The Racing Quotes

#1. Every good rowing coach, in his own way, imparts to his men the kind of self-discipline required to achieve the ultimate from mind, heart, and body. Which is why most ex-oarsmen will tell you they learned more fundamentally important lessons in the racing shell than in the classroom.

Daniel James Brown

#2. I'm a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I'm commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car.

Murray Walker

#3. The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.

Emerson Fittipaldi

#4. She looked up and saw, high in the sky beyond the racing black clouds, a ragged scrap of blue sky. Enough to make a cat a pair of trousers.

Rosamunde Pilcher

#5. Patience is the inclination to control the racing mind, which wants to jump ahead.

Balroop Singh

#6. I don't do much driving - about 5,000-6,000 miles a year. And most of that is to the airport and to the racing circuits.

Allan McNish

#7. I've had a passion for horses since I was very young - I used to sit on the floor in front of the races on television and pretend to be a jockey - and I first began reading the racing form on the set of 'The Partridge Family.'

David Cassidy

#8. There is a severe horse overpopulation crisis caused by overbreeding in the racing industry. It's time for that industry to accept responsibility for its castoffs and take dramatic action to protect a species that has so loyally served humankind.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#9. Every day I am part of my local town community, part of Rio Mesa High School Alumni, part of the racing world, part of the diabetes community worldwide.

Charlie Kimball

#10. In F1 too many things overshadow the racing. There is too much politics.

Kimi Raikkonen

#11. Like everyone else, I don't want it to get too far away from the racing because as time progresses, we're trying to get new fans and still keep the old fans and we've still got to have the racing.

Richard Petty

#12. Once in a great while I miss the racing, the feeling of winning. That rush. That adrenaline.

Tyler Hamilton

#13. When the race to develop becomes more furious as the Championship progresses, the racing will get better too, improving the entire experience for the fans.

Sam Bird

#14. It's a special feeling when you are blasting through the park along the Monza straights, and there are so many really enthusiastic fans there. I have to admit, though, it's not only the racing I'm looking forward to, as Italian cuisine is superb.

Romain Grosjean

#15. This will be the racing competition to end all racing competitions, .. I am extremely pleased to be working with Electronic Arts on this exciting opportunity giving music and gaming fans the chance to live the Need for Speed TM experience.

Jay Kay

#16. My focus is definitely on the racing.

Scott Dixon

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

Carroll Smith

#18. The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.

Davy Jones

#19. I believe in a world where love can still catch you off guard and where the best part is the falling stage. Those shy glances, the racing heart, flushed cheeks, and the butterflies? That's magic.
~Sarah Brocious on More Than Scars

Sarah Brocious

#20. 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

#21. When I did some Nascar races this year I noticed that I was increasingly missing the racing side, to race against each other, because in rallying you really race against the clock.

Kimi Raikkonen

#22. When he's here, it's like there's nothing to be worried or scared about. All the anxiety that is constantly coursing through me, all the racing thoughts, all the doubts, vanish into thin air.

S.J. Sawyer

#23. NASCAR racing provides more brand awareness and interest than any of the other major sports. The opportunities to build business-to-business relationships within the racing community are endless.

David Fricke

#24. For me the best part about the racing is to let all your aggression - whatever you've got inside you - out on the bike and just attack everything at all possible times.

Magnus Backstedt

#25. 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

#26. Water is peaceful. I am at rest. In the water, I am safe and pulled in where I can't get out. Everything slows down-the noise and the racing of my thoughts.

Jennifer Niven

#27. I am a racer. I'm not a race car driver. I am a racer. I race. That's what I do. I don't go on vacations. I don't take my family on vacations because I don't have a family. My family is the racing family.

Tony Stewart

#28. The racing is no different if it is day or night except you see the lights and the sparks. You run the race the same. The day or night doesn't really affect the race.

Ken Schrader

#29. I always enjoyed the training more than I did the racing. There was a high level of anxiety in racing that I did not enjoy. Training runs set me FREE. I could imagine the race in my mind and race as if it were the actual race.

Gerry Lindgren

#30. The racing that we've got in our industry right now is the best racing in the worldperiod.

Chad Knaus

#31. I'm kind of new to the racing game thing. I've always been, like, a shooter game kind of guy.

Kevin Dillon

#32. impinged on the normal nightly Holcomb noises - on the keening hysteria of coyotes, the dry scrape of scuttling tumbleweed, the racing, receding wail of locomotive

Truman Capote

#33. When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them. That month, I drove my stepdad's Thunderbird Super Coupe into Manhattan every day, and I would crank Cypress Hill as I flew around the city, racing the taxis.

