Top 100 Quotes About Racing
#1. The hunger and desire to go racing, however, never leaves your blood but the right opportunity has never really come along - until now that is.
Nigel Mansell
#2. I've made a lot of friends over the years through racing, but we weren't necessarily teammates.
Juan Pablo Montoya
#3. Racing, for me and for most people that watch it, it's about personalities.
Scott Dixon
#4. Think of lab rats racing through a maze, when you watch the sub-intelligent, dual-panel 'dialogue' ... Each rat runs with a designated, neatly bifurcated (Republican or Democratic) political orthodoxy. Each is a 'maze-bright' rat, and not the possessor and giver of any truth.
Ilana Mercer
#5. In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.
Laure Manaudou
#6. I didn't have statistics in my mind when I was racing. It was always a consequence - a nice consequence. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't the reason I was racing.
Michael Schumacher
#7. The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.
Nat King Cole
#8. It's not really about the competition. Your biggest challenge in a race is yourself. You're often racing against time. You're frequently running everything through your mind. You're always competing against preconceived ideas. It's not really the person next to you that you worry about.
Summer Sanders
#9. One of the most important principles I've learned is, every so often, just drop everything. Stop racing from one party to the next.
Ryan Holmes
#10. As if their actions were synchronized, they both jumped off the swings at the same moment, Jay racing toward the laddered steps as Violet rushed to reach the bottom of the slide.
Kimberly Derting
#11. Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.
Ted Ligety
#12. That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be.
Dale Earnhardt
#13. She's right, she hardly knows me. But still: Her heart is racing.
Veronica Roth
#14. I take my camera pretty much everywhere and try to get the most diverse photos possible, since I get to travel to all the greatest cities in the country and see iconic architecture and things like that. I also like racing photos - like motorcycles, cars, stuff like that.
C. J. Wilson
#15. My career in racing started at a very young age in California.
Jeff Gordon
#16. Racing's very much like the world of acting. You have your front runners and you have guys that are there for the long race, and you have other guys that block for other people, that are called supporting and character actors. It's all the same kind of situation.
Sylvester Stallone
#17. 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
#18. Boxing is not brutal, it's an art - God has gifted me with incredible handspeed as a tool to be used - what else am I supposed to do but fight? There ain't no hand-racing competitions.
Roy Jones Jr.
#19. The GTO is such an important car because it's a racing car and a touring car and that's pretty unusual.
Nick Mason
#20. I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.
Lisi Harrison
#21. Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve.
Tom Wolfe
#22. I think the best way is to forget about racing people and just find territory that's fresh.
Tom Jenkinson
#23. I feel comfortable around every driver out there and each driver is in charge of their own car, but you feel very secure racing the competition out there.
Kurt Busch
#24. I'm a casual F1 racing fan. I'm probably more of a stock car, NASCAR guy.
Robin Zander
#25. Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.
David H. Murdock
#26. I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one, but sometimes it's not so bad.
Lindsey Vonn
#27. I was just racing day by day. With Niki [Lauda], every race was to be on the top. He programmed his life to be champion. I enjoyed life. That was the maximum for me ...
Clay Regazzoni
#28. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a footballer and racing driver, like all kids.
Diego Della Valle
#29. I just love the American spirit of racing. It feels just great to get involved with that.
Kimi Raikkonen
#30. I love it in the States. The roads are big, the food is big. If it was possible to be in L.A. and still live my racing life, I would move now.
Lewis Hamilton
#31. If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.
Tom Wilson
#32. If summer racing didn't exist, I could go on holiday, yes, because nobody else would then be riding winners; but as long it goes ahead, I'll do it for the reason that I want to ride more winners than anyone else.
Tony McCoy
#33. In racing, I wanted to be a winner and to be a winner, you have to be willing to roll the dice.
Bobby Rahal
#35. Footballers are kept in such a bubble that horse racing is a release.
Gordon Taylor
#36. There wouldn't be any way I could have jumped into Cup with the success I had without the truck series. I wish I had more time to spend there. There are so many things the truck teaches you about aerodynamics, the professional ranks of racing, and working with a professional team.
