Quotes About Achievement

I'm not racing through my division - I'm cleaning it out.

Getting back racing gave me the extra motivation in other areas to get back walking in my day to day life and just spurred me on.

When I turned 16, I got my driver's license like the rest of my classmates, but I also got an extra present: a two-day practice session in a Formula Ford: my first open-wheel racing car and the first step on the ladder toward becoming a professional driver.

This is what I have always done in my life, just racing and driving cars and go-karts fast.

Road racing has given me a good life, and I'm not being cocky, but I've brought something to racing, too.

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

I've always said that racing in New York is performing on the big stage.

I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.

I'm racing against me. As long as I come across the finish, I'll be okay.

New nemeses keep racing fresh, but I also find challenge in going longer, with only the distance as foe. I run my first 50-mile race, journey across the Grand Canyon and back, circumnavigate Mount St. Helens.

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

Don't get me wrong: I've had a lot of fortune, to come where I've come from, to be able to move to Europe, to go racing. But I had that fortune behind me. I grabbed it with both hands, and I made the best of it.

I remember my dad telling me that if I wanted to start racing motocross, I had to get a job and pay for it myself. So I did. As soon as I was able to drive myself to work, I got into racing motocross at age 15.

If somebody asks me to choose a biopic, it would be Narain Karthikeyan because I love racing.

It doesn't matter if it's cards, doesn't matter if I am racing home from dinner or something, I just want to be the first to do it. That's just kind of my mentality. That's been my mentality for a long time. It's kind of the way I was raised.

Many people talk about me entering the history books as the first female in 22 years and what a big moment it was. And I'm very flattered that I managed to do something historic, but in all honesty I was out there for me as a racing driver and to show everybody what Susie Wolff is capable of not to put my name in the history books.

I'd love a racing career, but as I didn't start until I was 28 I missed years of experience.

Throughout my whole racing career, I was always asked about being a woman in a man's world. Interestingly when you are in that world, there's no reason for it to be a man's world, there are successful women and I didn't find there to be any barriers to stop me from being successful.

I'm simply trying to go as far as I can go in racing.

When I decided to stop as a racing driver in 2015, I knew I wanted to continue with the challenge of competitive motorsport.

I think I did a pretty good job - particularly when I was racing with Hakkinen. It was maybe the first time that I have been challenging with the big boys, and I really enjoyed it.

I am living my childhood dream of racing in Formula 1 and I've put my whole life into achieving that dream so it is only natural for me to be giving absolutely everything I've got, to achieve success in racing and the day I no longer do that I will retire from racing immediately.

I'm competitive in everything I do. And that started young. Heck, I started racing bicycles when I was 3.

Because I hate to lose. I've always had that instilled in me since I was a child. Racing. A game. You want to be in first place every time.