Racing Quotes - Page 11

Gilles was the fastest driver in the history of motor racing

I didn't get into racing to make friends.

There are so many people who have died of cycling, and that didn't happen when I was racing.

The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

Indy car racing is much more aggressive.

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

I just bought a Lambourghini, I'm not even into racing with a windshield full of tickets cause I live right by the station.

I feel like I'm the most competitive driver in the motorhome lot. No matter what it is - whether we're racing, playing another sport or deciding who can run to that sign and back faster - I feel like I'm the most competitive person alive.

I bought my first horse when I was 15. I always loved racing and I started studying about breeding and I've been doing it now for 30 years, so I have some credibility.

In what other sport do you get a 15-second break every hour?

Polo, racing and horse shows all are doing great work to help the farmer and rancher to raise better horses.

Every once in a while someone along the road lets us know how far behind we are. A man shouts: ‘Faster!’ He probably thinks bicycle racing is about going fast.

Racing is licking your opponent's plate clean before starting on your own

When you shift the gear and that little needle on the tach goes into the red and reads 9,000 rpm, that's bad.

Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.

The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.

I didn't see the time, largely because there wasn't one.

Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve.

A mediocre season for Nelson Piquet as he is now known and always has been.

Brundle is driving an absolutely pluperfect race.

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

Tombay's hopes, which were nil before, are absolutely zero now

The tires are called wets, because they're used in the wet. And these tires are called slicks, because they're very slick.

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

I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.