Motor Racing Quotes

Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve. ~ Murray Walker

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

I was there when I said it. ~ Murray Walker

I owe a great debt to motor-racing, and the first place I went to in Europe when I was 20 was Italy, and I was extremely influenced by it in books until I got there. ~ Billy Al Bengston

That's the first time he had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in Canada earlier this year. ~ Murray Walker

And he's lost both right front tires. ~ Murray Walker

I have spent
or wasted
my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing and bull fighting as the only true sports. The rest, he sniffed, are merely games. ~ Brock Yates

To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster. ~ Stirling Moss

Gilles was the fastest driver in the history of motor racing ~ Jody Scheckter

I believe if you are doing something like competing, like motor racing, you either do well or forget it. ~ Ayrton Senna

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

And there's the man in the green flag! ~ Murray Walker

Frentzen is taking, er, reducing that gap between himself and Frentzen. ~ Murray Walker

Alboreto has dropped back up to fifth place. ~ Murray Walker

Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him ~ Murray Walker

As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing. ~ Carlos Ghosn

There are many different types of prioritites in Motor Racing, the first ... being how much you are willing to sacrifice in order to get to where you want to go. ~ Carroll Smith

You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing. ~ Murray Walker

Rally points scoring is twenty for the fastest, eighteen for the second fastest, right down to six points for the slowest fastest. ~ Murray Walker

One of my greatest pleasures in motor racing is qualifying. You have loads of freedom from pushing a lap the whole way. I've always been very good in qualifying in the past; everything I've done, I've got pole positions. ~ Bruno Senna

Schumacher wouldn't have let him past voluntarily. Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it. ~ Murray Walker

Mansell is slowing it down, taking it easy. Oh, no he isn't! It's a lap record. ~ Murray Walker

Stewart has two cars in the top five: Magnusson 5th and Barichello 6th. ~ Murray Walker

And there's no damage to the car. Except to the car itself. ~ Murray Walker

Alesi is in second place, and Hill is in second place. ~ Murray Walker

I can't imagine what kind of problem Senna has. I imagine it must be some sort of grip problem. ~ Murray Walker

Ferrari leads, McLaren second, McLaren second, Jordan third, and Benneton fifth and sixth. ~ Murray Walker

Motor Racing Outreach is great. They provide a chapel service every Sunday for drivers, wives, crew members, and others in the NASCAR industry so that we can gather and celebrate our faith. It's important to me to have this time before the race on Sundays. They also provide other services such as at-track childcare and counseling. ~ Austin Dillon

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

The appeal of the Riverside 500 was based on that overall spectacle of witnessing a mob of brightly colored, bellowing automobiles gamboling over the countryside like a herd of runaway steers. Stock car roadracing is in fact like a mechanical stampede, and we personally think it's maybe the neatest form of motor racing known to man. It's definitely the greatest spectacle in roadracing. ~ Brock Yates

At the start of each year I sit down and look at both calendars and plan it that way. Obviously sometimes there are some overlaps but I have to be organised. At the moment motor racing is taking precedence and I have been quite lucky this year in picking and choosing. ~ Liz Halliday

Schumacher has made his final stop three times. ~ Murray Walker

Look up there! That's the sky! ~ Murray Walker

Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that's really what it feels like. ~ Mario Andretti

Michael Schumacher is leading Michael Schumacher. ~ Murray Walker

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

It's lap 26 of 58, which unless I'm very much mistaken is half way. ~ Murray Walker

What's behind you doesn't matter. ~ Enzo Ferrari

Through F1, I bought my own boat. I learned to fly my own plane and helicopter. And my job with my company is a reflection of everything motor racing taught me. ~ Nelson Piquet

The European drivers have adapted to this circuit extremely quickly, especially Paul Radisich who's a New Zealander. ~ Murray Walker

Aerodynamics is for those who cannot manufacture good engines. ~ Enzo Ferrari

The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical. ~ Murray Walker

And the first five places are filled by five different cars. ~ Murray Walker

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

Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph. ~ Peter Dunne

As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto is fifth. ~ Murray Walker

You can't make a racehorse out of a pig. But if you work hard enough at it you can make a mighty fast pig. ~ Bob Akin

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

Far above him a few white clouds were racing windily after a pale gibbous moon. Drink all morning, they said to him, drink all day. This is life! ~ Malcolm Lowry

I was this guy who'd been racing around down there, on that field in 1999, running straight over people, scoring tries, winning games, having fun. And I ended up so sick I couldn't even run past a little baby. ~ Jonah Lomu

Symptoms of Amor Deliria Nervosa

PHASE ONE:
-preoccupation; difficulty focusing
-dry mouth
-perspiration, sweaty palms
-fits of dizziness and disorientation
-reduced mental awareness; racing thoughts; impaired reasoning skills