Danny Masterson

#34. It is not that I don't recognize the danger in ski racing, but that I don't fear the consequences.

Bode Miller

#35. Don't let anyone set restrictions on your life ... You chart the course of your own future, not anyone else. Don't let people have such a power over you. Because if you're always racing against their standards, then what's the point of reaching a useless finish line?

Kale Lawrence

#36. I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

Jacky Ickx

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

Stirling Moss

#38. That's the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to see how wonderful your life it.

Kara Goucher

#39. I have a lot of great racing memories growing up in Europe as a young boy - playing with car parts on my dad's desk, watching the races on Sunday afternoons to try and spot him on TV, even having the chance to go to Formula 1 races where he was working.

Charlie Kimball

#40. every shadow of a thought or doubt.. crossed his face with the clarity of cloud shadows racing across the fields.

Dirk Bogarde

#41. What can we do to create shared prosperity? The answer is not to try to slow down technology. Instead of racing against the machine, we need to learn to race with the machine.

Erik Brynjolfsson

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

Jimmie Johnson

#43. Women are racing all the time to try to have a perfect house and perfect kids and be a perfect cook. Men, somehow, for whatever reason, seem to be better able to pick and choose, to focus on things they like and that are important to them, and let the other things go.

Debora Spar

#44. I would rather have racing without computers. The human side is forgotten, and instead of talking over what's happening and just trusting the feel of the driver, the data becomes almost more important.

Jacques Villeneuve

#45. I grew up in a culture of motorbikes. So I like racing just fine. Quite a lot, actually. That was when I was a boy in Australia. And I never really made the jump to cars after that.

Chris Hemsworth

#46. The car goes where the eyes go.

Garth Stein

#47. The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

Hunter S. Thompson

#48. Brett was damned good-looking. She wore a slip-over jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy's. She started all that. She was built with curves like the hull of a racing yacht, and you missed none of it with that wool jersey.

Ernest Hemingway,

#49. 'Le Mans' is the only racing movie that is totally realistic.

Jenson Button

#50. Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports ... all the others are games.

Ernest Hemingway,

#51. I guess it is the sense of personal satisfaction that racing gives you that I am probably going to miss, because in racing you get that feedback very quickly.

Bobby Rahal

#52. The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand.

Juan Manuel Fangio

#53. Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.

Jean Cocteau

#54. To have my mind racing and my heart beating fast over glorious possibilities is very close to the summit of life experience for me.

John Ortberg

#55. Gestures are all that I have.

Garth Stein

#56. I hope that wasn't because of what I said about the barrel racing," Kelsey said.
"Probably me," Cole said. "She's sensitive. And I'm not. I'll apologize later.

Maisey Yates

#57. I love speed. I love racing cars, whether it's on the streets or wherever. Don't tell the St. Louis police, though.

Nelly

#58. You know, when my dad was a racing fan in Australia he would follow Jack Brabham and sometimes only hear if he won two days after a race - when the result finally appeared in his newspaper. These days I can tweet something and it's all over the world in seconds.

Mark Webber

#59. Our mind stops racing when we take a nature walk or just look at the clouds that disintegrate at the horizon.

Balroop Singh

#60. The 2006 event logo combines the twin spires of Churchill Downs, one of the great signature elements in sports, with the greatest international day of Thoroughbred racing. We look forward to displaying the logo widely throughout the commonwealth of Kentucky, and to our international outlets.

Damon Thayer

#61. But I plan on dedicating specific training to track this winter for the next racing season.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

#62. What an electric thrill it sends up and down the spine, how it sets the heart racing: A Royal Romance! A Royal Wedding! The pomp and the pageantry!

Hamish Bowles

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

Jose Froilan Gonzalez

#64. The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation to succeed. It is my credo in all that I do in life from battling cancer to bicycle racing.

Lance Armstrong

#65. Sometimes you have to bring back only the steering wheel so the car owner will know that you're giving it all you have.

Mario Andretti

#66. I hate to take compromises with a racing car. The more standard a car is, the more compromises you have to take.

Michael Schumacher

#67. But so far, you know who's been violating the nuclear nonproliferation pact day and night? Those who signed it. Iran, Iraq, Libya and Iran violates it while calling for Israel's destruction and racing to develop atomic weapons to that end.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#68. Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.

Laura Hillenbrand

#69. Fact One: Races are won or lost in key moments. Fact Two: Success in the sport is, above all else, about enduring suffering.