Kurt Busch
#37. You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing.
Murray Walker
#38. Racing a marathon is a true and simple way to test the human spirit. Whether it goes perfectly or poorly you will certainly learn something about yourself and be a better person for having tackled the distance.
Blake Russell
#39. I know from sitting around with injuries how difficult life will be without racing and riding winners.
Tony McCoy
#40. On and on the Great River rolls, racing east.
Of proud and gallant heros its white-tops leave no trace,
As right and wrong, pride and fall at once unreal
Yet ever the green hill stay
To blaze in the west-waning day ...
Luo Guanzhong
#41. I attribute being a good center fielder to many things, but being outside with friends as a kid, running around and racing, that was a big part of it.
Torii Hunter
#42. Galaxies of the universe are racing away from us, but that they are doing so at a rate that is accelerating.
Bill Bryson
#43. I am grateful to Penske Racing for six very productive years. Together we won a lot of races - 16 in all. I'm proud that we won on a variety of tracks.
Kurt Busch
#44. Racing is an escape from society. From symbols of status, and self-perception. A chance to just be. For everyone to just be, with each other.
Erin Beresini
#45. Racing does to white guys what movies do to black guys.
Daniel Tosh
#46. A racing horse is not like a machine. It has to be tuned up like a racing car.
Christopher Poole
#47. Omg. My long time teammate on the Nadadores and team USA, Fran Crippen, passed away today while racing in Dubai.
Chloe Sutton
#48. What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle.
David Foster Wallace
#49. Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion.
Murray Walker
#50. It is a responsibility to be who you are and not let this sport [racing] change you and not let the good runs and success or the bad runs change you. You've got to be the same person all the time.
Trevor Bayne
#51. Normally, racing drivers come from a long line of previous successful sports people.
Lewis Hamilton
#52. It wasn't like she hadn't come across hot guys throughout the course of the last three years, so why was her heart racing? Why did she feel flushed?
Tami Lund
#53. If you don't know where you're going, stop racing to get there.
from Just Desert by M. T. Anderson
Chris Van Allsburg
#54. We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do.
Sean William Scott
#56. A mountian bike race is a constant hard effort for two to three hours. In road racing the efforts often come in surges. You ride easy for awhile then you have to make an extreme, hard effort. They are two different efforts, two different forms of suffering.
John Tomac
#57. I clutched my chest, feeling my heart racing. You treacherous, treacherous thing. What have you done?
Kiera Cass
#58. The sport of horse racing which, at its best, showcases the majestic beauty of this animal and the athleticism of jockeys, has reached an alarming level of corruption and exploitation.
Tom Udall
#59. I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.
Hunter S. Thompson
#60. So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest, most powerful societies in world history, like the United States and Canada, are racing full-speed ahead to destroy the environment as quickly as possible.
Noam Chomsky
#61. The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it.
Mark Russell
#62. When I grew up, I had a lot of fun ski racing with my friends. We pushed each other, and this made it easier to work hard.
Ted Ligety
#63. Gilles was the fastest driver in the history of motor racing
Jody Scheckter
#64. My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art.
Chantal Sutherland
#65. The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous.
Sebastian Vettel
#66. Only bullfighting, mountain climbing and auto racing are sports, the rest are merely games.
Barnaby Conrad
#67. Writing isn't about racing to the finish line; it's about finding joy in each step of the process. If a writer focuses on the journey, the destination will take care of itself.
Christopher Meyerhoeffer
#68. But since we've been fighting for first or second place, it's grabbed the media's attention. I enjoy racing them. They are a good team and when you beat them it's something to be proud of.
Larry Dixon
#69. I don't do ski racing to be famous.
Ted Ligety
#70. The next time you find yourself racing quickly down the street, know that you're not only running to your next appointment, you are literally running from contact with your truest feelings, deepest needs and most valuable insights.
