Auto Racing Quotes - Page 2

• You have to visualize a second or two ahead of your car what line you are taking, what you are going to do, before you get there because it comes too fast.

  Emerson Fittipaldi

  Motivational, Two, Creative Visualization

  Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. August 2, 2002.

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• It's like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium

  Dick Trickle

  Car, Flying, Fighter

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• There have been other tracks that separated the men from the boys. This is the track that will separate the brave from the weak after the boys are gone.

  Jimmy Thompson

  Boys, Men, Track

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• When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

  Ayrton Senna

  Winning, Second Chance, Race

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  As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

  Ayrton Senna

  Determination, Racing, Mind

  "Ayrton Senna: Racing Is in My Blood". Documentary, 1992.

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• I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.

  Valentino Rossi

  Motivational, Sports, Winning

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We broke something, I think it was traction.

  Carl Edwards

  Thinking, Car, Racing

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• And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

  Ayrton Senna

  Car, Different, Dimensions

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• Nobody remembers the guy who finished second but the guy who finished second.

  Bobby Unser

  Nascar Racing, Guy, Remember

  Bobby Unser (2004). “Winners are Driven: A Champion's Guide to Success in Business and Life”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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• The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses.

  Mario Andretti

  Nascar Racing, People, Missing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track, and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey, and you go to jail.

  Junior Johnson

  Home, Nascar Racing, Jail

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• There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sports, Motor Racing, Games

  "Bullfighting Also Rises -- For Now" by Paul Wachter, www.esquire.com. February 14, 2013.

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• There was a day when you could identify a NASCAR Ford, Chevrolet, or Dodge and they actually looked like "stock cars." Now they are pod machines, slick on the outside but still powered by the same Neanderthal carbureted pushrod V-8s that have been under their hoods for half a century. If this is real auto racing, then the WWF ought to be part of the Olympics.

  Brock Yates

  Real, Car, Racing

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• As far as cheating goes, they'll never stop it. The only way it can be done successfully, only one person can know about it.

  Smokey Yunick

  Cheating, Car, Racing

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• The client is not always right.

  Enzo Ferrari

  Aerodynamics, Luxury, Car

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

  Dave Barry

  Nascar Racing, Literature, Upside Down

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.104, Ballantine Books

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• There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.

  Murray Walker

  Nascar Racing, Four, Lines

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• When you win a race your on top that day, so take it for what its worth, have a good time and party, cause the next day when you get out of bed, the meter goes back to zero again.

  Bobby Allison

  Zero, Party, Winning

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• If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower.

  Mark Donohue

  Two, Car, Black

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• The hunger and desire to go racing, however, never leaves your blood but the right opportunity has never really come along - until now that is.

  Nigel Mansell

  Motivational, Opportunity, Blood

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• The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.

  Murray Walker

  Unique, Motor Racing, Nascar Racing

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• Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Car, Achievement, Racing

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• And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing.

  Murray Walker

  Car, Racing, Important

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• Turbochargers are for people who cant build engines.

  Keith Duckworth

  Aerodynamics, People, Car

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• You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means your brain is receiving information from your body what your car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.

  Emerson Fittipaldi

  Motivational, Football, Mean

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