Chris McCormack

#70. Racing through the field and hunting make the mind wild.

Laozi

#71. My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack.

Bode Miller

#72. I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.

Juan Manuel Fangio

#73. I am like glass to him, like water, Hannah thought to herself, alone now in the music room, heart racing. He sees through me, but how? Page: 97

Kathryn Lasky

#74. We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal - fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our kitchen or getting that promotion - that it will make us happy. But the pain of our insecurity is hidden in all that racing around.

Dani Shapiro

#75. Oh, yesterday, that one, we all cry out. Oh, that one! How rich and possible everything was! How ripe, ready, lavish, and filled with excitement
how hopeful we were on those summer days, under the clean, white racing clouds. Oh, yesterday!

Mary Oliver

#76. This tiny habitation on wheels, with bit parts of the living room, the washroom, and the fireplace, is a pathetic admission that human life is no more than this: an attempt to feel at home while racing towards oblivion. He

Yann Martel

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

Murray Walker

#78. I just bought a Lambourghini, I'm not even into racing with a windshield full of tickets cause I live right by the station.

Drake

#79. With 'Street Fight,' it took an urban mayoral election and found lots of complexity in there. The same with 'Racing Dreams.' I wanted to show complexity within this world that most documentary people don't know anything about.

Marshall Curry

#80. Racing is about discipline and intelligence, not about who has the heavier foot. The one who drives smart will always win in the end.

Garth Stein

#81. He would look so young. They were both so young. Tessa knew it was unusual to marry at seventeen and eighteen, but they were racing a clock.
The clock of Jem's life, before it wound down.

Cassandra Clare

#82. When you have been concentrating so hard on something you can't stop and your brain gets to racing like a fly-wheel with the weight gone. You'd better just not think.

Ernest Hemingway,

#83. As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto is fifth.

Murray Walker

#84. Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.

Vita Sackville-West

#85. It's all about racing on the track.

Adam Petty

#86. The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

John Steinbeck

#87. We're involved in racing because there's that element of competition. But there's that desire to push yourself beyond the natural comfort zone and the boundaries that are preset if you like, and to be better than the rest.

Allan McNish

#88. A horseman of the old school, a gentleman who never forgot to dip down and stake you when he win. He was more ashamed to be stingy than to be broke, so as long as he had two dollars you had one ...

Jaimy Gordon

#89. Even as I speak, in four hours time the Kyalami Grand Prix will roar away

Tony Lewis

#90. We are racing down Main Street. Arthur is right on the tail of a blck sedan with tinted windows that won't pull over. He slams the horn.
"Arthur," I say.
The car doesn't yield.
"Arthur," I say.
He hits the horn again, still close on the car's bummper.
"Arthur, our turn was back there.

Peter Canning

#91. Weave for the mighty chestnut
A tributary crown
Of autumn leaves, the brightest then
When autumn leaves are brown
Hang up his bridle on the wall,
His saddle on the tree,
Till time shall bring some racing king
Worthy to wear as he!

William Nack

#92. Then you have to answer to your car owner, you have to answer to the sponsor, you have to answer to all these folks why you're not racing. But that's the only way it will ever stop.

Greg Biffle

#93. This ain't the 4-H rodeo at the Pocahontas County Fair ... this is horse racing

Jaimy Gordon

#94. I have been running for so long. Since before all this even started. Even back in the Stilts, I was a runner. Avoiding my family, my fate, anything I didn't want to feel. And I am still racing now. From those who would kill me - and those who would love.

Victoria Aveyard

#95. And wolves of water broke from behind me. The soldiers whirled, fleeing. But my wolves were faster. I was faster as I ran with them, in the heart of the pack. Wolf after wolf roared out of the Sidra, as colossal as the one I had once killed, pouring into the streets, racing upward. I

Sarah J. Maas

#96. Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony. In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe; in golf it is yourself against the world: no human being stays your progress as you drive your ball over the face of the globe.

Arnold Haultain

#97. I couldn't beat Michael Phelps. A couple of years ago, I was racing against him and it just kinda dawned on me during the race that there was no chance I was gonna beat this guy. And so I said, if you can't beat him, find a race that he won't swim.

Mark Warkentin

#98. Yes! Yes! There's the attitude. Where was that girl during the race? Off getting sushi?

Doug Solter

#99. Ski racing is not about how much you weigh. If weight was the key, everybody would be sucking down food.

Lindsey Vonn

#100. I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.

Haile Gebrselassie