Racing Quotes

• The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.

  John Bingham

  Inspirational, Softball, Sports

  John Bingham (1999). “The Courage To Start: A Guide To Running for Your Life”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• Gentlemen, start your engines!

  Tony Hulman

  Gentleman, Engines

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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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  Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Love, 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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• The best way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a big one.

  Junior Johnson

  Way, Bigs, Fortune

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• At some point in every racer's life he has to make his peace with cheating. I do not approve of cheating ... at all. Of course, like every successful racer, I differentiate between taking advantage of loopholes in the regulations, stretching the grey areas and outright cheating. In any given racing series I will not start the cheating. If someone else starts it, I will appeal to them and to the officials to stop it. If my efforts do not succeed, then I'll show them how it is done.

  Carroll Smith

  Cheating, Successful, Effort

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

  Dale Earnhardt

  Sports, Winning, Nascar Racing

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• Nothing good has ever been written about the full rotation of a racecar about its roll axis.

  Carroll Smith

  Axes, Rotation, Written

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• Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Sports, Real

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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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• When I first started racing, my father said, "Win the race as slow as you can.

  Richard Petty

  Father, Winning, Race

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

  Colin McRae

  Race, Car, Driving

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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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• 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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• When I started racing my father told me, 'Cristiano, nobody has three balls but some people have two very good ones.'

  Cristiano da Matta

  Father, Two, People

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• Racing is in my blood, I can't quite get out of it yet.

  Dick Trickle

  Blood, I Can

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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

  Self Improvement, Being The Best, Motorsports

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• When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.

  Steve McQueen

  Waiting, Happens

  "Fictional character: Michael Delaney". "Le Mans", www.imdb.com. June 23, 1971.

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• Racing is not what I like to do; it's winning.

  Jeff Gordon

  Winning

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• If lightning strikes while you're in the car it's your fault.

  Doc Bundy

  Car, Lightning, Faults

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• What sets these - and all - racers apart from less daredevilish mortals is their complete lack of fear and their joy of doing something on the edge. They love to speed because it is dangerous.

  Peter Golenbock

  Joy, Speed, Dangerous

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• The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand.

  Juan Manuel Fangio

  Hands, Car, Gears

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

  Parnelli Jones

  Nascar Racing, Speed, Enough

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