Quotes About Racing

You can't really learn, not in car racing. You have to make your own mistakes.

I love the buzz of racing and being competitive and trying to push myself to be the best that I can be.

Back when I was racing go-karts, I would be a complete jokester. I'd crack up with the guys around me, I just was horsing around with everyone. But as soon as we got our go-karts to the grid and I put on my helmet, my daddy always used tell me, 'You turn into a completely different person.'

Mistakes happen in racing.

I became a real racing nerd - I knew all the drivers and talked about karting all the time. I wanted to have a go, but when I got into a kart the noise scared me. I was also worried that I wouldn't be able to control the brake with my foot.

I'll play some 'UFC,' 'Call of Duty' sometimes too. What else I play? I play some racing games.

NASCAR racing is the highest form of American auto racing, and I've always wanted to be racing in the highest form. I want to accomplish good things in everything I get in every night, but NASCAR is the biggest, most-watched thing in American racing.

I like that, to possibly be the guy to make Chip Ganassi Racing a championship team year in and year out.

I think every driver wants to make an impact in racing at any division they run on the way up.

I think for me, I've always come back to the fact that I feel most alive when I'm racing. That sounds very cliche, but for me the reason I feel that is because racing is that opportunity to really find your limit.

I want to have a positive influence on the sport of horse racing.

I used to build ramps in my back garden. It was more about having a bit of fun than racing.

I seem to struggle when it comes to racing on road courses.

I love racing with the World of Outlaws.

I think I feel a car like anybody else can, but maybe what makes me different is that I race so much that I have experience racing with a lot of different crew chiefs. I'm really easy to get along with and me not knowing anything about a race car, I know to just let them do their job.

I love the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the greatest racing track that there is, you just love everything about it.

You had to be, I want to say 12 or 13 to drag race, but I was drag racing probably like at 8, and then it was overlapping. I was starting to rap, but I was still drag racing around 9 or 10, until I finally was like, 'You know, I don't want to do this no more. I just want to rap.'

We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do.

I love the Dakar Rally, the Baja stuff.

I get to do the Dakar Rally. I get to do the Daytona 500. I get to do the Indy 500. I'm very fortunate to get to do these things.

When I did some Nascar races this year I noticed that I was increasingly missing the racing side, to race against each other, because in rallying you really race against the clock.

I don't understand why everybody can't remember how exciting the Daytona 500 has been over the years when Richard Petty and David Pearson and Darrell Waltrip ran just the three of them racing for the win. Why do you have to have 40 cars in a pack to say it's exciting?

I think in 2012, I ran 28 races in June, so I probably ran 12 or 13 in a row, at least.

I'm writing kid's books, I'm doing endurance racing with Le Mans and designing bikes. I've also got my own range of cycling clothing.