Karen Salmansohn
#71. F1 is giving penalties for people making mistakes instead of for people driving dirty. And that is wrong. Mistakes happen. You run into each other: that's life, that's racing, and too bad.
Jacques Villeneuve
#72. Many great people had been considered to be boring, like Nigel Mansell, but anyone who had read the racing driver's autobiography, "Clutch Down, Dick Out", would know that perception was way off the mark.
Mark Jackman
#73. He lied, Jenny thought, racing up the steps. He changed the rules and he lied. Sometimes you can't return good for evil; sometimes evil simply has to be stopped.
L.J.Smith
#74. I want your hands on my head."
I nod and edge back to make room for him. "Does it calm your racing thoughts?"
He shakes his head, then takes my hand and spreads it open over his wide chest, his voice textured as he traps my gaze with his. "It calms me here.
Katy Evans
#75. I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.
Major Taylor
#76. Starks of Winterfell: a grey direwolf racing across an ice-white field.
George R R Martin
#77. If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens.
Bert Sugar
#78. One day you're racing about the business of life, harried but vital, a part of its machinery. Then gradually but inexorably you are left out, until one day you find the machinery tearing along without you - and nobody even notices.
Marjorie Holmes
#79. I think driving in New York is a great experience. A lot more racing techniques go into it than anyplace else I've ever driven. There basically are no lanes.
Jeff Gordon
#80. And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing.
Murray Walker
#81. Women don't get the same opportunities that men get in racing, so they don't get to learn race craft.
Jenson Button
#83. We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.
John Hurt
#84. Time has stopped; time is racing. Lochie's lips are rough yet smooth, hard yet gentle. His fingers are strong: I feel them in my hair and on my neck and down my arms and against my back. And I never want him to let me go.
Tabitha Suzuma
#85. 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
#86. Juan Fangio was the great man of racing, whilst Stirling Moss was the epitome of a racing driver.
Jackie Stewart
#87. 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
#88. Racing is not football or baseball or basketball where you can do it yourself. If you're good in high school, you just shine. (But in racing) you have to have a family behind you.
Trevor Bayne
#89. Time was like that, though - racing forward when she wanted it to slow down, then crawling to a stop when she could least bear it.
Aprilynne Pike
#90. Really racing is about the horses, not me. You can't do it without the horses, and they are the big players as are the lads who look after them, and they rarely get a mention.
Tony McCoy
#91. After hurting myself like that, I could not go back immediately to racing. I was in no condition, mentally or physically. That helped me to strengthen myself to go through the hard times that were ahead with my business, and to be successful.
Nelson Piquet
#92. In the hurtling pronghorn, the vanished predators have left behind a heartrending spectacle. Through the smoking displays of wild abandon runs a desperate spirit, resigned to racing pickup trucks in its eternal longing for cheetahs.
William Stolzenburg
#93. But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn't racing. Life is the metaphor for the race.
Donald Antrim
#94. Bending from side to side helps you avoid obstacles in racing.
Kirejan Javier
#95. I can't help my mind skipping over the here-and-now and racing on, to what might come next. Consequence and regret and other might-have-beens: plotting out every angle and scenario, knowing all along that the path I take means missing something else.
Abigail Haas
#97. After karting in Venezuela, I came to Europe in 1998 to compete in international kart races, which was great for me to get experience racing outside my country. After consistently being at the top, I decided to move to Italian Formula Renault.
Pastor Maldonado
#98. The bike that I've been riding is a Big Ripper. It' an SE Racing 29 bike that Famous [Stars & Straps] did a collaboration with and Travis [Barker] gave to me. So that's the bike that I cruise around on and bunny-hop on.
Matt Skiba
#99. Ironman distance triathlons are a true test of oneself as a whole. Each race is a test of physical, mental and spiritual toughness that I haven't found in any other type of racing. At the end of the day, challenging myself on all levels is what it's about for me.
Timothy O'Donnell
#100. I've been racing for my whole life, and I know what I need to do to be able to win.
J. R. Celski
