Car Racing Quotes

Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.

Colin McRae

Race, Car, Racing

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The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose.

Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

Motivational, Sports, Motor Racing

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To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster.

Stirling Moss

Motivational, Motor Racing, Games

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What's behind you doesn't matter.

Enzo Ferrari

Motivational, Motor Racing, Car

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Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built.

Henry Ford

Nascar Racing, Funny Racing, Minutes

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I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.

Enzo Ferrari

Car, Racing, Interest In Life

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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If you don't come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you're not trying hard enough

Mario Andretti

Hands, Racing, Trying

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

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If you're in control, you're not going fast enough.

Parnelli Jones

Nascar Racing, Speed, Enough

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You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

Ayrton Senna

Motivational, Winning, Motor Racing

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If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

Mario Andretti

Inspirational, Funny, Life

"Driving With Mario Andretti, Who at 76, Still Refuses to Slow Down". Interview with Sam Smith, www.roadandtrack.com. June 24, 2016.

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Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines.

Enzo Ferrari

Motor Racing, Aerodynamics, Car

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

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It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.

Mario Andretti

Motivational, Thinking, Nascar Racing

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

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Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

Paul Newman

Law, Racing, Useless

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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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To finish first, you must first finish.

Rick Mears

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

Hunter S. Thompson

Motor Racing, Nascar Racing, Drug

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Race cars are neither beautiful nor ugly. They become beautiful when they win.

Enzo Ferrari

Beautiful, Winning, Race

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When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.

Alain Prost

Motivational, Motor Racing, Race

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

Steven Wright

Funny, Death, Suicide

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Once you've raced, you never forget it...and you never get over it.

Richard Childress

Car, Racing, Never Forget

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It's basically the same, just darker.

Alan Kulwicki

Nascar Racing, Afl, Rugby

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It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance.

Jackie Stewart

Racing, Self Improvement, Being The Best

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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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It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991

Alan Kulwicki

Sports, Sunday, Night

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I don't know driving in another way which isn't risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other's.

Ayrton Senna

Motivational, Motor Racing, Car

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