Quotes About Racing Drivers

#1. The racing driver needs to be fed a diet of other racing drivers.

Carroll Smith

#2. Normally, racing drivers come from a long line of previous successful sports people.

Lewis Hamilton

#3. The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.

Enzo Ferrari

#4. Long afterwards I realized why some men, racing drivers and their like, become addicted to speed. There are those of us who never see death ahead, but eternally behind: in any moment that stops and thinks.

John Fowles

#5. I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#6. Racing drivers have balls, unfortunantly, none of them are crystal

David Coulthard

#7. I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.

Howard Barker

#8. For adventure is not outside a man; it is within.

David Grayson

#9. I don't think that American drivers going to NASCAR are taking the easy way out because as I said, the racing is amazing; it's just that it's easier to adapt to what you grow up with. American drivers grow up with NASCAR, they know NASCAR, and that's where they want to go.

Jacques Villeneuve

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

Ayrton Senna

#11. It is amazing how may drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.

Mario Andretti

#12. I make jokes about the fact that as a neuro-surgeon I shouldn't be required at a motor race because the drivers don't have any brains ... otherwise they wouldn't race.

Sid Watkins

#13. Street circuits mean that we are racing in the centre of roads that people use everyday, which is very cool for drivers, but it also makes it very easy to make a mistake, which adds more excitement for fans.

Sam Bird

#14. You don't get a mix of ovals and road/street course racing with this level of competition and speed anywhere other than Indy Car, and I think that's why it has remained a popular choice for so many young drivers.

Charlie Kimball

#15. Gilles was the fastest driver in the history of motor racing

Jody Scheckter

#16. The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses.

Mario Andretti

#17. For the rest, silence or good music, not much food, a lot of solitude, walks on the Heath, the time to think while others ... well, often fall apart. Not so bad, not so bad at all. Being queer and self-sufficient is the best present at this season.

Will Self

#18. Ukyo Katayama is undoubtedly the best Formula One driver that Grand Prix racing has ever produced

Murray Walker

#19. Fitness will be a major factor in the first race and I think that will play into the hands of drivers who have been racing recently, rather than people like me who haven't raced properly for a decade. I'am not one of the favourites to start with.

Nigel Mansell

#20. Some consumers buy products not because they are 'better" in any way, but simply because they are popular. What they're buying is not just a product, but also a piece of popularity itself.

Derek Thompson

#21. My No. 1 goal in racing was never to be the most popular driver.

Brad Keselowski

#22. The builder of the best racing car is not necessarily its best driver.

Hans Selye

#23. I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done.

Chief Joseph

#24. Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.

Colin McRae

#25. Words matter, he tells them and us, and we have a choice to use them for good or for ill. We can choose to be boastful, mouth off a snide comment, fire a well-placed jab. Or we can let our words be a reflection of God's grace, so the words that echo are of peace and healing, not brokenness and pain.

Richelle Thompson

#26. 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

#27. Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you.

Mahatma Gandhi

#28. We must respect natural energy in a way that not only honors the land, but the kinsmen, and the future as well.

Elizabeth Isaacs

#29. Ayrton Senna was an extraordinary racing driver. His skills, craft, subtlety and courage were of such magnitude that he dwarfed his generation of drivers.

Ron Dennis

#30. I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.

Kim Gordon

#31. In the old days drivers were fat and tires were skinny.

Jose Froilan Gonzalez

#32. The Showdown is a great way to bring attention to these historic Virginia tracks where many NASCAR drivers cut their teeth in stock car racing, including myself. Tracks like South Boston and Langley are the heart of the sport and draw a great crowd to our Showdown events.

Denny Hamlin

#33. 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

#34. Love your kid as much as you possibly can, and do what you need to do for your family because my situation and what I do for my kid may not work for you.

Drew Lachey

#35. I think I'm drawn to people who dream big, and both films have that. In 'Street Fight, Cory Booker wants to become Mayor of Newark, and in 'Racing Dreams,' three kids want to become NASCAR drivers.

Marshall Curry

#36. The European drivers have adapted to this circuit extremely quickly, especially Paul Radisich who's a New Zealander.

Murray Walker

#37. Beside the brand-ambassador elements of the modern racing driver, the evolution of the athlete has mandated that as drivers, we are very committed to fitness.

Charlie Kimball

#38. I wish they would pass a law where all Democrats and Republicans had to wear NASCAR racing suits, because if you look at the NASCAR drivers, it tells who their sponsors are. And if they do that, we could then become informed voters, because we would know who owns them.

Jesse Ventura

#39. I feel safe when I'm on the racetrack, I really do. I know that I'm surrounded by the best drivers in the world. That's something you can't say when you're driving down the interstate.

Sterling Marlin

#40. If I only had a nickel; I'd spend it on a dime.

Tim Wayne

#41. We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom. Not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability; it is human choices that move events. Not because we consider ourselves a chosen nation; God moves and chooses as He wills.

George W. Bush