Quotes About Racing

If you can qualify on the pole or in the front, you have a better chance of getting five points for leading a lap or leading the most laps.

When you only qualify in 18th position, you have to take your chance off the grid.

There is no secret, once we go to qualifying, we all seem to enjoy it. Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It's like a rush, I really enjoy that.

I really don't like thoroughbreds, but I was getting bored with quarter horses.

I think it would be very exciting to do a track like Silverstone the other way around, to arrive so quick in Becketts and then Maggotts would be very exciting.

A race driver needs to be quick, to be intelligent, to have good relationships and be in the right place at the right time. There are a lot of factors that would create a successful race driver.

The key is trying to go quick without killing your tyres.

People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.

I like to race, not to do laps alone.

When I think about it, it is quite crazy to race against people like Fernando Alonso, when I remember watching him from the balcony in Monaco.

I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn't my No. 1 priority.

For my first race, when I was 19, I'd bought a 600cc bike. And that was far too big for me, really. I shouldn't have really had something like that. But anyway, I went and raced, and I crashed. In my very first race! But I never gave in. I kept going back and back and back.

I like to race. I like to compete.

I would have loved to race from 1970 to 1980.

I try to race everybody with respect.

When I was a kid, I used to play a game called 'Grand Prix Two.' Interlagos was always the first race of the season on that, and I never really got much past the second race. I would always restart the season, so I always seemed to be doing Interlagos - it was a real pain!

When I run a race, I, maybe inadvertently or unknowingly, concern myself with whether the fan was entertained or got what he expected or whether they got what I think they deserved out of me and out of the race.

When I take go-karts out with my friends, it's a disaster normally. But in the race car, I'm calm because they pay me to do this, and I have to be professional.

I'd be a race car driver. I love fast cars.

I just feel so confident when I get in my race car that I'm going to do good, I'm going to win, I'm going to outrun everybody.

Ever since I've jumped in a Legends or Dwarf car, I've always tried to win. I've been able to win in every race car I've ever driven.

I've got my hands in every aspect of the NASCAR world, not only as the part time race car driver but as the full time TV guy and race team owner.

My idea is to win all the iconic motor sport races in the world.

You look at Moto3, the races are very exciting. Moto2 is fantastic, and then MotoGP is boring.