Top 100 Motor Quotes

We want to find a way to be an environmental leader in motor sports, as well as in sports in general.

When I was in motor racing, I had taken the decision to risk my life. But when you run an airline, and more than 200 people want to go from A to B – and they don’t arrive – that’s a different responsibility.

I love all motor sports at the top level.

In idling, the motor’s running, but you’re letting your mind take in anything. Things pop into it. Those are the gifts of subterranean conscious.

One of my greatest pleasures in motor racing is qualifying. You have loads of freedom from pushing a lap the whole way. I’ve always been very good in qualifying in the past; everything I’ve done, I’ve got pole positions.

I have motor oil running through my veins.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

I watch a lot of players. Guys like Kenneth Faried, his motor. I’m trying to take that and put that into my game.

The problem with motor neurone disease is they don’t know when it starts. People go into hospital having fallen but get wrapped up and sent away, unless they’re seen by an incredibly astute doctor. It is only when several things begin to go wrong that it’ll be diagnosed.

I encourage everyone operating a motor vehicle to be cognizant and aware of motorcyclists while they are on our highways.

The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous.

I’m more convinced than when I accepted this job that we can create a viable Ford Motor Co. that makes cars and trucks that people really do prefer. And we can make them using minimum resources and minimum time and be competitive with our competition.

The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.

To my knowledge, there have been no studies done on the effects of antidepressants and altitude. But it is hugely important to find out if there are side effects. We should also find out what are the effects on fine motor skills and reaction time. These are all important questions that should be assessed.

Sleep deprivation impairs everything from your motor skills to your reaction time.

Practical European socialists have embraced the idea that the government has a role in healthcare and in supporting strong transportation systems that do not depend entirely on individual motor vehicles. And it turns out we’re all socialists now, and there are very few Americans who understand that.

Europe needs an engine, and the Franco-German motor has provided that when the two nations have converged on important topics during critical periods. But that partnership shouldn’t be a directorate for other EU members.

A lot of the work in, say, construction or restaurants involves visual and motor flexibility. It also requires adaptability, in terms of answering questions, giving people directions, or taking orders.

We have had more sales for this year’s grand prix than any other, and we have been helped in that by the fact that Jenson had 10 podiums last season and looks like a winner. It is good for British motor racing if he is there and doing well.

As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.

No one’s banging down my door. People see the way I look, and they don’t feel threatened, but they should watch out for me. They don’t know there’s a steel rod that drives me. I get ticked off, and the rage just gets me going. My motor is anger.

No major technological change has ever been instituted by mankind without an array of negative consequences. The motor car has meant liberation for millions, but it has also caused congestion, environmental damage, and a disturbing death toll on the roads.

I will do something, time to time, with motor racing. But I’ll never go back, I think, to drive full-time because I’ve lost that anger, that desire.

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

I looked at motor racing in America where at the Indy 500 the drivers are told ‘gentlemen start your engines’ and the crowd go wild because they know the race is about to start. I needed a hook and came up with ‘let’s get ready to rumble.’

Honestly, the angrier I am, the looser my tongue is… when I get angry, it’s just a motor mouth, and it just goes off, which is great, but it doesn’t really work unless I’m very, very passionate about what I’m talking about.

Winning ‘Motor Trend’ Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry.

Motor sport is very expensive. It’s unfortunate, because you see so much talent that never makes it to the top due to the lack of financial support.

As a broadly left-wing, environmentally aware urban believer in anthropogenic global warming, I am all for a total ban on motor vehicles.

My first car was an ’86 Honda Prelude. It was redone, so it had a new motor, new paint, rims… but it wasn’t nearly as much as my Range Rover.

We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.

Maybe I don’t have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

Unlike motor sport, I didn’t get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.

I wouldn’t dream of watching motor racing, cycling, or golf – which aren’t truly sports anyway.

To climb into an airplane and motor up by yourself, it is just amazing.

There’s an ancient connection between movement and music. Most languages don’t make a distinction between the words ‘music’ and ‘dance.’ And we can see that in the brain. When people are lying perfectly still but listening to music, the neurons in the motor cortex are firing.

When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.

F1 has to be the pinnacle of motor sport in terms of technology and performance.

Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.

We just want to make sure individuals who drive on our roads are not impaired and they are a responsible person behind a motor vehicle.

In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the wave frequency of the contraction and so the tension.

My first memory of motor racing – I think it was just attending a go kart race.

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.

Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal… coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.

I am a motorbike fanatic – always have been. It’s actually what I wanted to do before I got into motor racing.

This is motor racing. We go at very high speeds, and tires have always been deflating or exploding. It is just part of the sport.

I was limping through the streets of Auckland. I had a fall at three in the morning. I knew in my heart of hearts, being a trained doctor, that I had one of the big three: Parkinsons, motor neurone disease or multiple sclerosis. And I knew Parkinsons was the likely one.

It’s my motor, it’s the thing that keeps me going and so when I have these auditions for these big movies, I can depend on myself because I’ve been working consistently.

Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that’s really what it feels like.

The ‘Pro-Sim’ is pretty much the best simulator you can buy, because of the steering motor and the pedals. The force feedback we get through the steering is pretty much exactly the same as what we get in the actual car in terms of how heavy it is.

It’s a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car.

Cars have a large engine in the front and you have a gearbox, which is cumbersome. Electric cars don’t have this problem. The motor is much smaller, the battery is below you. This will allow you to play with different shapes.

As seventh graders, my classmates and I would make rockets to see what made them fly and models of remote-controlled motor boats because Palanpur had heavy rainfall.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.