Top 525 Racing Quotes

I just always dreamed of racing cars, but I didn’t think I could do it as a living.

Especially with sports cars, when you have got so many cars on the track with various degrees of competitiveness, then something will happen. It’s the nature of racing, the law of averages. If you want to be a front-runner then you are going to have to push very hard, and collisions can happen.

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.

My whole life is about racing, and of course everybody wants to do the same with your son. Being a father and doing motor racing with him goes hand in hand.

If you had 25 races or 20 races, something like that, there’d be more of a demand for the race ticket. I think you’d probably see better racing because of it, too, honestly. Because the less chances we have to get wins, the more aggressive we’re going to be.

Racing is what I love, so it’s pretty simple. I want to keep doing it and keep winning.

I always wanted to be a racing driver. Even if it was not F1, it would be something else.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

Racing is all I’ve ever wanted to do since I was little, so for me to say I’m not enjoying what I’m doing every weekend would be a big lie.

That’s what stock-car racing is. You hit someone, or you get hit. That’s something I had to learn. It’s a key factor in why I’m so aggressive. I don’t want to have to hit you. But if you’re going to hit me, I’m going to hit you.

Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I’m living my dream.

I’ve lived out many of the dreams I had as a little girl, back when I was riding my pony, mucking stalls, feeding cows, aspiring to finally become a professional jockey and racing in stakes races on a worldwide stage.

As a racing driver, everything you do is to get to Formula 1 and one day it stops.

It’s a strange position to be in. Not only the fact that I’m trying to live off work that is personal, but how you get the money for that is racing around the country and smiling for people and selling the record, you know what I mean?

Racing thoughts was the biggest hurdle to consistent meditation for me. I could sit down, but then I was left with this interior world of thoughts.

My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.

My son is racing his first 24-hour this year with Porsche.

I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

Over the Thanksgiving holiday I took time to reflect on what is most important to me and realized I need to find a way to put the fun back into racing.

Racing runs in the blood of my family and my dream was to do the Dakar one day.

This is motor racing, and things can change pretty quickly.

It’s not a small thing, it’s a pandemic, but economically we should not be in this position that we are this fragile as an industry. We don’t go racing for three months and we are on the verge of collapsing, which is amazing.

I was just cruising around the streets of South Beach and got scouted. Two ladies stopped my parents and said, ‘This kid needs to try the sport of inline speed skating,’ so I did and I remember falling in love with it and the thrill of racing.

My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because I was always daydreaming about racing. I never thought for a moment about doing anything else. There was no guarantee that I’d make a career in it but I never had any plan B.

This is what I have always done in my life, just racing and driving cars and go-karts fast.

What an electric thrill it sends up and down the spine, how it sets the heart racing: A Royal Romance! A Royal Wedding! The pomp and the pageantry!

Drag racing has played a big role in In-N-Out’s history, and it is also an important part of my family history.

Horse racing is animated roulette.

Throughout my whole racing career, I was always asked about being a woman in a man’s world. Interestingly when you are in that world, there’s no reason for it to be a man’s world, there are successful women and I didn’t find there to be any barriers to stop me from being successful.

On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program.

I don’t want to be a disabled guy racing against others – I want to be a disabled guy beating them.

Allowing casinos to operate without having races could result in the end of dog racing in Florida as we know it. Right now, greyhound racing is in many cases a money-losing proposition, but the dog tracks are forced to continue it because they have to have races in order to operate the lucrative casinos.

I fought my grandfather like you wouldn’t believe. I went my own way and decided to become a racing driver. I don’t think I would ever have fought as hard as I did if my grandfather had been a reasonable person.

People have different ideas on how to increase female racing driver participation. My belief is that men and women should compete together.

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.

The sport of horse racing which, at its best, showcases the majestic beauty of this animal and the athleticism of jockeys, has reached an alarming level of corruption and exploitation.

Again, racing for me was about energy management.

But since we’ve been fighting for first or second place, it’s grabbed the media’s attention. I enjoy racing them. They are a good team and when you beat them it’s something to be proud of.

Sitting beside the pool is fine for two weeks, but after that I think it’d be quite hard to live with – so I need to keep racing.

Beside the brand-ambassador elements of the modern racing driver, the evolution of the athlete has mandated that as drivers, we are very committed to fitness.

I’m very good at compartmentalising my life. I did motor-racing for a while, stopped, didn’t miss it. I did power-boat racing for a while, stopped, didn’t miss it. I had such a good run at the BBC. I had a hell of a CV with arguably the greatest broadcasting organisation in the world. But I’ve never missed it since.

I think Stirling Moss represents everything that a racing driver should be and first of all, it’s passion.

I grew up in the North of England at a time when Stirling Moss was a hero. Everyone wanted to be a racing driver.

I’ve never had any issues with racism or racist people at the track for as long as I’ve been racing in NASCAR. All of that stuff that has happened to my face took place when I was coming up. And a lot of what I get now on social media is 13- and 14-year-old kids just trying to act tough. Well, I’ll call them out.

I like movies that are scary, but I don’t want them to be dirt dumb. I want a movie that gets my blood racing, makes me laugh, but also gives me something to think about, with maybe a little sexy thrown in. Hollywood doesn’t make movies like that.

My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble.

I grew up with my mum, so I’m very, very close to her. But I’m close to my dad as well, and we talk about racing a lot, as we share that passion. I guess that’s quite normal.

I come from an ordinary family – my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker – and we’ve always loved racing together.

I enjoy racing because I want to do it. No one’s forcing me.

Five years before my accident in 2003, you saw Kobe and Shaq pull up to games on bikes. Michael Jordan owned a racing team. So it wasn’t that weird that I was on a motorcycle, even though it was against team rules. You’ve got to live your life, you know? But yeah, I made a dumb choice.

I do a lot of charity rides and we always use the colour pink on the vehicles and we create these bespoke pink racing suits. One of the bikes is pink leopard print!

We do not invest in advertising… So racing is the best advertising for Ferrari.

When it comes to my racing career I’m very driven and very selfish. People who are around me at races will know that I’m a different person here than in my personal life. I completely blank people at races. I need to be focused. I’m rude.

Like most manic depressives, some of my symptoms included racing thoughts that I simply had to act upon – flying from New York to Paris and taking the train to Berlin; flying to Argentina in the middle of the night; spending tens of thousands of dollars on unnecessary garments, dinners and gifts.

If the Indy Racing League didn’t have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.