Formula One Quotes:

[Maurizio Arrivabene is quite a character] but only for himself and not for Formula One.

- Bernie Ecclestone

topic: Character, Formulas, 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

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

IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards.

- Murray Walker

topic: Long, Racing, Facts, Long Words, Formula 1

Im an extremist so Im either hated or loved. I think its down to when I first got to Formula One not always knowing what I was saying, saying things that mean one thing but people were taking the other way and then people dont forget.

- Lewis Hamilton

topic: Mean, Thinking, Knowing, Formula 1, Formula One

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

- Ayrton Senna

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

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

I have always been very calm on the outside.

- Fernando Alonso

source: Interview with Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2005.

topic: Calm, Stressed Out, One For Me, Formula One

Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

- Sebastian Vettel

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

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

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

Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

- Ayrton Senna

topic: Blood, Racing, Standing Out, Formula 1, Formula One

In fact, if you were interested in a global platform there are only three sporting events: probably the most powerful - or equally powerful [to F1] - are the World Cup and the Olympics, and then Formula One. And there it gets interesting.

- Martin Sorrell

source: Source: www.formula1.com

topic: Powerful, Interesting, Events, Formula One

In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One.

- Fernando Alonso

source: "Fernando Alonso: 'My father was right - Ferrari gives you a special feeling'". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2010.

topic: Rights, Tvs, Spain, Formula One

Every year we find something new, we go faster, and that's what Formula One is about .

- Michael Schumacher

topic: Years, Something New, Faster, Formula One

I cant really imagine life without Formula One,

- Michael Schumacher

topic: Imagine, Formulas, Formula One

Ive just got to do a good job and stay on in Formula One for as long as I can.

- Kimi Raikkonen

topic: Jobs, Long, Good Job, Formula One

There are many young talents in Brazil. There is a lot of hope in Felipe Massa. It is very difficult to judge him in his first year, but by the end of the end we are going to have a better position how he does in Formula One.

- Emerson Fittipaldi

topic: Years, Judging, Brazil, Formula One, Young Talent

I think Formula E truly has the potential to become the future of motorsport. Formula One is the past.

- Sam Bird

topic: Past, Thinking, Motorsports, Formula One

I think there's a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.

- Danica Patrick

topic: Sports, Team, Thinking, Formula One

The next stage of Sebastian Vettel Formula One career will be spent with Scuderia Ferrari and for Sebastian Vettel Scuderia Ferrari means the dream of a lifetime has come true, When I was a kid, Michael Schumacher in the red car was my greatest idol and now it 's an incredible honor to finally get the chance to drive a Ferrari.

- Sebastian Vettel

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

topic: Schumacher, Formula One, Vettel

I have been waiting to win a world championship since 1985. I've had three cracks at a world title - in karting, I finished third at Le Mans; that hurt because it was very close, but then in Formula One there wasn't really an opportunity to finally crack it, so it's third time lucky.

- Allan McNish

topic: Hurt, Opportunity, Winning, Formula One

Maybe Formula One should have an inversion rule in qualifying.

- Bob Varsha

topic: Inversions, Should, Formulas, Qualifying, Formula One

Formula one is very one-dimensional in terms of what we do in the cockpit.

- Mark Webber

topic: Cockpit, Formula One

It is going to be special to drive in the Netherlands because it means I can take part in a Formula One demonstration in a country where I have a lot of family and friends.

- Nelson Piquet

topic: Country, Mean, Special, Netherlands, Formula One

We love Formula One and think Formula One's great. But we think Formula E is different. We would be making a big mistake if we tried to compete with Formula One and be similar to Formula One, we have to be radically different to Formula One to have a chance of survival. I don't mean survival by beating Formula One but co-existing complimentary to Formula One.

- Richard Branson

topic: Love, Mistake, Mean, Formula One, Big Mistake

We are made of emotions, we are all looking for emotions, it's only a question of finding the way to experience them. There are many different ways of experience them all. Perhaps one different thing, only that, one particular thing that Formula One can provide you, is that you know we are always expose to danger, danger of getting hurt, danger of dying.

- Ayrton Senna

topic: Hurt, Dying, Way, Getting Hurt, Formula One

Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.

- Mario Andretti

topic: Morning, Watches, Nascar, Formula One

If you run a country and want to put it on the global map you don't have so many choices. You can get the Olympics, the World Cup or a Formula One race. And the first two are only every four years - and you have them only once.

- Martin Sorrell

source: Source: www.formula1.com

topic: Country, Running, Race, World Cup, Formula One

I think as a 20-year-old you expect life to always be easy. You get given a good hand and the chance to race in Formula One. You think the driver can make the difference, can make up for everything else within the team. But that is not the case. You are racing in such a competitive sport so that doesn't happen.

