Racing Driver Quotes

• Racing drivers have balls, unfortunantly, none of them are crystal

  David Coulthard

  Racing, Crystals, Balls

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

  Colin McRae

  Race, Car, Racing

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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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• Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than others.

  Ayrton Senna

  Motor Racing, Littles, Limits

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  If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver.

  Ayrton Senna

  Racing, Gaps, Drivers

  Interview at the 1990 Australian Grand Prix, November 1990.

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• You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Sports, Winning, Nascar Racing

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• Nobody is born with a steering wheel or a gear shift in his hand. It's something you choose to do or you don't.

  Mario Andretti

  Hands, Racing, Gears

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• I do not speak the English so good, but then I speak the driving very well.

  Emerson Fittipaldi

  Racing, Driving, Speak

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• There are those who keep out of mischief, and there are the adventurers, ‘ he said. “We racing drivers are adventurers; the more difficult something is, the greater the attraction that comes from it.

  Juan Manuel Fangio

  Racing, Said, Difficult

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• If you are a straightforward racing driver you should always see your limits. You have to be objective and not come up with any bullshit.

  Niki Lauda

  Bullshit, Racing, Limits

  Source: www.grandprix.com

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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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• I am someone who places great value on the detail. That was always the case, even in my days as a racing driver.

  Niki Lauda

  Racing, Details, Cases

  Source: www.european-business.com

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• The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.

  Emerson Fittipaldi

  Sports, Car, Racing

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

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• Dad taught me everything I know, but he would never tell me anything he knew.

  Al Unser, Jr.

  Dad, Taught, Knows

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• The racing driver needs to be fed a diet of other racing drivers.

  Carroll Smith

  Racing, Needs, Feds

  Carroll Smith (1996). “Drive to Win: The Essential Guide to Race Driving”, Motorbooks International

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• By being a racing driver means you are racing with other people. And if you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver because we are competing, we are competing to win.

  Ayrton Senna

  Mean, Winning, People

  Interview at the 1990 Australian Grand Prix, November 1990.

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• You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and am not design to come third, fourth or fifth, I race to win.

  Ayrton Senna

  Winning, Race, Design

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• If you don't cheat, you look like an idiot; if you cheat and don't get caught, you look like a hero; if you cheat and get caught, you look like a dope. Put me where I belong.

  Darrell Waltrip

  Hero, Dope, Nascar 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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• 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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