Road Racing Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The thing I love about off-road racing is the pride in how abusive it is.

Jimmie Johnson

#3. Road racing is rock 'n roll; track is Carnegie Hall.

Marty Liquori

#4. In the U.S., we really have fallen short of road-racing facilities that have kept up with the times, unfortunately, but it's a fact.

Mario Andretti

#5. Road racing imitates life, the way it would be without the corruptive influence of civilization. When you see an enemy lying on the ground, what's your first reaction? To help him to his feet. In road racing, you kick him to death

Tim Krabbe

#6. 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

#7. People with more money than time buy $3,000 road racing bicycles with ultralight carbon frames to shave two pounds off the bike, regardless of the fact that they themselves are probably at least 10 pounds overweight.

Jacob Lund Fisker

#8. The reason I'm drawn to it is - both the off road racing and the motorcycles on the track - it takes a lot for me to quiet my brain and anything that requires 100% of my attention and focus I find very soothing and that is the closest I get to being content.

Dax Shepard

#9. Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it's just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

#10. Herb is the unification of mankind.

Bob Marley

#11. I grew up racing off-road trucks. They were on road courses with jumps. I made a name for myself in that style of racing.

Jimmie Johnson

#12. If I'm out trailriding, I have a favorite motorcycle. Riding on the road, I've got a favorite. If I'm jumping, I have a favorite, and if I'm racing, I have a favorite.

Evel Knievel

#13. There were no shortcuts, I realized. It took years of racing to build up the mind and body and character until a rider had logged hundreds of races and thousands of miles of road. I wouldn't be able to win a Tour de France until I had enough iron in my legs, and lungs, and brain and Heart.

Lance Armstrong

#14. If I had seen pictures of people eating each other on the wall, I would've told him I was into cannibalism.

Chelsea Handler

#15. Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.

Marshall McLuhan

#16. You will be lonely, but you'll become strong.

Marie Rutkoski

#17. 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

#18. In the professional world of leadership ambition and potential are the most excessive commodities.

Noel DeJesus

#19. My favorite workouts are the ones that don't feel like I'm working out! So, dance is a big one. Another is any kind of isolated moves, like ballet moves. Anything that works the glutes and legs - sign me up! And I like to blast the music. I have to get lost in the music. That helps.

Sarah Shahi

#20. Nothing's ever too fast. Maybe sometimes on the road some people are too fast if they don't know how to control the car, but in racing, the faster and more power and grip, the better it is.

Heikki Kovalainen

#21. Being on the road 33 weeks of the year, this becomes your community. You have to get to along with everybody. Racing becomes your life. You still have your friends at home, but you're with these people so much. You have to get along.

Tanner Berryhill

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

Mick Doohan

#23. Neither our psychology nor that of the unbelievers can impart life to them. Unless the Holy Spirit Himself performs the work, all is vain.

Watchman Nee

#24. Be able to laugh at difficulties.

Goswami Kriyananda

#25. 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