Racing Quotes

If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver.

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

As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

What's behind you doesn't matter.

Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines.

In racing there are always things you can learn, every single day. There is always space for improvement, and I think that applies to everything in life.

We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.

Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.

The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance.

Any car which holds together for a whole race is too heavy.

I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.

There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

If you're in control, you're not going fast enough.

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

It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.

If I'm out trailriding, I have a favorite motorcycle. Riding on the road, I've got a favorite. If I'm jumping, I have a favorite, and if I'm racing, I have a favorite.

It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.

When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.

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.

Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

Boogity, boogity boogity! Let’s go racing boys!

Pain is that last quarter of a mile. You feel it, but when you’re through racing, your whole body just feels elated. So the pain is worth it.