Quotes About Performance

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

It's hard to find the motivation to perform at 100 percent when you're trying to find yourself, trying to figure out what feel you need, really when you feel like you're not racing for anything.

We have moved away from basic racing, where you see how the drivers fight with the cars to their physical limits and then make mistakes - or not.

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

People get excited around me and behave differently than they would normally. I don't feel different from anyone else, except that I drive a racing car round in circles faster than somebody else.

My habit is to get real competitive and make racing probably more work than it is enjoyable, and I put a lot of pressure on myself, and I feel like there's pressure from the outside - it's probably not real, but it's something I imagine.

I can't remember ever racing without any pressure.

Again, racing for me was about energy management.

As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.

I've always said that racing in New York is performing on the big stage.

We do not invest in advertising... So racing is the best advertising for Ferrari.

I wouldn't dream of watching motor racing, cycling, or golf - which aren't truly sports anyway.

I think sim racing helps. I have improved in areas and do it whenever I need to improve. You don't feel G-force and those things are probably the biggest things, that and the fear factor which you feel when you drive. Therefore, when I go on to the track I'm better.

Some days you really don't feel like racing and you have a great performance, some days you feel great and you have a mediocre performance.

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

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.'

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

It's hard to fall asleep after a game. I often go to sleep at 4 A. M. because I'm thinking about the game and my mind is racing.

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

Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff.

The last few years haven't been as good so I can fly under the radar, come in and do the best I can and I don't have all these high hopes placed on me.

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 pride myself on that, even though I'm kind of under the radar, when I step on the field, I try to do an admirable job.