My best friend growing up was a truck driver, and it was big in truck stops. He’d have his ‘Deadwood’ DVDs, and they’d watch them in the lounge.
I usually have a driver, or take a taxi. But I’m down to earth. I like to clean the kitchen, I iron and wash my wife’s car! I just don’t usually take trains.
I’m the slowest driver in the world.
Driver has always been fine, and the rest of the clubs have been fine. It’s just for some reason, the 3-wood… that’s just one of those clubs.
My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.
I’m not exaggerating when I say ‘Taxi Driver’ was the movie that stopped me in my tracks. That was the first time it got me thinking about movies.
Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.
As a British driver, you get compared to Lewis and I get that. But when he came to McLaren, they were doing well and had a championship-winning car. I’m in a very different situation so I don’t compare myself to his stats.
Since I was a child I’ve been looking up to Formula One. Dreaming to be a Formula One driver.
American people are very patriotic, but there is no driver to get behind and support. I don’t see why Formula One cannot be something America is a part of. I wouldn’t say it’s too European at all.
Belonging has always been a fundamental driver of humankind.
I’ve been a pretty impatient driver my entire life.
Growing up on Long Island, I think Billy Joel albums come with your driver’s license.
I will give my very best to develop both as a driver, and to be part of the challenge to put the Sauber F1 Team back closer to the front where it belongs.
You know, it helps having an African American driver behind the wheel. I’m representing that culture and that background. But a lot of background pressure, I don’t really put that on me. I know I have enough pressure to go out and perform every week.
I’d like to thank the management at Force India for giving me the chance to return to Formula One as a team driver.
It’s very, very special for me. This is where I’ve grown up, it’s my home, and winning the Monaco Grand Prix is the highlight of any racing driver’s career and for me a childhood dream. It being my home makes it all the more special, unbelievable.
I don’t think people realize how much that means to a driver when they see you wearing their T-shirt. It goes a long way for me.
Many of the strategy houses don’t have the depth of world-class risk capability that a KPMG has, particularly in industries where regulation is a key driver, such as financial services or healthcare.
Rather than being an impediment, NASA can and should be the driver of commerce, the provider of the technology necessary to make some big money in space. The truth is that private enterprise already has a huge presence up there.
I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.
I’ve been traveling around to play music since before I even had a driver’s license.
I just always wanted to be a baseball announcer. I’m a huge Mets fan, and I wanted to be the next Bob Murphy. As far as careers go, that was the first career that I really thought about. Well, before that, I wanted to be a Mello Yello truck driver.
My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.
My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
You don’t get John Gotti to testify against his driver. You get the driver to testify against John Gotti.
As a driver, it is important to focus on yourself and believe in yourself, and there shouldn’t be a reason why, when you are in F1 and there is more attention, you change your approach.
My paternal poppa, Alec, was a taxi driver and swimming coach. He taught all his grandchildren how to swim and loved all kinds of sport.
The classical actor in England makes roughly the equivalent of a bus driver.
I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.
Tech is a key driver of social and economic change, and around the world, women like me are transforming businesses, industries, and communities.
When I describe myself as fat to people, whether it’s a driver, anywhere around the world, or a friend, and I’m like, ‘Oh, it’s just because I’m fat,’ people are like, ‘Don’t say that about yourself.’
My favorite change is taking traction control away and launch control, because my starts are pretty good, I think, and I make always some places up in the start and I think that will be great if that comes back to the driver’s hand.
It’s tough being a racecar driver and being a Christian and going to church.
I’ve played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of ‘Waiting for Godot.’ I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I’ve had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.
As a driver, it was easy to find the negative in things. But when I got out of the car, everything about the sport, my whole perception of just about everything in the sport, did a 180.
The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
So in some ways my life, my background has been isolating and I think I’m a bit more scared as a person. I don’t walk alone or in the dark. If I go out the driver will wait for me to go into the house.
I went out with some old friends and we were having fun. A couple of them were very intoxicated. When I went to leave, I refused to let them drive. So when I got pulled over, I was the driver.
I grew up on a council estate in south London; my dad was a bus driver and my mum sewed clothes to bring in extra money. My parents worked hard and were able to save up and buy a home for our family.
A NASCAR guy can drop-kick another driver through his car window and it is just considered part of the sport. Hockey players drop their sticks and pound on one another on a regular basis and no one dares blame it on anything other than just a boiling, competitive spirit.
It is not only about just doing a fast lap. You also need to use your brains and be clever, and I think that is what makes you a complete driver at the end.
It was harder to get my driver’s license than to get pregnant and give birth.
When I started go-karting at the age of six, I always dreamt of becoming a Formula One driver.
Sponsoring is very important for Formula One and, if a driver can help with it, it’s a help.
To be a racing driver it’s essential you have very good eyesight, and that’s especially relevant at night. Your senses are heightened, you’re travelling over 200mph, you need to focus on that 110-metre braking point and you have to have absolute faith and commitment in your driving.
Monaco is a very special event in its own right, and the atmosphere is quite crazy! As a driver, you have to stay calm and relaxed and try to do your job.
All of our fans are passionate and each driver that they want to cheer for is really respectful of all the other drivers – it’s a really cool sport to be around.
I was happy to ski and play a lot of ice hockey. But I’ve come back because I was – and am – a racing driver. This is what I do.
Every racing driver in the world dreams of making it to F1, there’s only 22 spots on the grid.
I don’t listen to the radio, cause I don’t have a driver’s license. But if I’m in L.A. or somewhere where we have to rent a car, I’ll hear my songs. Sometimes I hear them when I’m in stores, and I’m still like a little kid in a candy shop: ‘Oh my God, that’s my song!’ I don’t know how that could ever get old.
If the bus driver is black, I thank him… when I get off at my spot, whereas I would never think of doing this if the driver were white.
What’s really the driver of talent is not raw ability. It’s not even just experience. It’s what’s called ‘deliberate practice,’ which is to say, if you do something a lot, you get really good at it.
I think as a team we do OK with this because we are new and we need the drivers so we appreciate more if they do good for us than an established team, because you know it all and you know this environment here, it’s like ‘it cannot be me, it must be the driver’.
I’m still a Red Bull driver. I’m part of this family more than ever.
I rate myself as a driver, but I think everybody does.
I ask myself, ‘Why can’t a truck driver have the right to carry a gun?’ Just think about it; put yourself in the shoes of a truck driver. He nods off at the petrol station… and when he wakes up the next day, his spare tyre has gone.
I’m a really bad driver. When I’m in L.A. my husband always has to park the car for me, because I’m likely to hit something.
I did some pretty bad things as a teenager. When I was 13, I took my friend’s mom’s car out for a joyride, and I actually managed to hit somebody else’s car. No one was hurt, but needless to say, I didn’t get behind the wheel again until I had my driver’s license.
I’m actually not a very good driver, to be honest with you. I’m a scatterbrain driver. I’m not very focused. I’m always trying to find the right music station or put on a new CD or trying to eat something.
