Quotes About Speed

My first memory of motor racing - I think it was just attending a go kart race.

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 am so competitive I cannot imagine myself without a racing car.

I like road-course racing.

The racing is quite boring, sometimes. It's hard to see how it pulls in fans.

I am a big fan of racing.

My life is consumed by racing.

I grew up wearing free racing T-shirts.

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.

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

What I know is when the racing is tighter and there's more passing, there's just more excitement and more contact and more things that happen. That's kind of what NASCAR is all about.

I think we're the best road racing show in town.

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

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

Lots of things can happen when there's really hard racing and contact going on.

That's what stock-car racing is. You hit someone, or you get hit. That's something I had to learn. It's a key factor in why I'm so aggressive. I don't want to have to hit you. But if you're going to hit me, I'm going to hit you.

Mistakes happen in racing.

Luck is just a stupid word in racing.

Anytime you slow the speeds down, racing will always be better.

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

I love racing with the World of Outlaws.

I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun. I hit 70 one time on a radar guy at one of those pitch-and-throw kind of things. I have a pretty good arm for somebody who's not a baseball player.

I love the Dakar Rally, the Baja stuff.

I do try rallying. I do like rallying a lot. We have a rally car there in the countryside in Madrid. And everytime I'm there, I just jump in and have some fun. I really like rallying.