Best 164 quotes in «racing quotes» category

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a footballer and racing driver, like all kids.

When you see these characters like Captain America or Thor, laughing at their own situation or about how strange they are, then you are able to accept more readily that it's fine to wear a cape. You can also accept that it's fine to be enormous and green, or to shoot arrows at aliens racing through the sky. It all makes sense if you've been able to laugh at it and with it.

Why is your heart racing Tris?

When there's somebody racing side-by-side, when somebody's right next to me and they're pushing and we're both tired, we're both fatigued, I want to be able to beat them mentally.

You are always racing against the other swimmers, but I always try to just focus on what I'm doing and how I want to swim my races.

He's tall with shaggy blond hair and muscular arms. He's holding a twenty-dollar bill. He's muscular. And he's holding a twenty--wait, I already said that.

Your luck goes up and down like swings and roundabouts

I want to be the best race horse around when I grow up, Mama. You can be, Charlie, as long as you are willing to try your best and not give up when you have a bad day.

I hate studying and I hate partying. But I'm okay with motocross. And muscles. Motocross and Muscles. Now that should be a Lifetime movie.

Putting down the power right from the whistle would be ugly and brutal, but it would get the job done. He wanted to tell her that, but this was the thing with coaching: you had to step back at exactly the moment you ached to step forward.

After 20 years of racing career the most important lessons I learned is that you need to have the passion and really love to ride your bike every day at the highest level. Also, for me personally, my goal was to always try to beat another generation, to try to beat the sport again. Trying to develop myself even when I was 37 years old.

All Politicians should be required to wear uniforms like Racing Car Drivers with patches showing the donations received from special interest groups so we know who has paid them off!

Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.

When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.

It was very quiet at the hotel, as if there had been a death in the family. When you have quit the Tour, nobody really knows what to say or do. (...) Everything I'd previously achieved meant nothing; all I was now was a pro rider who couldn't finish the Tour de France.

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, he understood, but to be with each other.

Well, good afternoon, sunshine. How are you feeling?" "Like something the cat dragged in, then dragged back outside to leave in the rain, and mud, then the lightning hit it, and burned it, and the cat came back to tear it into pieces, before burying it.

Acting is like racing, you need the same concentration. You have to reach inside you and bring forth a lot of broken glass. That's painful.

Alboreto has dropped back up to fifth place.

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.

At the end of the day I'm not racing for recognition, I'm not racing for popularity, that's not who I am. I'm focused on the result and trying to get the best out of myself from a sporting capacity. That's what really motivates me.

As far as cheating goes, they'll never stop it. The only way it can be done successfully, only one person can know about it.

CART is one of the safest racing series in the world.

Can you giggle while racing for your life and protecting a six-year-old? I can.

And I guess the thing that I really sort of rely on in me is that I love racing and I love competing and so I know that you know when the time comes and the pressure's on and I have to swim well, I'm sort of able to pull it out and sort of get the best out of myself.

Cruelty is the luxury of those who have nothing to do, like drugs or racing stables.

Ever since I've been racing, I've always been the young guy.

Driving is something really special for me. Even women doesn't excite me as much as racing cars! I guess I'm just becoming old.

Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.

[Formula One racing] will be very different - as the technology will be very different and that will make fans consume it in a completely different way. I said before that I believe that Virtual Reality will hit it big time.

[Formula One] is entertainment and it competes with other entertainments - and not with other racing formats. It competes with people's time on a weekend. So you have to deliver.

From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.

Going to car racing school was phenomenal.

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

Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony. In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe; in golf it is yourself against the world: no human being stays your progress as you drive your ball over the face of the globe.

Footballers are kept in such a bubble that horse racing is a release.

Horse racing is really much more intimidating than anything having to do with literature. When I had horses at the racetrack, I would wake up in terror in a way that I would never wake up while working on a novel.

Horse racing is animated roulette.

Guys, you can date whomever you want, but marry a girl who can back up a trailer.

I am focused on racing. I enjoy it. It's a great feeling to be back fighting for the title.

I am not motivated by recognition, I just do things I like doing - racing, shagging, eating and drinking.

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

How smartly September comes in, like a racing gig, all style, no confusion.

I don't play racing games, unless it's 'Mario Kart.

I don't see myself racing at 50 years old. I enjoy racing, and that has been my whole life. But one day I will take time to look at other things. I know that everything has an end date, even life, and I also have a family and there are other things to enjoy than trying to be first into the corner and fastest out.

I am a racer. I'm not a race car driver. I am a racer. I race. That's what I do. I don't go on vacations. I don't take my family on vacations because I don't have a family. My family is the racing family.

I enjoy racing so much. Ever since I was 8 or 9, I trained every stroke, because it was the only way I could race a lot.

I don't tend to listen to music in training, except maybe the radio in the gym. I do use music prior to racing though; it helps to fire me up plus it's good for blocking out the distractions around me.

If CART continues on, it's just going to drag all of open-wheel racing down.

If at first you don't succeed, then drag racing isn't for you.