Quotes About Racing

Since I started in motor racing I've worked with people from all over the world. We are all here to go racing and prejudice will never play any part in that.

A lesser but still fundamental rule of racing is that you properly enter the event. Anyone who doesn't but still insists on running interferes with the paying customers.

I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

I guess it is the sense of personal satisfaction that racing gives you that I am probably going to miss, because in racing you get that feedback very quickly.

If NASCAR racing gets any more exciting, I may not be able to stand it.

I think racing and riding are two different elements of cycling. You either want to or not depending on what you want to get out of it.

I feel comfortable around every driver out there and each driver is in charge of their own car, but you feel very secure racing the competition out there.

My focus is definitely on the racing.

I saw Lotus F1 racing as the best choice for me to progress my career, after considering several other options that were available to me.

I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.

I started racing myself and once you get bitten by that bug you really are hooked.

The competition in today's world of racing is so tough.

One of my greatest pleasures in motor racing is qualifying. You have loads of freedom from pushing a lap the whole way. I've always been very good in qualifying in the past; everything I've done, I've got pole positions.

It was not until I started racing for car manufacturers that I found a car I could really get attached to. I am the son of a car dealer, so up until then, cars just came and went.

Even though people involved in racing think that it has a big sporting stage, it is a minority sport compared to some of the other high-profile events: football, Formula One or golf.

The feeling I got from rallycross was a little bit more of the NASCAR aspect of it; it's a family of races where racing is a passion, and it's not the politics that come with it.

I don't think that American drivers going to NASCAR are taking the easy way out because as I said, the racing is amazing; it's just that it's easier to adapt to what you grow up with. American drivers grow up with NASCAR, they know NASCAR, and that's where they want to go.

Once I decided to retire from bikes, there was no thought to go racing again. I wanted to have a full year off and maybe even see the world a bit.

I grew up in the North of England at a time when Stirling Moss was a hero. Everyone wanted to be a racing driver.

We do not invest in advertising... So racing is the best advertising for Ferrari.

If the Indy Racing League didn't have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.

Once in a great while I miss the racing, the feeling of winning. That rush. That adrenaline.

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.

F1 is giving penalties for people making mistakes instead of for people driving dirty. And that is wrong. Mistakes happen. You run into each other: that's life, that's racing, and too bad.