Racing Quotes

I think you're certainly going to see much closer racing. But, no, these are very good teams in the IRL. I just can't stress how competitive they all are and how close it's going to be.

I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.

I guess everybody saw it. It's a deal where I'd been racing cars a long time and I knew going around the track the fender was on the tire hard.

I couldn't beat Michael Phelps. A couple of years ago, I was racing against him and it just kinda dawned on me during the race that there was no chance I was gonna beat this guy. And so I said, if you can't beat him, find a race that he won't swim.

I was this guy who'd been racing around down there, on that field in 1999, running straight over people, scoring tries, winning games, having fun. And I ended up so sick I couldn't even run past a little baby.

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

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

I was racing through life, utterly confused and angry. I don't know if I was out of control; it was more like I felt frustrated with myself and everything I saw happening around me.

I've been around racing a fairly long time, but when it comes to the important issues, I'm happy to let others make the big decisions.

In the last three years of racing I've met as many women fans as men fans, and in NASCAR it's the same thing. My wife loves cars, but the difference is she doesn't have 20 years of understanding the background of them. She basically drives them and uses her gut feelings as to which is best.

Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience.

My focus is definitely on the racing.

I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again.

In NASCAR, you don't have to be as physically strong as in some other forms of racing. You've just got to be able to endure the heat and endurance of it.

But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.

I am very happy because motor racing is very important outside the states, very big all over the world.

Gary Smith, when I came to America, taught me a great deal about racing.

I think the best way is to forget about racing people and just find territory that's fresh.

When I did some Nascar races this year I noticed that I was increasingly missing the racing side, to race against each other, because in rallying you really race against the clock.

I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing.

You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.

It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.

I've always said that racing in New York is performing on the big stage.

Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.

In racing, I wanted to be a winner and to be a winner, you have to be willing to roll the dice.

I once bought an old car back after I sold it because I missed it so much and I had forgotten that it never ran. It was a British racing car. You know, because I just wanted it back. I could only remember what was good about it.

My career in racing started at a very young age in California.

I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car.

I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.