Stirling Moss Quotes

#1. The ideal racecar will expire 100 yards past the finish line.

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#2. I grew up in the North of England at a time when Stirling Moss was a hero. Everyone wanted to be a racing driver.

Ridley Scott

#3. There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.

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#4. Motion is tranquility.

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#5. It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.

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#6. If everything is under control you are just not driving fast enough.

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#7. To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster.

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#8. Life can be how you choose or are governed by fate.

Steven Redhead

#9. I love to feel a racing car around me, to feel the way it holds me.
I love to make it do all that it was built to do, and then a little bit more.

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#10. Quite frankly, Kimi Raikkonen is the fastest driver in the world

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#11. It has taken me thirty three years and a bang on the head to get my values right.

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#12. Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls.

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#13. If God had meant for us to walk, why did he give us feet that fit car pedals?

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#14. In order to finish first, you first have to finish.

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#15. The best classroom of all times was about two car lengths behind Juan Manuel Fangio.

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#16. What would it take for you to go out with me?

Simone Elkeles

#17. To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.

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#18. Juan Fangio was the great man of racing, whilst Stirling Moss was the epitome of a racing driver.

Jackie Stewart

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

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#20. I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water, and was prepared to give up everything in life, he could do it.

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#21. It is better to go into a corner slow and come out fast, than to go in fast and come out dead.

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#22. The most difficult journey any of us ever take in our adulthood is the return to our parents' house. A home visit makes us recall all of the childhood events that formed us. Returning home reacquaints us with family members and our former self.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#23. You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it's the best state ever.

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#24. For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

Nic Pizzolatto

#25. A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.

David Bronstein

#26. Movement is tranquility.

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#27. It's hard to drive at the limit, but it's harder to know where the limits are.

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#28. The main thing is to be honest with yourself, know and recognize your limits and attain maximum achievement within them. I would for example get more satisfaction from climbing Snowdon, which I know I could, than from attempting Everest, which I couldn't.

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