Race Car Driver Quotes:

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

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

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

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

- Mario Andretti

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

Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.

- Colin McRae

topic: Car, Racing, Turns, 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

I think fear is what keeps us from going over the edge. I mean, as a race car driver, I don't think what makes a good race car driver is a fearless person. I think it's somebody that is comfortable being behind the wheel of something that's somewhat out of control.

- Jeff Gordon

topic: Mean, Thinking, Race, Race Car, Race Car Driver

As a race car driver, driving is the easy part. The hard part is containing the emotions on the race track.

- Kevin Harvick

topic: Race, Track, Car, Race Track, Race Car Driver

We should make politicians dress like race car drivers -- when they get money, make them wear the company logos on their suit.

- Jay Leno

topic: Race, Car, Dresses, Race Car, Race Car Driver

A great race car driver in a bad car doesn't make great results. A great car and a bad race car driver doesn't make great results. You have to have both. It's the combination of driver and car.

- Jeff Burton

source: "Daytona Preseason Thunder - Burton press conference, part 2". Press conference, www.motorsport.com. January 15, 2008.

topic: Race, Car, Results, Race Car, Race Car Driver

I am a racer. I'm not a race car driver. I am a racer. I race. That's what I do. I don't go on vacations. I don't take my family on vacations because I don't have a family. My family is the racing family.

- Tony Stewart

topic: Vacation, Race, Car, Racers, Race Car Driver

Every day in life there are challenges; whether you're an accountant, a race car driver or whatever you do.

- Justin Allgaier

source: "A CSJ Conversation with Justin Allgaier". Interview with CSJ, christiansportsjournal.com. March 10, 2017.

topic: Race, Car, Challenges, Race Car, Accountants

Dale Earnhardt was the best race car driver there will ever be in NASCAR. I would hope you don't expect me to replace him because nobody ever will.

- Kevin Harvick

topic: Race, Car, Drivers, Race Car Driver, Nascar

As a kid, I loved my Matchbox cars, my Big Wheels, and the race cars on TV. When I laid eyes on my first go-kart when I was just five, it gave my desire for making things with wheels go fast a focus. This combined with the fact that I've been incredibly competitive since a young age made for the proper mix of passion and aggression to become a race car driver.

- Andy Lally

source: Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Passion, Kids, Eye, Matchboxes, Race Car Driver

Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.

- David Alan Grier

topic: Children, Kids, Race, Race Car, Race Car Driver

Guys are so predictable. They can't seem to separate fantasy from reality, so I get a lot of bikers and race car drivers hitting on me. They're all just playboys, so they don't interest me.

- Michelle Rodriguez

topic: Reality, Race, Car, Race Car Driver

Let me ask you. If someone called you and offered you a ride in the Indianapolis 500 and you were a male race car driver, would you turn the ride down?

- Janet Guthrie

topic: Race, Car, Males, Indianapolis, Race Car Driver

You think I'm a pretty good race car driver? Wait until you see my brother. He's the best driver in the family.

- Kurt Busch

topic: Brother, Thinking, Race, Race Car Driver

The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.

- Paul Schrader

topic: Creative, Secret, Ease, Dirty Laundry, Race Car Driver

It seems that these phenomenal feats that race car drivers are performing are instinctive. They [require] very little mental workload.

- Chris Gerdes

topic: Technology, Race, Car, Workload, Race Car Driver

To be a driver that can cross off one of those marquee events as a winner, that cements your legacy in motorsports, to be able to win the Daytona 500 is the ultimate dream of a race car driver.

- Tony Stewart

topic: Dream, Winning, Race, Daytona, Daytona 500

I have a real passion for driving. Earlier on in my life I wanted to be a race car driver. But I don't pay an extortionate amount of money for cars. I'm pretty frugal.

- John Barrowman

topic: Real, Passion, Race, Race Car Driver

Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Race, Apples, Car, Race Car Driver