Quotes About Challenge

I put myself under a lot of pressure when I was racing, all the time.

Getting back racing gave me the extra motivation in other areas to get back walking in my day to day life and just spurred me on.

I really thought my racing days were behind me but it is tough to give up something that has been a part of my life for so long and that I love so much.

Racing's been good to me, but I'm bored of it.

Racing is very physical.

The excitement of automobile racing did not compare with what I knew must come with aeroplane fighting in France.

I have to accept risk as a racing driver.

Road racing has given me a good life, and I'm not being cocky, but I've brought something to racing, too.

All in all, racing with lift and coast is actually harder.

In racing, things start coming up quicker, and the slipstream is stronger, so even judging in the mirrors how quick the cars are approaching isn't always easy.

Running an airline is the most difficult job in the world. Racing was more dangerous for my life.

When you start thinking you may get hurt, it's time to get out of racing.

Ask me about the challenge of becoming as good at music as I am at motorsport, and I have to say: my career has been racing, and I don't plan on music becoming my next career.

New nemeses keep racing fresh, but I also find challenge in going longer, with only the distance as foe. I run my first 50-mile race, journey across the Grand Canyon and back, circumnavigate Mount St. Helens.

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

It might sound stupid, but I don't enter a race to win - I enter a race because I love racing.

Capsizes kind of go hand in hand with 49er racing. I've had four to five capsizes in races and still won the event. It's just the nature of this type of sailing.

Short-circuit racing is full of health and safety, but the reason I ride a motorbike is because of the danger, and there is no place more dangerous than the TT.

I'd love a racing career, but as I didn't start until I was 28 I missed years of experience.

I like road-course racing.

When I decided to stop as a racing driver in 2015, I knew I wanted to continue with the challenge of competitive motorsport.

I think I did a pretty good job - particularly when I was racing with Hakkinen. It was maybe the first time that I have been challenging with the big boys, and I really enjoyed it.

I started racing when I was 14 and remember guys like Denis Dunne and Martin Hanrahan dropping me by 10 minutes.

I'm a racing driver and I need to race, that's what I do.