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Quotes About Racing

I know from sitting around with injuries how difficult life will be without racing and riding winners.
~ Tony McCoy
You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.
~ Ayrton Senna
To come in and win three races already this year and maybe set a record by winning four is pretty unique. But guys like Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace and these guys are not wanting that to happen.
~ Dale Earnhardt
Racing is what I love, so it's pretty simple. I want to keep doing it and keep winning.
~ Lewis Hamilton
It's very, very special for me. This is where I've grown up, it's my home, and winning the Monaco Grand Prix is the highlight of any racing driver's career and for me a childhood dream. It being my home makes it all the more special, unbelievable.
~ Nico Rosberg
Winning races is very difficult - actually, it's not: you just have to qualify in front, and then it's much easier, from what we've analysed!
~ Toto Wolff
I've enjoyed winning races in both 500cc and MotoGP and enjoyed leading the world championship and contesting it right up until the end.
~ Sete Gibernau
As a driver you enjoy winning races, and if you win in the easiest way possible, fine, but in reality we all remember the fights to the end, the nip and tuck stuff.
~ Allan McNish
America has always had an affinity for the automobile. It's something everybody can understand. A bunch of cars competing, and the fastest guy wins.
~ Brian France
The day that Chase Elliott wins his first race is gonna be one of the best moments in NASCAR racing because of the fact of how impactful it will be for all of us in NASCAR racing.
~ Kevin Harvick
I really want to thank Red Bull Racing and Dr. Helmut Marko for the confidence they have in me.
~ Max Verstappen
I'm just so lucky - my office is a racetrack. That is something I'm very thankful for. It's exciting, and it's challenging, and there are a lot of emotions and nerves that come with it, but right there before the gates open, before that minute and a half or two minutes of the race, it just hits you.
~ Chantal Sutherland
I'll always wear NAPA blue. I'm thankful they were a part of my life.
~ Michael Waltrip
When I was really young, I busted my nose when I was racing. The first thing my dad asked me was: 'Are you OK?' I said, 'Can you fix the car for tomorrow?' And I won the race the next day.
~ Lewis Hamilton
The first thing I said to Chase Elliott when I was in Iowa at a same race as him, I told him, and he was humble as his father is humble, I said, 'Look, you can't be happy just to be here. Don't be saying, I can't believe I'm here. You're here because you're good. You've got to go out now and win.' I always tell young guys that.
~ Brian France
You can't have F1 without Ferrari - you just can't have it. It's part of the theme that is the red car, and a lot of it is to do with the colour.
~ Chris Rea
To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark.
~ Roland Barthes
Trainers tended to perform with the same degree of effectiveness at various Saratoga meetings
~ Andrew Beyer
I feel a rush of excitement whenever I get near the track.
~ Andrew Beyer
Fitness was not his cup of tea. He treated his body like a vehicle - a motorbike that he raced at top speed along the rim of the Grand Canyon.
~ Saul Bellow
As we go up into the Via Dolorosa, we hear an exciting jingle. Arab boys are racing their donkeys down the hill. You
~ Saul Bellow
I've been happy with my life. Also very lucky. I lead two lives - businessman and racer - and it feels like the best of both worlds.
~ Connie Kalitta
I've loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father.
~ Queen Latifah
I was racing through life, utterly confused and angry. I don't know if I was out of control; it was more like I felt frustrated with myself and everything I saw happening around me.
~ Jimmy Nail