Auto Racing Quotes:

Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built.

- Henry Ford

topic: Car, Racing, Minutes, Nascar Racing, Car Racing

What's behind you doesn't matter.

- Enzo Ferrari

topic: Motivational, Motor Racing, Car, Race Car, Car Racing

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

- Parnelli Jones

topic: Car, Enough, Nascar Racing, Race Car, Car Racing

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

- Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

topic: Motivational, Sports, Motor Racing, Nascar Racing, Race Car

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

- Stirling Moss

topic: Games, Car, Boundaries, Race Car, Car Racing

To finish first, you must first finish.

- Rick Mears

topic: Attitude, Firsts, Nascar Racing, Race Car, Car Racing

Once you've raced, you never forget it...and you never get over it.

- Richard Childress

topic: Car, Never Forget, Forget It, Race Car, Car Racing

You win a race, the next race it’s a question mark. Are you still the best or not? That’s what is funny. But that’s what is interesting. And that’s what is challenging. You have to prove yourself every time.

- Michael Schumacher

topic: Motivational, Winning, Race, Proving Yourself, Auto Racing

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

- Ayrton Senna

topic: Firsts, Formula 1, Formula One, Auto Racing

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Sports, Real, Fighting, Nascar Racing, Race Car

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

topic: Motivational, Car, Racing, Race Car, Car Racing

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

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Drug, Overcoming, Thrill, Biking, Nascar Racing

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

- Jeremy Clarkson

topic: Love, Car, Racing, Speed Limits, Car Racing

Race cars are neither beautiful nor ugly. They become beautiful when they win.

- Enzo Ferrari

topic: Beautiful, Winning, Race, Race Car, Car Racing

You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

- Dale Earnhardt

topic: Sports, Winning, Racing, Nascar Racing, Racing Driver

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

- Mario Andretti

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Motivational, Thinking, Nascar Racing, Race Car, Car Racing

The best way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a big one.

- Junior Johnson

topic: Racing, Way, Bigs, Car Racing, Funny Car Racing

Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.

- Damon Hill

topic: Dog, Funny Inspirational, Winning, Winning Is Everything, Race Motivational

When you're in the back of the pack, you can gamble a little bit more.

- Michael Andretti

source: "CHAMPCAR/CART: Michael Andretti Interview". Motorsport.com Interview, www.motorsport.com. May 17, 2000.

topic: Motivational, Racing, Littles, Auto Racing

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

- Paul Newman

topic: Law, Firsts, Useless, Car Racing, Race Motivational

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

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Motivational, Racing, Looks, Car Racing, Funny Car Racing

Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines.

- Enzo Ferrari

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Motor Racing, Aerodynamics, Car, Engines, Race Car

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

- Ayrton Senna

topic: Motivational, Winning, Race, Helmet, Car Racing

When I started racing my father told me, 'Cristiano, nobody has three balls but some people have two very good ones.'

- Cristiano da Matta

topic: Father, Two, People, Funny Racing, Auto Racing

You have to visualize a second or two ahead of your car what line you are taking, what you are going to do, before you get there because it comes too fast

- Emerson Fittipaldi

source: Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. August 2, 2002.

topic: Motivational, Two, Car, Creative Visualization, Auto Racing

It's like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium

- Dick Trickle

topic: Car, Flying, Fighter, Gymnasiums, Funny Racing

There have been other tracks that separated the men from the boys. This is the track that will separate the brave from the weak after the boys are gone.

- Jimmy Thompson

topic: Men, Boys, Car, Race Track, Funny Racing

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

- Ayrton Senna

topic: Winning, Second Chance, Race, Third Place, Race Car

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.

- Ayrton Senna

source: "Ayrton Senna: Racing Is in My Blood". Documentary, 1992.

topic: Determination, Racing, Mind, Formula 1, Formula One

I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.

- Valentino Rossi

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Motivational, Sports, Winning, Car Racing, Auto Racing

We broke something, I think it was traction...

- Carl Edwards

topic: Thinking, Car, Broke, Traction, Funny Racing

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

- Ayrton Senna

topic: Car, Different, Dimensions, Different Dimensions, Auto Racing

Nobody remembers the guy who finished second but the guy who finished second.

- Bobby Unser

source: Bobby Unser (2004). “Winners are Driven: A Champion's Guide to Success in Business and Life”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Car, Guy, Remember, Nascar Racing, Winning The Race

The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses.

- Mario Andretti

topic: Car, People, Missing, Nascar Racing, Race Car Driver

Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track, and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey, and you go to jail.

- Junior Johnson

topic: Home, Jail, Car, Nascar Racing, Race Car

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

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Sports, Games, Racing, Mountaineering, Bullfighting

There was a day when you could identify a NASCAR Ford, Chevrolet, or Dodge and they actually looked like "stock cars." Now they are pod machines, slick on the outside but still powered by the same Neanderthal carbureted pushrod V-8s that have been under their hoods for half a century. If this is real auto racing, then the WWF ought to be part of the Olympics.

- Brock Yates

topic: Real, Car, Racing, Neanderthals, Auto Racing

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.

- Smokey Yunick

topic: Cheating, Car, Way, Racing Driver, Funny Racing

The client is not always right.

- Enzo Ferrari

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Luxury, Car, Racing, Car Racing, Aerodynamics

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

- Dave Barry

source: Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.104, Ballantine Books

topic: Nascar Racing, Literature, Upside Down, Race Car, Car Racing

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

- Murray Walker

topic: Car, Racing, Four, Schumacher, Nascar Racing

When you win a race your on top that day, so take it for what its worth, have a good time and party, cause the next day when you get out of bed, the meter goes back to zero again.

- Bobby Allison

topic: Zero, Party, Winning, Race Car, Car Racing

If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower.

- Mark Donohue

topic: Two, Car, Black, Horsepower, Funny Racing

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

topic: Motivational, Opportunity, Blood, Auto Racing

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

- Murray Walker

topic: Unique, Car, Identical, Funniest Sports, Nascar Racing

Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

- Sebastian Vettel

topic: Car, Achievement, Racing, Formula 1, Formula One

And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing.

- Murray Walker

topic: Car, Racing, Important, Formula 1, Formula One

Turbochargers are for people who cant build engines.

- Keith Duckworth

topic: People, Car, Aerodynamics, Funny Racing, Auto Racing

You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means your brain is receiving information from your body what your car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.

- Emerson Fittipaldi

topic: Motivational, Football, Mean, Auto Racing