Quotes About Racing

I've been in motorsport my whole life since I was eight years of age.

When I race my mind is full of doubts - who will finish second, who will finish third?

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

I started racing go-karts. And I love karts. It's the most breath taking sport in the world. More than F1, indeed, I used to like it most.

Racing has become more show time; we've got to have something new to create interest in the sport.

Normally, racing drivers come from a long line of previous successful sports people.

Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure.

I'm from West Virginia. If you didn't know what was happening in NASCAR, you were on the outside. NASCAR is a big league sport, but it's still also country and redneck.

The guys have a lot of good cars built up. We're going to do some more testing before we go back to Las Vegas and try to win at Vegas again. We need to get off to a quick start.

The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.

She sighed. how can I care about racing when I just helped determine the fate of worlds? I just...can't anymore. You're going to get killed. She looked across at him, stars in her eyes. But what a grand way to die.

When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.

I was just racing day by day. With Niki [Lauda], every race was to be on the top. He programmed his life to be champion. I enjoyed life. That was the maximum for me.

I'm full of restlessness. Not lonely, exactly - my head is racing with ideas. But it is that old treacherous feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, and I'm left out.

Pressure is always a part of a racing driver's life, but my father helped me a lot on my way to becoming a F1 driver.

I watch the stock-car races sometimes but you don't see anything but cars. I know about Fireball Roberts though and I watched an interview with Tiny Lunn. He is a huge dead-serious innocent-faced boy who must have made it big, he had just won the one in Jacksonville when I saw him but he never smiled once.

It is not only about just doing a fast lap. You also need to use your brains and be clever, and I think that is what makes you a complete driver at the end.

I like fast cars, and I always have.

The lighter the car, the faster it goes.

Generally, when I have a faster car, I just drive around the lapped cars that I'm lapping.

We put fate in other people's hands there at Talladega. You have 42 other racers and sometimes it doesn't work out for you.

Any person I idolise, or I really admire their work, I want to beat them... For me, going through my years, I made sure to idolise myself... So when you're in a race, you have to make sure that you think you are the favourite to win. You have to have that confidence.

The heart of Ferrari is winning in F1. I don't want to see our drivers in 7th and 12th place.

I know I won't be the first one to say this, but Suzuka is definitely my favourite circuit of the year.