PHASE TWO:
-periods of euphoria; hysterical laughter and heightened energy
-periods of despair; lethargy
-changes in appetite; rapid weight loss or weight gain
-fixation; loss of other interests
-compromised reasoning skills; distortion of reality
-disruption of sleep patterns; insomnia or constant fatigue
-obsessive thoughts and actions
-paranoia; insecurity

PHASE THREE (CRITICAL):
-difficulty breathing
-pain in the chest, throat or stomach
-complete breakdown of rational faculties; erratic behavior; violent thoughts and fantasies; hallucinations and delusions

PHASE FOUR (FATAL):
-emotional or physical paralysis (partial or total)
-death

If you fear that you or someone you know may have contracted deliria, please call the emergency line toll-free at 1-800-PREVENT to discuss immediate intake and treatment. ~ Lauren Oliver

On a horse that consistently hung left-The best thing you can do is put a bit of lead in his right ear, to act as a counterbalance ... with a shotgun. ~ Lester Piggott

I didn't miss out on a family life because of racing. I had one because of it. ~ Richard Petty

Sometimes it's okay to be surprised. It's going to sound stupid, and I wouldn't ever say this out loud, but the way Theo and I came out to each other was sort of like getting caught in a thunderstorm. Storms can suck when they're knocking out power and ripping apart houses, no doubt. But other times the thunder is a soundtrack to something unpredictable, something that gets our hearts racing and wakes us up. If someone had warned me about the weather, I might have freaked out and stayed inside.
But I didn't. ~ Adam Silvera

It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991 ~ Alan Kulwicki

Simplify and add lightness ~ Colin Chapman

Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve. ~ Tom Wolfe

We disparage reason.
But all the time it's what we're most concerned with.
There's will as motor and there's will as brakes.
Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear. ~ Robert Frost

But we're not very good at building them. The forced matings of minds and electrons succeed and fail with equal spectacle. Our hybrids become as brilliant as savants, and as autistic. We graft people to prosthetics, make their overloaded motor strips juggle meat and machinery, and shake our heads when their fingers twitch and their tongues stutter. Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to the barely-intelligent creatures left
behind. ~ Peter Watts

Like everyone else, I don't want it to get too far away from the racing because as time progresses, we're trying to get new fans and still keep the old fans and we've still got to have the racing. ~ Richard Petty

Every year a thousand kilometers of motor-roads will be opened until the greatest work in the history of mankind is completed. ~ Adolf Hitler

Tonight isn't about racing to the finish line, it's about savoring our connection, savoring who we become when we are together," he coached, causing her breathing to slow with his words, reminding her that he would not tolerate being topped tonight, that she needed to enjoy the journey they were beginning together. ~ Josie Leigh

Boxing has always been a primarily urban pastime (whereas the defining suburban sport is auto-racing, in which the machine and its anonymous mechanics hold far greater importance than the driver). When white Americans left the cities, they left boxing as well. ~ A.J. Liebling

The Showdown is a great way to bring attention to these historic Virginia tracks where many NASCAR drivers cut their teeth in stock car racing, including myself. Tracks like South Boston and Langley are the heart of the sport and draw a great crowd to our Showdown events. ~ Denny Hamlin

My father instilled in me a love for racing. ~ Kurt Busch

Office Peone looked at John and wondered what mental illness he had. The Seattle streets were filled with the mostly-crazy, half-crazy, nearly crazy, and soon-to-be crazy. Indian, white, Chicano, Asian, men, women, children. The social workers did not have anywhere near enough money, training, or time to help them. The city government hated the crazies because they were a threat to the public image of the urban core. Private citizens ignored them at all times of the year except the few charitable days leading up to and following Christmas. In the end, the police had to do most of the work. Police did crisis counseling, transporting them howling to detox, the dangerous to jail, racing the sick to the hospitals, to a safer place. At the academy, Officer Peone figured he would be fighting bad guys. He did not imagine he would spend most of his time taking care of the refuse of the world. Peone found it easier when the refuse were all nuts or dumb-ass drunks, harder when they were just regular folks struggling to find their way off the streets. ~ Sherman Alexie

And now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance, But all dash to and fro in motor cars, Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere. ~ T. S. Eliot

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone. ~ Jessica Savitch

Key West has become an imitation of its former self, its eccentricities commoditized for sale to tourists. That "character" you see with a parrot on his shoulder is about as authentic as vinyl siding, employed to provide local color. Gargantuan cruise ships dock two or three times a week, disgorging passengers by the thousands to troll the cheesy T-shirt shops on the main drag, Duval Street. And with all sorts of diversions to keep visitors occupied, like parasailing and jet skiing, tourist season is year-round, clogging the streets with autos, bikes, motor scooters, and pedestrians. I ~ Philip Caputo

