sort of half hour close up of some bloke's sweaty face.
Jeremy Clarkson
#53. It is glorious fun racing down the Hump, but you can't do it on windy days because then you are not there, but the fallen leaves do it instead of you. There is almost nothing that has such a keen sense of fun as a fallen leaf.
J.M. Barrie
#54. Armed with my positive attitude and inherent stubborn nature, I keep my mind focused and my life moving forward. I stop to rest, pout and even cry sometimes, but always, I get back up. Life is giving me this challenge and I will plow through it, out of breath with my heart racing if I have to.
Amy B. Scher
#55. That's the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to see how wonderful your life it.
Kara Goucher
#56. The ideal racecar will expire 100 yards past the finish line.
Stirling Moss
#57. Racing shirts should be sold on big, thick rolls like paper towels.
Brad Alan Lewis
#58. I hug him. I forget about my fears, about who I am and who he is, and I hug him. He keeps a tight grip on me like I'm his last hope, like I'm the only thing holding him together. We are a mingle of limbs, a frantic mess of intertwined heartbeats racing one another.
Tammy Faith
#59. I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
Jacky Ickx
#60. It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance.
Jackie Stewart
#61. It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral.
Leland Ryken
#62. Why waste your final hours racing about your cage denying you're a squirrel?
Ray Bradbury
#63. Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
Damon Hill
#64. He seemed to be a pure racing animal, which explained two of his other peculiar habits: at the start of every race, he'd let out a bloodcurdling shriek, and after he won, he'd roll in the
Christopher McDougall
#65. She wanted to be with him, and though the realization frightened her, it also set her heart racing with anticipation. When she was with Nick, she was a different woman. Some of his glitter fell onto her and made her feel beautiful and sparkly and more alive.
Kristin Hannah
#66. It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on
Valentino Rossi
#67. Thomas is racing for it, but McCovey is there and can't get his glove to it. That play shows the inexperience, not on Thomas' part, but on the part of Willie McC ... well, not on McCovey's part either.
Jerry Coleman
#68. My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.
Hermann Maier
#69. Racing is licking your opponent's plate clean before starting on your own
Tim Krabbe
#70. Don't let anyone set restrictions on your life ... You chart the course of your own future, not anyone else. Don't let people have such a power over you. Because if you're always racing against their standards, then what's the point of reaching a useless finish line?
Kale Lawrence
#71. It is not that I don't recognize the danger in ski racing, but that I don't fear the consequences.
Bode Miller
#72. Racing and hunting madden our minds.
Lao-Tzu
#73. When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them. That month, I drove my stepdad's Thunderbird Super Coupe into Manhattan every day, and I would crank Cypress Hill as I flew around the city, racing the taxis.
Danny Masterson
#75. The tires are called wets, because they're used in the wet. And these tires are called slicks, because they're very slick.
Murray Walker
#76. Day baseball is now dead for all practical purposes. Sooner or later, the game will be played in its entirety at night, and as I've said before, then baseball will be squarely in the amusement, the entertainment business along with wrestling, midget auto racing and the trotting tracks.
Larry MacPhail
#77. I've always known there's more to life than just racing for a long time.
Casey Stoner
#78. I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.
Patrick Dempsey
#79. I like racing. I love the speed and I'm a very kinetic person in terms of filmmaking. I love the movement of film more than anything else.
George Lucas
#80. When Ron Howard does 'Rush,' he has to learn and steep himself in F1 culture and European racing culture, and that's part of the fun of the gig. You learn to learn. Your real skill as a director is being a learner and an observer. You're constantly learning another thing in context.
Jon Favreau
#81. Every good rowing coach, in his own way, imparts to his men the kind of self-discipline required to achieve the ultimate from mind, heart, and body. Which is why most ex-oarsmen will tell you they learned more fundamentally important lessons in the racing shell than in the classroom.
Daniel James Brown
#82. My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute. One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
Simone De Beauvoir
#83. I grew up in a culture of motorbikes. So I like racing just fine. Quite a lot, actually. That was when I was a boy in Australia. And I never really made the jump to cars after that.
Chris Hemsworth
#84. I would rather have racing without computers. The human side is forgotten, and instead of talking over what's happening and just trusting the feel of the driver, the data becomes almost more important.
Jacques Villeneuve
#85. The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts.
Ferdinand Porsche
#86. In England the more horses a nobleman has, the more popular he is. So long as the English are devoted to racing, Socialism has no chance with you.
Otto Von Bismarck
#87. A horse doesn't know whether the rider on his back wears a dress or pants away from the track.
Diane Crump
#88. With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is.
Murray Walker
#90. Women are racing all the time to try to have a perfect house and perfect kids and be a perfect cook. Men, somehow, for whatever reason, seem to be better able to pick and choose, to focus on things they like and that are important to them, and let the other things go.
Debora Spar
#91. The thing I love about off-road racing is the pride in how abusive it is.
Jimmie Johnson
#92. I grew up in the North of England at a time when Stirling Moss was a hero. Everyone wanted to be a racing driver.
Ridley Scott
#93. The gap between the two cars is 0.9 of a second, which is less than one second
Murray Walker
#94. What can we do to create shared prosperity? The answer is not to try to slow down technology. Instead of racing against the machine, we need to learn to race with the machine.
Erik Brynjolfsson
#95. Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough?
Murray Walker
#97. There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
Ernest Hemingway,
#98. There is no average reason for a person getting involved in racing.
Bruce McLaren
#99. every shadow of a thought or doubt.. crossed his face with the clarity of cloud shadows racing across the fields.
Dirk Bogarde
#100. I have a lot of great racing memories growing up in Europe as a young boy - playing with car parts on my dad's desk, watching the races on Sunday afternoons to try and spot him on TV, even having the chance to go to Formula 1 races where he was working.
Charlie Kimball
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