Quotes About Auto Racing

#1. 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

#2. Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports ... all the others are games.

Ernest Hemingway,

#3. Someone I talked to who covered auto racing for a lot of years said she believed there was a 60 percent chance that Junior qualified with a car not quite up to code and people looked the other way because there's no points involved [with the pole].

Tony Kornheiser

#4. Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built.

Henry Ford

#5. Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

Dave Barry

#6. Boxing has always been a primarily urban pastime (whereas the defining suburban sport is auto-racing, in which the machine and its anonymous mechanics hold far greater importance than the driver). When white Americans left the cities, they left boxing as well.

A.J. Liebling

#7. What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle.

David Foster Wallace

#8. Only bullfighting, mountain climbing and auto racing are sports, the rest are merely games.

Barnaby Conrad

#9. Every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#10. She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.

Zadie Smith

#11. No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it

Desmond Tutu

#12. Be glad, be gracious, be grateful.

Paula Scanland

#13. William knows that science and magic are the same thing; magic is only science that hasn't been explained yet. Tonight he has made chemistry into magic for her.

Joshilyn Jackson

#14. I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.

Brian Molko

#15. Save the people you love, who cares about the rest of the world? - Uncle Jake

Michael Buckley

#16. Because everyone in the world has the power to edit, Wikipedia has long been plagued by the so-called edit war. This is like a house where the husband wants it warm and the wife wants it cool and they sneak back and forth adjusting the thermostat at cross purposes.

James Gleick