Tom Kristensen quotes
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“Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.”
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“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.”
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“I never had any financial support or sponsors, and so I always had to, at every level, prove myself the hard way. I was five years in Japan before I got my debut at Le Mans. And I think this is a humble way to get through as a racing driver.”
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“Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team member. And being a team member makes you a better person.”
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“Le Mans takes the best out of everyone. Winning is important but it's not everything. It's such a big and great event in motorsport. You do more kilometres in that one race than Formula One do in a season, and probably a higher average speed. We average about 220km/h including pit stops and cover nearly 5000km.”
-- Tom KristensenSource : "Off the clock: Tom Kristensen interview". Interview with Eric Thompson, www.nzherald.co.nz. July 23, 2011.
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“The trick at Le Mans is to get the car 'in the window.' Everything is critical: the tyre pressure, the brake temperature, and that means you have to push the car a lot to get it into the window - it's about getting everything to work right and getting the car to flow through the corners.”
-- Tom KristensenSource : "Off the clock: Tom Kristensen interview". Interview with Eric Thompson, www.nzherald.co.nz. July 23, 2011.
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“Yes, with Le Mans, obviously, the approach needs to be different. You have a race only once a year, so in the whole focus, the whole energy, you know that you cannot change the world and have a race two weeks later.”
-- Tom Kristensen
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“Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy”
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Source : Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.
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Source : "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture". Book by Abbie Hoffman, p. 297, 1980.
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“Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship”
Source : Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2013). “The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st-Century Church”, p.93, Baker Books
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“I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.”
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“Nothing will ever be what the Voyager mission was,”
Source : "Astronomer's 'cosmic connection' to Saturn" By Bjorn Carey, www.cnn.com. February 15, 2005.
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