Quotes About Focus

The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the other than it is to drive too hard and crash.

Many of us have convinced ourselves that compromise is necessary to achieve our goals, that all of our goals are not attainable so we should eliminate the extraneous, prioritize our desires, and accept less than the moon.

To be a champion, you must have no ego at all. You must not exist as a separate entity. You must give yourself over to the race. You are nothing if not for your team, your car, your shoes, your tires. Do not mistake confidence and self-awareness for egotism.

That which you manifest is before you. The visible becomes inevitable. Your car goes where your eyes go.

Your car goes where your eyes go. Lonliness is unable to survive without a willing host.

To finish the race first, you must first finish the race.

Get busy mother f---er!

Your car goes where your eyes go. Simply another way of saying that which you manifest is before you.

Yes: the race is long-to finish first, first you must finish. ~p206

Racers are often called selfish and egotistical. I myself have called race car drivers selfish; I was wrong. To be a champion, you must have no ego at all. You must not exist as a separate entity. You must give yourself over to the race. You are nothing if not for your team, your car, your shoes, your tires. Do not mistake confidence and self-awareness for egotism.

Success at any endeavor on an elite level demands selfishness.

To remember is to disengage from the present

Your car goes where your eyes go. Simply another way of saying that you make your own destiny.

When I am racing, my mind and my body are working so quickly and so well together, I must be sure no to think, or else I will definitely make a mistake.

Intention is everything.

In racing, they say your car goes where your eyes go. The driver who cannot tear his eyes away from the wall as he spins out of control will meet that wall; the driver who looks down the track as he feels his tires break free will regain control of his vehicle.

No race has ever been won in the first corner; many have been lost there.

Your car goes where your eyes go.

A race car driver must be very selfish. It is a cold truth: even his family must came second to the race.

La macchina va dove vanno gli occhi," the boy says. The champion laughs, then looks to the sky. "Si," he says. "The car goes where the eyes go. It is true, my young friend. It is very, very true.

He says racing is doing. It is being a part of a moment and being aware of nothing else but that moment. Reflection must come at a later time.

I know this much about racing in the rain. I know it is about balance. It is about anticipation and patience.

The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the others than it is to drive too hard and crash.

a racer will never let something that has already happened affect what is happening now.