- Jenson Button

topic: Competitive Sports, Formula One

The banks don't have anything - no rights whatsoever. The banks are shareholders of SLEC, and SLEC has no rights. I am the CEO of Formula One Management and Formula One Administration, which runs the business in F1. From this point of view, I own F1.

- Bernie Ecclestone

source: November 23, 2004.

topic: Running, Rights, Views, Formula One

The fast growing markets - the BRICS and Next Eleven - are the key. The next billion consumers are not going to come from the US or Western Europe - they are coming from Asia, Latin America and Africa. Formula One follows our strategy: fast growing markets, data, and digital. All those three things Formula One has. And it involves a stunning array of companies. Now that doesn't mean there can't be more.

- Martin Sorrell

source: Source: www.formula1.com

topic: Latin, Mean, America, Western Europe, Formula One

Virtual Reality for Formula One could be fantastic - driving the car!

- Martin Sorrell

source: Source: www.formula1.com

topic: Reality, Car, Driving, Virtual Reality, Formula One

Formula One does very well. It is a very interesting asset. Could it be run in a different way? Sure it could be. Could it be improved? I'm sure it could. But all I can say is, it seems to do pretty well.

- Martin Sorrell

source: Source: www.formula1.com

topic: Running, Interesting, Doe, Formula One

[Formula One racing] will be very different - as the technology will be very different and that will make fans consume it in a completely different way. I said before that I believe that Virtual Reality will hit it big time.

- Martin Sorrell

source: Source: www.formula1.com

topic: Believe, Technology, Reality, Formula One

I go to see grand prix every year, and I watch every race on TV for sure. I probably go to three or four CART races and three or four Formula One races.

- Emerson Fittipaldi

topic: Years, Race, Three, Carts, Formula One

Formula One was a very dangerous sport. It still is dangerous. But the danger factor is also the exciting part.

- Lewis Hamilton

source: Source: www.cbsnews.com

topic: Sports, Danger, Exciting, Dangerous Sports, Formula One

Nothing can really prepare you for when you get in the Formula One car. Knowing that you're driving a multimillion-dollar car, and if you crash it it's going to cost a lot of money, and they might not give you another chance, is scary.

- Lewis Hamilton

source: Source: www.cbsnews.com

topic: Knowing, Car, Giving, Formula One

The fast, flowing parts, the high-speed corners, that's where a Formula One car is at its best - changes of direction, pulling high g-forces left and right.

- Jenson Button

topic: Car, Speed, Force, Formula One, G Force

I can't eat whatever I want, definitely not. I'm always controlled because I do a lot of fitness and triathlons, not just Formula One, so I always make sure I eat the right things.

- Jenson Button

topic: Formula One, Triathlon

As a Formula One driver, you dream about winning your first race all your life. I am desperate to know what it feels like.

- Sergio Perez

topic: Dream, Winning, Race, Formula One

I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States.

- Danica Patrick

topic: Dream, England, Compromise, Formula One, Bashful

In sport there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

- Michael Schumacher

topic: Sports, Years, Perfect, Formula One

The top golfers in the world are like Formula One cars when it comes to their swings.

- Stuart Appleby

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

topic: Swings, Car, World, Formula One

The GP2 championship costs 0.65 percent of what the Formula One championship costs. I don't understand why GP2 cost $2.5 million and our team and other teams cost maybe between $300 and $500 million. I do not see what the difference is.

- Flavio Briatore

topic: Team, Differences, Cost, Formula One

After 10 weeks away from Formula One, when they started the engine here at Valencia and everything was vibrating, I found myself sitting in the RB7 and smiling.

- Sebastian Vettel

topic: Sitting, Week, Found, Formula One, Valencia

My time at Honda was amazing. Some of my best times in Formula One, actually. I might not have won races, just one race, but I had a lot of fun.

- Jenson Button

source: "Jenson Button drinks in memories before joining F1's 200 club" by Giles Richards, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2011.

topic: Fun, Race, Might, Honda, Formula One

I think social networks are really working for the drivers, because we're able to talk directly to fans and they get first-hand information. And I think it's great for the partners as well and the businesses that are involved in Formula One.

- Jenson Button

topic: Thinking, Hands, Fans, Formula One

A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles.

- Jenson Button

source: "Button your lip" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2005.

topic: Sports, Morning, Thinking, Fighter Pilot, Formula One

Formula One is definitely what I want to do. I would get back in the car today if I could.

- Scott Dixon

topic: Car, Today, Want, Formula One

TO be racing in Formula One with Mclaren has been the ultimate goal for me. It's a dream come true.

- Lewis Hamilton

topic: Dream, Goal, Racing, Formula One