Quotes About Determination

Nobody had ever lost 462 races and then just won. But Dale Earnhardt Sr. had told me I had the ability, and that day, I knew I would.

You don't win NASCAR races without ability.

Nobody loves finishing second, as we've seen in past races. It's a sport that you want to get everything you can out of it, but sometimes it just doesn't work out.

I think I've shown that all the promises I made that I was going to win races were real and not bull.

I've won five races as a pro and become European champion in time-trial. I'm growing stronger as a person and as an athlete. I really didn't believe I could do this in my first year as a pro.

Early in the season, you're going into races feeling confident because you've done the work and that confidence gives you an extra five or 10 per cent.

I go out there to do my best week in and week out to win races.

I was confident that I not only could win races, but I could win the championship.

I know y'all have probably heard I lost a few races in a row before I won one, but I never gave up. Never believed I wasn't good enough.

If I'm winning races, it means I'm doing a good job. I've put down a marker now, against drivers with a lot more experience of the car than me. This is not going to be a one-off.

Running had become such an obsession that even when asleep, I would run races in my dreams.

Even in the middle of races, when things don't go well, I don't let it bother me nearly as much as I used to in the past.

I always said when I was in Late Models, all I ever wanted was when I pull out on the racetrack, people feel like I'm the guy to beat.

I can pump myself and beat my chest all I want going into a racetrack, but when you haven't had success there, that means you don't know what feel you are looking for.

I hate losing. It doesn't matter if it's racing or playing Ping-Pong - I hate it.

I am a racing driver and I am not just some guy who has had an accident and gone back to racing because that is what he enjoys.

If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.

Racing is what I live for, and it makes my world go around. Having said that, without the support of the diabetes community, I may not have gotten back into the race car after my diagnosis in October 2007.

Everybody is calling me crazy because I want to do the Ironman. I'm not doing it to win it. I'm doing it to finish it. I'm racing myself, not a particular field or group of people.

In racing you're not going to win every week, and we understand that.

Racing is something I've always wanted to do, so it's my dream come true.

Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.

I have a passion for racing, for competing and for fighting on the track.

There is clearly this gene inside me or this thing inside me that I've always had in my blood. I don't know, but since very little I've always wanted to be in racing cars, and that was without knowing who my dad was and what he was doing for a living.