Quotes on Racing

My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute. One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.

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

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

That's the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to see how wonderful your life it.

I do not want to continue cycling until I am 35. I want to make something else out of my life, too. There are other things besides a bike and racing.

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

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

I want to keep pushing the limits to see what’s possible. That’s the nice thing about ski racing - no one is stopping you from going faster.

Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.

When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.

Any car which holds together for a whole race is too heavy.

Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.

Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.

It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance.

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

Racing is the only time I feel whole.

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.