Top 36 Surtees Quotes

#1. If he can't do it with Ferrari, well, he can't do it.

John Surtees

#2. No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat.

Robert Smith Surtees

#3. We couldn't get the car back until well after the end of the race and we had very little time for repairs.

John Surtees

#4. Everything you need to get that relaxed driving that brings consistency only comes with practice.

John Surtees

#5. It's hard to view myself sometimes as even in the same league as other musicians, mainly because there's so much music before me. I feel overinformed by different styles and different possibilities.

Ryan Adams

#6. Two halves make one whole. It's not important if those two halves are exactly the same.

Harmony Raines

#7. I'm a science fiction geek from birth - that's just who I am.

Joss Whedon

#8. The team did a superb pitstop. We had steadily improved.

John Surtees

#9. Some think that people come to a ball to do nothing but dance;
whereas everyone knows that the real business of a ball
is to look out for a wife,
to look after a wife,
or to look after someone else's wife ...

Robert Smith Surtees

#10. But I do not actually remember being a monster. I just remember wanting my own way.

Neil Gaiman

#11. It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more.

Robert Smith Surtees

#12. I left with nothing and needing to begin a new career.

John Surtees

#13. It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great deal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

Jose P. Rizal

#14. Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.

Robert Smith Surtees

#15. The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

Robert Smith Surtees

#16. There is no secret closer than what passes between a man and his horse

Robert Smith Surtees

#17. The supply of good fellows is by no means in excess of the demand. A man has only to hoist the flag of hospitality to insure a very considerable amount of custom.

Robert Smith Surtees

#18. No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket.

Robert Smith Surtees

#19. The level of our responsibility in things of God determines our level of prosperity

Sunday Adelaja

#20. Obviously the first sentiment is disappointment that we didn't get the car home and more disappointment that at the time that it stopped the car was in the lead.

John Surtees

#21. Better be killed than frightened to death.

Robert Smith Surtees

#22. A1 Great Britain has to look at the longer term.

John Surtees

#23. There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.

Robert Smith Surtees

#24. Our driver policy was partly dictated by who was available because of other contracts.

John Surtees

#25. Snake pulled out the digital camera and decided to play a joke on Otacon. He snapped a picture of the pinup, muttered, "Good," and closed the door.

Raymond Benson

#26. An It bag is an It bag, only if you're unlikely to possess it.

Plum Sykes

#27. The country has its charms-cheapness for one.

Robert Smith Surtees

#28. People seldom read a book which is given to them; and few are given. The way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price. No man will send to buy a thing that costs even sixpence without an intention to read it.

Samuel Johnson

#29. I get appalled when I see good drivers being left on the sidelines because they haven't come up with the half million to a million to put themselves in a competitive car.

John Surtees

#30. Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.

Robert Smith Surtees

#31. It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves.

Robert Smith Surtees

#32. More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

Robert Smith Surtees

#33. When is it too late to say it's still early for the Cubs? Try now. Their magic number is 1998, at least until it becomes 1999, but in lieu of a present, they offer you a future.

Bob Verdi

#34. The horse loves the hound, and I loves both.

Robert Smith Surtees

#35. Three things I never lends - my 'oss, my wife, and my name.

Robert Smith Surtees

#36. The team came together. We're looking forward to the next race.

John Surtees

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