The uncertainty, the fear of the unknown was driving him, almost to the point of desperation. He felt as if he was going down a dark stairway, missing a step, hurtling into the unknown and having no idea where he would land. ~ Ken Puddicombe

It's all about racing on the track. ~ Adam Petty

The last 100 years of research into the human brain ... sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like the other organs in the body ... our emotions and higher callings, such as religion, as well as our grubby low-level physical systems like stereo vision and motor control, are products of a machine ... ~ Steven Pinker

Among those dazzled by the Administration team was Vice-President Lyndon Johnson. After attending his first Cabinet meeting he went back to his mentor Sam Rayburn and told him with great enthusiasm how extraordinary they were, each brighter than the next, and that the smartest of them all was that fellow with the Stacomb on his hair from the Ford Motor Company, McNamara. "Well, Lyndon," Mister Sam answered, "you may be right and they may be every bit as intelligent as you say, but I'd feel a whole lot better about them if just one of them had run for sheriff once." It is my favorite story in the book, for it underlines the weakness of the Kennedy team, the difference between intelligence and wisdom, between the abstract quickness and verbal fluency which the team exuded, and the true wisdom, which is the product of hard-won, often bitter experience. Wisdom for a few of them came after Vietnam. ~ David Halberstam

I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again. ~ Foxy Brown

Failure was startling, really. So startling that I hardly noticed it at all. ~ Jane Smiley

The car goes where the eyes go. ~ Garth Stein

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. ~ Travis Pastrana

I've been accustomed to mysteries, holy and otherwise, since I was a child. Some of us care for orphans, amass fortunes, raise protests or Nielsen ratings; some of us take communion or whiskey or poison. Some of us take lithium and antidepressants, and most everyone believes these pills are fundamentally wrong, a crutch, a sign of moral weakness, the surrender of art and individuality. Bullshit. Such thinking guarantees tradgedy for the bipolar. Without medicine, 20 percent of us, one in five, will commit suicide. Six-gun Russian roulette gives better odds. Denouncing these medicines makes as much sense as denouncing the immorality of motor oil. Without them, sooner or later the bipolar brain will go bang. I know plenty of potheads who sermonize against the pharmaceutical companies; I know plenty of born-again yoga instructors, plenty of missionaries who tell me I'm wrong about lithium. They don't have a clue. ~ David Lovelace

What if I can't do this, Gregori?" She sounded close to tears. "What if I can never do this?"
"No one is making you do anything, ma petite," he replied gently, kissing her stomach. "We are just exploring possibilites."
"But,Gregori," she tried to protest, attempting to bring his head back up so that he could see her very real fear for him, for their life together.
"If I cannot persaude you otherwise, mon amour, I am not much of a lifemate, now am I?" The words were muffled in the tight silky curls, the intriguing little triangle at the apex of her thighs.
"You don't understand,Gregori." Savannah closed her eyes against the waves of fire racing through her. "It's me who is no real lifemate.I don't know how to please you, and I'm so afraid of this."
"Relax,bebe." He breathed warm air against her, inhaled her scent. "You please me far more than you will ever know. ~ Christine Feehan

The recent actions by Kyle Busch are not consistent with the values of M&M'S and we're very disappointed. Like you, we hold those who represent our brand to a higher standard and we have expressed our concerns directly to Joe Gibbs Racing. ~ Denny Hamlin

The hunger and desire to go racing, however, never leaves your blood but the right opportunity has never really come along - until now that is. ~ Nigel Mansell

There was no reason whatever to make a wholesale choice between handicraft and machine production: between a single contemporary part of the technological pool and all the other past accumulations. But there was a genuine reason to maintain as many diverse units in this pool as possible, in order to increase the range of both human choices and technological inventiveness. Many of the machines of the nineteenth century, as Kropotkin pointed out, were admirable auxiliaries to handicraft processes, once they could be scaled, like the efficient small electric motor, to the small workshop and the personally controlled operation. William Morris and his colleagues, who almost single-handed salvaged and restored one ancient craft after another, by personally mastering the arts of dyeing, weaving, embroidering, printing, glass-painting, paper-making, book-binding, showed superior technological insight to those who scoffed at their romanticism. ~ Lewis Mumford

Nothing ever got my pulse racing (in a good way) like hockey. Well, nothing except Beyonce, but that wasn't until I was twelve or so. Then, all of a sudden, it was like I opened my eyes one day and noticed that the world is full of beautiful girls, and I've had a hard time thinking about anything else ever since. ~ Justin Bieber