Great Racing Quotes:
“In the old days, drivers were fat and tires were skinny.” -Foilan Gonzalez – Ferrari Team driver in the early 1950s
“I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.” -unkown
“I feel safe when I’m on the racetrack, I really do. I know that I’m surrounded by the best drivers in the world. That’s something you can’t say when you’re driving down the interstate.” – Sterling Marlin
“I feel safer on a racetrack than I do on Houston’s freeways.” – A. J. Foyt
“I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.” -Ayrton Senna
“It is amazing how may drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.” -Mario Andretti
“It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance.”- Jackie Stewart
“It’s basically the same, just darker.” -Alan Kulwicki – on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons.
“Life may begin at 30, but it doesn’t get real interesting until about 150.” -unknown
“Never run out of real estate, traction and ideas at the same time.” -unknown
“The number of laps remaining is always one more than the amount of fuel left in the car.” -unknown
“The number of times you get hit in a pileup is directly proportional to the number of times you said ‘I think it will go ok today’.” – unknown
“On the other side of fear there is freedom!” -unknown
“Once you’ve raced, you never forget it…and you never get over it.” -Richard Childress
“Oversteer is when your a$$ hits the wall, Understeer is when your face hits the wall!” -unknown
“Oversteer scares passengers, understeer scares drivers.” -unknown
“A part never breaks during a test session, only during a race. And the part you need will be the one you left at the shop.” -unknown
“The price for men in motion is the occasional collision…” – Carroll Smith
“Race cars are neither beautiful nor ugly. They become beautiful when they win.” – Enzo Ferrari
“Racing is living, everything else is just waiting.” -unknown
“Racing is the process of turning money into noise.” -unknown
“Second place is the first loser.” -Dennis Anderson
“Straights are for fast cars. Turns are for fast drivers.” -unknown
“There’s no secret. You just press the accelerator to the floor and steer left.” -Bill Vukovich
“To achieve anything in this game you must be prepared to dabble in the boundary of disaster.” – Sterling Moss
“When I look fast, I’m not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.” -Alain Prost
– thanks to zuzulo56
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