Quotes About Racing

I would love to run the Indy 500 someday. But I would only want to do it if the right opportunity was out there and I was in a car I felt like was capable of winning with a team and crew that has a history of winning here at the Speedway.

I love speed. I love racing cars, whether it's on the streets or wherever. Don't tell the St. Louis police, though.

My friend is a former race car driver, so he races for Mercedes, and I root for him. I have a car that I love to race, I'll take it to the track.

The legend says a man named Jesse Elliot was horse racing. He must have had a bet or something, 'cause he shouted to his horse, Take me in a winner or take me to hell! You said a bad word, Michael interrupted. It's OK when you're quoting someone else, silly, Brian argued.

I was a big Damon Hill fan, and I loved Michael Schumacher.

Grand Prix racer Jochen Rindt said simply that when he's racing, "You ignore everything and just concentrate. You forget about the rest of the world and become part of the car and track. It's a very special feeling. You're completely out of this world and completely into it. There's nothing like it.

I won Formula Four. I went to New Zealand and won the Toyota Racing Series. I won the F3 European championship in 2016.

People ask if I would do the TT myself - the actual romance of doing it is in me but the chances are zero. I can't belittle the talent and the bravery and the endurance that goes into a race like this. The competitors are some of the bravest men on the planet and it is one of the biggest challenges a racer can take on.

The most dangerous part of the race is early evening and especially early morning. It's the twilight zone. Either you're going into darkness and the sun is dropping down, or you're coming out of the darkness and the sun is coming up. At the same time, you've got new drivers coming in and feeling their way around the circuit.

I think I will not follow all the races, even in 2020 I am already considering eventually skipping some of the racing in the last part of the season starting from Turkey.

When you are in your twenties you just think the races are what matter the most. When you are in your forties you really appreciate what you do every day.

I went to a couple of events with my dad for sure, and I grew up in Daytona where the races ran twice a year. But I never thought - even into my twenties - that this was going to be a big enough career for me.

Once we started racing, my dad had his own industrial cleaning business about twenty minutes from the house, so we kept our race cars there.

When you grow up around racing, you just want to race for a living. It doesn't matter what it is.

Formula One is definitely what I want to do. I would get back in the car today if I could.

Suzanne Collins

My heart is beating so fast and fierce I hardly hear them.

People might not know, but F1 drivers have new helmets made throughout the season. Usually, the design is the same, but I like to do something special for Monaco.

The chances of me getting into the Hall of Fame as a racer are slim to none. But as an owner I have a chance to do something special, mostly because I learned a lot of secrets from Dale.

I would love to do a one-off race somewhere - NASCAR would be awesome.

My son is racing his first 24-hour this year with Porsche.

As soon as I paid the mortgage off in 1988, I started racing cars.

It's hard to not make a mistake at Darlington.

It's true that Ferrari and Monaco are the two most important things to F1.