Quotes About Balance

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.

Racing can still be good even though you don't push others off the track.

You still need a good balance of what we do away from racing, and I feel like school, for me, has been that balance.

Gone are the days when you could lie on a beach between races and still be in good enough shape to compete. Gone are the days when simply wearing a brand on your firesuit was enough to justify the marketing expense of an Indy Car. Racing an Indy Car is only about a quarter of my life as a racing driver.

Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.

The fact that I'm racing, yes, is important, it's my passion, but, it's not my life, racing.

Just taking any kind of information you can gather, listening to the differences, the way they have gone about racing over the years, whatever they are willing to share with you it's important to hear those differing opinions and try to balance them out.

I stopped because I was tired of always racing.

With racing, there's not one thing you need to be really strong at, it's a combination. You need a good base of cardio, good core, good neck strength. I think core and neck are the most important, but it's certainly not my favourite. Neck training is pretty boring.

One of the most important principles I've learned is, every so often, just drop everything. Stop racing from one party to the next.

I learned that I was just getting too consumed by racing. That's all I used to do was think about it. You have to be able to turn it off. You have to make yourself stop, or you'll get burned out.

I've always known there's more to life than just racing for a long time.

Being married has helped my racing.

The racing team is the most important thing in the world to me. It's where all my eggs are fully in that basket. I go dance and do TV to try to make that world more important.

I'm very fortunate now in that I have my first love, which is drama and acting, for a living and I'm also managing to go racing as well.

The biggest thing I noticed growing up when I was doing BMX racing or playing rugby through to secondary school level, was seeing the parents who were so desperate to see their kids do well that they were almost living their lives through their kids and putting huge pressure on them to the point they weren't enjoying it.

There's too much that I'd like to do outside of racing to do this until I'm 50 or whatever.

Sometimes directors may not give you words, you know? They may not talk at all! You've just got to use your radar to figure out how you can get to the center and not lose yourself, but still be directed at the same time.

As much as you want to improve or help the team, as a centre-back your job is to go under the radar and keep the ball out of the net. If you do that and let the strikers get all the adulation and the headlines, then you're probably doing your job.

I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).

I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.

Actually, I never really look at myself as a real radical activist; I am more the conservative. I mean, the conservatives are trying to conserve; the radicals are destroying the planet.

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

The rage was in me, and if it wasn't for the rage, then I wouldn't know how to be calm. They feed off of each other. Just like when Malcolm X fed off Martin Luther King. They needed each other.