Quotes About Passion

It is not that I lost my biggest passion - it is still racing.

I am a big fan of racing.

Racing's in my blood. My mum met my dad when she went to buy her first motorbike in his shop.

Do I care about what men say at the race track? No, not at all. I've always said I race for me, because I love racing. I don't race to prove a point about how well a woman can do against men on the track.

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

I'm very fortunate now in that I have my first love, which is drama and acting, for a living and I'm also managing to go racing as well.

I like running my Super Late Models here and there and there are times when you go to those events and they are for $2,000 or $3,000 to win. There's no money involved in that; you're basically spending your money to go racing in those things but it's so enjoyable. For me, it's kind of like a golf game.

Racing is work, so that's not a hobby.

My life is consumed by racing.

I like horse racing but I'm not an All-Star in horse racing. I'm an All-Star fan in horse racing.

I grew up wearing free racing T-shirts.

It's like Richard Petty always said, 'Racing isn't the job. That's where we get away from our job.' That's where we go out and have fun and get away from the madness. No one can bother you in there. There's no phones, no interviews - it's just you, driving.

I am living my childhood dream of racing in Formula 1 and I've put my whole life into achieving that dream so it is only natural for me to be giving absolutely everything I've got, to achieve success in racing and the day I no longer do that I will retire from racing immediately.

I love racing, I love racing everything really - karts, anything - so I do need to keep doing that. But the focus is on Formula One.

If we think we can make winning more important and the racing more exciting, that's what we'll do.

People wonder where I get my aggressiveness. Since I was 8 I've been racing that way.

The competitor within craves to get going, to get racing.

My whole life is about racing, and of course everybody wants to do the same with your son. Being a father and doing motor racing with him goes hand in hand.

I grew up with my mum, so I'm very, very close to her. But I'm close to my dad as well, and we talk about racing a lot, as we share that passion. I guess that's quite normal.

I thought I'd become a welder if my racing career ended.

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

We're going to do whatever it takes to bring that NASCAR style of racing on the track to full fruition. That's simply what we have to do.

I always love racing the 100 fly, it has just always been an event that I enjoy.

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.