Quotes About Racing

I've always had a fascination with cars and racing, not that I've ever competed.

The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.

There's a handful of racing things I've done where it was like, 'Man, that was really stupid and embarrassing.' But I don't mind talking about them.

In NASCAR, you don't have to be as physically strong as in some other forms of racing. You've just got to be able to endure the heat and endurance of it.

I am a racing driver and I am not just some guy who has had an accident and gone back to racing because that is what he enjoys.

There are other things that I could do, but there's really nothing that I love as much as horse racing.

There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the next.

I've had a passion for horses since I was very young - I used to sit on the floor in front of the races on television and pretend to be a jockey - and I first began reading the racing form on the set of 'The Partridge Family.'

Drift racing is expensive.

I grew up in a culture of motorbikes. So I like racing just fine. Quite a lot, actually. That was when I was a boy in Australia. And I never really made the jump to cars after that.

I will drive flat out all the time. I love racing.

Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century.

But to personally satisfy my own adrenalin needs, I've been racing cars a little bit, which has been fun.

Racing is what I live for, and it makes my world go around. Having said that, without the support of the diabetes community, I may not have gotten back into the race car after my diagnosis in October 2007.

When you go to club racing in Denmark, people spend money to buy a race car and go and race, and many don't actually really have the money, but they spend it anyway because they love it and that's why I like those kind of things.

Just competing in the Brazilian GP is a dream for all Brazilian racing drivers. I remember sitting in the grandstands when I was a kid, watching Ayrton Senna, Nelson Piquet and even Rubens Barrichello. After that, to race there in Formula One is a feeling that is hard to explain.

When I was a kid I was only interested in going fast and I still love that feeling of speed. But when you start to go racing, it's winning that's important.

Racing is something I've always wanted to do, so it's my dream come true.

The moment I prefer is the moment I put on the helmet, that everyone is leaving the pit lane, that I'm alone with the car and there it feels good. You don't have any feelings anymore; it's just racing and this I enjoy.

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.

I have a passion for racing, for competing and for fighting on the track.

I am a motorbike fanatic - always have been. It's actually what I wanted to do before I got into motor racing.

I am very happy because motor racing is very important outside the states, very big all over the world.