Best 164 quotes in «racing quotes» category

Many people thought that riding for a new team and racing on a brand new bike would be a lot to overcome.

Michael Schumacher is leading Michael Schumacher.

Money is how we keep the score in motor racing nowadays.

My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack.

Money, horse racing and women: three things the boys just can't figure out.

Mr. Bentley - He builds fast trucks.

My dad knew that if I wanted to make a career out of it, I needed to go to NASCAR rather than dirt racing. Personally, I like dirt racing a little bit more. It's a little more fun.

My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute. One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.

My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art.

My team has been very unreceptive about the fact that I consistently show them that I train slightly differently than they do, that I consistently show them that I am in better shape for ski racing than anyone else on the team.

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

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

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

No, it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end of the straightaway in high gear. Too much power is never enough.

My uncertain temper is cooling, as is my sense of racing against time to accomplish the things I want to. I don't have to go anywhere or see anyone I don't want to now, and it is a glorious feeling!

Never ever doubt in magic.

Owning a racehorse is probably the most expensive way of getting on to a racecourse for nothing.

Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.

Offering multiple games to reach such a broad audience is a great way to create awareness about horse racing. Obviously, my favorite is the jockey game. It's very realistic.

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.

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

Racing cars which have been converted for road use never really work. It's like making a hard core adult film, and then editing it so that it can be shown in British hotels. You'd just end up with a sort of half hour close up of some bloke's sweaty face.

Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.

Racing has become more show time; we've got to have something new to create interest in the sport.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.

Racing a marathon is a true and simple way to test the human spirit. Whether it goes perfectly or poorly you will certainly learn something about yourself and be a better person for having tackled the distance.

Racing should never be an ordeal, rather an enjoyable and life-enhancing experience.

Regardless, we are a two career household, and it's Dario's season, and I'm really excited about going racing.

Road racing is rock 'n roll; track is Carnegie Hall.

Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.

Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

She felt as if she had been running, and had created a hill and was racing down the other side, and there was no stopping now. Gravity was taking her where she had to go. "But -- everyone cares about something. Don't they?

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

Ski racing is not about how much you weigh. If weight was the key, everybody would be sucking down food.

So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest, most powerful societies in world history, like the United States and Canada, are racing full-speed ahead to destroy the environment as quickly as possible.

Sometimes you have to bring back only the steering wheel so the car owner will know that you're giving it all you have.

Stardom equals financial success and financial success equals security. I've spent too much of my life feeling insecure. I still have nightmares about being poor, of everything I own just vanishing away. Stardom means that can't happen.

That's the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to see how wonderful your life it.

Tears streamed down my face as I crossed the finish line. I was a new person, a runner.

That's what I love about running - I feel like we all celebrate each other. Even if you're racing somebody at the finish, it's like you're in it together.

The 2006 event logo combines the twin spires of Churchill Downs, one of the great signature elements in sports, with the greatest international day of Thoroughbred racing. We look forward to displaying the logo widely throughout the commonwealth of Kentucky, and to our international outlets.

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

The competition in today's world of racing is so tough.

The makeup of the drivers has changed a lot with so many young drivers coming and a lot of the legends moving on. Compared to when I started, it's gone through a lot of changes. The cars have changed a lot and the approach to racing. There are a lot more employees. It's become a much bigger business and more corporate.

The ideal racecar will expire 100 yards past the finish line.

The lower classes are such fools. They waste their money on the pools. I bet, of course, but that's misleading. One must encourage bloodstock breeding.

Nothing's about taking risks as much as doing stuff that other people haven't done before. Just like in racing, it's not about taking risks but trying to figure out how to be faster.

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

There are those who keep out of mischief, and there are the adventurers, ‘ he said. “We racing drivers are adventurers; the more difficult something is, the greater the attraction that comes from it.