Racing Quotes

In this article we have collected the most interesting quotes about racing. Enjoy your reading!

 

Fast Car Quotes

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

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

It is more fun to drive a slow car fast than to drive a fast car slow. – Abner Perney

Aerodynamics are for people who can’t build engines. – Enzo Ferrari

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

Once you’ve raced, you never forget it…and you never get over it. – Richard Childress

There’s no secret. You just press the accelerator to the floor and steer left. – Bill Vukovich

Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game. – Carroll Shelby

The winner ain’t the one with the fastest car, it’s the one who refuses to lose. – Dale Earnhardt

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

Racing makes heroin addiction look like a vague wish for something salty. – Peter Egan

What’s behind you doesn’t matter. – Enzo Ferrari

The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical. – Murray Walker

Racing is the constant search for the weakest link. – Duane Bailey

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

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments. – Mario Andretti

Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary… that’s what gets you. – Jeremy Clarkson

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. – Steven Wright

What’s behind you doesn’t matter. – Enzo Ferrari

You win some, you lose some, you wreck some. – Dale Ernhardt Sr.

Finishing races is important, but racing is more important. – Dale Earnhardt

The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses. – Mario Andretti

Mr. Bentley – He builds fast trucks. – Ettore Bugatti

If you’re in control, you’re not going fast enough. – Parnelli Jones

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

Racing top fuel is for people who love work and hate money. – Brendan Murry

Running an airline is a normal job. Racing is more. – Niki Lauda

No marathon gets easier later. The half way point only marks the end of the beginning. – Joe Henderson

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

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

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength. – Janet Guthrie

Sometimes you have to bring back only the steering wheel so the car owner will know that you’re giving it all you have. – Mario Andretti

And there’s no damage to the car. Except to the car itself. – Murray Walker

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

No, I don’t drive her to win, I just drive her as fast as she will go. – Juan Fangio

I hate to take compromises with a racing car. The more standard a car is, the more compromises you have to take. – Michael Schumacher

Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death. – Hunter Thompson

When speed gets in the blood, one must drive to live. – Rudolf Caracciola

You can tell that you’re in trouble when you feel the air on the back of your neck instead of in your face. – Buddy Baker

Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers. – Colin Mcrae

When I raced a car last it was at a time when sex was safe and racing was dangerous. Now, it’s the other way round. – Hans Stuck

The ideal racecar will expire 100 yards past the finish line. – Stirling Moss

This is motor racing, and things can change pretty quickly. – Toto Wolff

As racing drivers, you always have those moments that it gets a bit heated, but then you start from zero again. – Max Verstappen

The racing is quite boring, sometimes. It’s hard to see how it pulls in fans. – Lando Norris

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

It doesn’t matter whether you come in first, in the middle of the pack, or last. You can say, ‘I have finished.’ There is a lot of satisfaction in that. – Fred Lebow

It’s basically the same, just darker, on the difference between night racing and daytime racing. – Alan Kulwicki