Quotes About Racers

#1. I had professional stunt racers teaching me how to drive.

Devon Aoki

#2. The race was on; the souls of the racers were in it; over them bent the myriads.

Lew Wallace

#3. Bright-shirted racers of the Tour de France zoomed by like fantastically bicycling macaws.

Joseph O'Neill

#4. As he leans over to kiss me good night, I do not regret having graduated from the amorous sprints of our youths. Marriage is a long-distance course, and reading aloud is a kind of romantic Gatorade formulated to invigorate the occasionally exhausted racers.

Anne Fadiman

#5. Never mind the track. The track is for punks. We are Road People. We are Cafe Racers.

Hunter S. Thompson

#6. From the sky, everything looked fake. The buildings were doll houses. The cars were Matchbox racers. People scuttled about, but they weren't really people anymore. Their little lives meant absolutely nothing from this altitude.

P.S. Baber

#7. What sets these - and all - racers apart from less daredevilish mortals is their complete lack of fear and their joy of doing something on the edge. They love to speed because it is dangerous.

Peter Golenbock

#8. I ski very aggressively, and the angles that I create with my body are similar to some of the male racers.

Lindsey Vonn

#9. With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.

Ray Bradbury

#10. A lot of racers have some of their best days when they're sick.

Ted Ligety

#11. But what kind of race is it, when the racers never let go of each other's hands, and the winner pulls the loser laughing over the finish line?

Orson Scott Card

#12. I couldn't begin to name names ... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet ... and some of the nicest as well.

John Oates

#13. Tourists and locals are watching from sidewalk cafes. Non-racers. The emptiness of those lives shocks me.

Tim Krabbe

#14. I lean on a lot of drivers. I have a dirt racing background so I gravitate towards asking for advice from drivers who also dirt race, people like Clint Bowyer since dirt racers seem to have a similar driving style and like the car set up similarly.

Austin Dillon

#15. In rowing as in life, there are competitors and there are racers. The competitor works hard and rows to his limit. The racer does not think of limits, only the race.

Jim Dietz

#16. Today was the day to win again, Javlei held his axe in hand he had killed many people with it he didn't care that he had blood on his hands. He had won the STEDFARST races every year so far by being ruthless butchering other racers as he went.

Charon Lloyd-Roberts

#17. Racers never lose their skill, they just lose the will to use it, and until they reach that point they keep getting faster.

Mat Oxley

#18. I use to think all road racers were nuts. You know racing around a track at that speed.

Mick Doohan

#19. For 50 years bike racers have been taking stimulants. Obviously we can do without them in a race, but then we will pedal 15 miles an hour (instead of 25). Since we are constantly asked to go faster and to make even greater efforts, we are obliged to take stimulants

Jacques Anquetil

#20. Helene and Mr. Bexley peel out again like Wacky Racers.

Sally Thorne

#21. The only healing I've ever known is getting back in that race car - for all us racers.

Clint Bowyer

#22. There are two types of racers- cheaters and losers.

Smokey Yunick

#23. I'm oftentimes asked, What difference does it make to America if people are dying of malaria in a place like Ghana? It means a lot. It means a lot morally, it means a lot from a
it's in our national interest.

George W. Bush

#24. I never thought of retiring. I'm a racer.

Connie Kalitta

#25. I am not a driver, I am a racer.

Stirling Moss

#26. I don't think I am a star; I consider myself like any other girl who is of my age. Others may be working in office and doing different jobs. Similarly I don't think I am doing something different ... I am also working.

Deepika Padukone

#27. Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain.

Dorothy Parker

#28. We don't need guns, we got dogs!

T.A. Uner

#29. He explains that the salty smell of our meal had attracted them and to make his yaks move away from us, he empties a bag of salt further up the slope. Gracefully, the yaks walk away.

Gerda Pauler

#30. Not like Homer would I write,
Not like Dante if I might,
Not like Shakespeare at his best,
Not like Goethe or the rest,
Like myself, however small,
Like myself, or not at all.

William Allingham

#31. I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.

F. Murray Abraham

#32. Life is directly proportional to happiness and sadness.

Santosh Kalwar

#33. One of the things that I wound up loving about being involved with a bike racer was learning how to bike and how that really creates solitary time for you to reflect on things and nobody can get a hold of you.

Sheryl Crow