Race Car Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• A great race car driver in a bad car doesn't make great results. A great car and a bad race car driver doesn't make great results. You have to have both. It's the combination of driver and car.

  Jeff Burton

  Race, Car, Results

  "Daytona Preseason Thunder - Burton press conference, part 2". Press conference, www.motorsport.com. January 15, 2008.

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• The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts.

  Ferdinand Porsche

  Fall, Perfect, Car

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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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• I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Death, Suicide

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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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• We should make politicians dress like race car drivers -- when they get money, make them wear the company logos on their suit.

  Jay Leno

  Race, Car, Dresses

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• So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars.

  Jeff Gordon

  Race, Car, Driving

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• Every day in life there are challenges; whether you're an accountant, a race car driver or whatever you do.

  Justin Allgaier

  Race, Car, Challenges

  "A CSJ Conversation with Justin Allgaier". Interview with CSJ, christiansportsjournal.com. March 10, 2017.

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• I'd like to say I'm ready to kick ass and show the guys how it's done. But I'm not here to prove anything about being a woman. I'm here to drive a race car and try to win a race.

  Lyn St. James

  Winning, Race, Car

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• I think fear is what keeps us from going over the edge. I mean, as a race car driver, I don't think what makes a good race car driver is a fearless person. I think it's somebody that is comfortable being behind the wheel of something that's somewhat out of control.

  Jeff Gordon

  Mean, Thinking, Race

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• I will always enter a race car from the left side. Always. Why? I have no idea.

  Mario Andretti

  Race, Ideas, Car

  "The Mario Andretti Indy 500 Interview: Part II". Interview with Steven Capwell, www.littlepocketguide.com.

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• When you're in a race car, you're going through so many different emotions throughout that race.

  Jeff Gordon

  Race, Car, Different

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• The builder of the best racing car is not necessarily its best driver.

  Hans Selye

  Car, Racing, Drivers

  hans selye (1974). “stress without distress”

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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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• The only healing I’ve ever known is getting back in that race car — for all us racers.

  Clint Bowyer

  Healing, Race, Car

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• Driving is something really special for me. Even women doesn't excite me as much as racing cars! I guess I'm just becoming old.

  Michele Alboreto

  Car, Racing, Special

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• I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course.

  Jeremy London

  Dad, Golf, Race

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• I've always wanted to race cars, ever since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have.

  Paul Walker

  Boys, Thinking, Race

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• Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

  Carroll Shelby

  Ambition, Race, Car

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• I hate to take compromises with a racing car. The more standard a car is, the more compromises you have to take.

  Michael Schumacher

  Hate, Car, Racing

  "Schumacher keeps his foot down". Interview With Maurice Hamilton, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2002.

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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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• It's basically the same, just darker.

  Alan Kulwicki

  Nascar Racing, Afl, Rugby

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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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• 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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