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A racing driver has to be a good driver.
Racing is the only time I feel whole.
Racing should never be an ordeal, rather an enjoyable and life-enhancing experience.
Racing comes easily to me, especially the 100 metres. That is why, no matter how fast I run the run the 100 metres, the 200 will always mean more to me, because of the effort I've put in.
Racing takes everything you've got
intellectually, emotionally, physically
and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.
Boogity, boogity boogity! Let's go racing boys!
I'm kind of new to the racing game thing. I've always been, like, a shooter game kind of guy.
When I did some Nascar races this year I noticed that I was increasingly missing the racing side, to race against each other, because in rallying you really race against the clock.
I own a Ferrari race team, and we race all over North America.
To race is to live. All the rest is simply waiting .
Racing is bulging at the seams with pure nutball characters, men who can drink more, screw more, fight more, laugh more, joke more, than practically any collection of people in the world.
A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.
Racing's very much like the world of acting. You have your front runners and you have guys that are there for the long race, and you have other guys that block for other people, that are called supporting and character actors. It's all the same kind of situation.
I'm trying to set out the passion and complexity of this sport. Many people think it's a dumb activity: stand on the gas and turn left. In fact, it's probably one of the most complex sports in existence.
When I race, I don't think about it; it just happens.
I am not a driver, I am a racer.
My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.
There's only one racing strategy that matters.It's the one I run by:
Get in the lead and don't let anyone pass you.
Indy car racing is much more aggressive.
He says racing is doing. It is being a part of a moment and being aware of nothing else but that moment. Reflection must come at a later time.
When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.
You don't drive races on paper.
Nothing is ever in such short supply at a race track as time. It doesn't seem to matter whether we are at the track for a race meeting or for testing - there is never enough time.
When I was young, I would go to the races and it was an unbelievable feeling when you'd watch them race.
Never mind the track. The track is for punks. We are Road People. We are Cafe Racers.
For me the best part about the racing is to let all your aggression - whatever you've got inside you - out on the bike and just attack everything at all possible times.
The business model of racing is not a pretty one.
I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
It's been said racing encompasses hours of agony and moments of glory.
But moments like the 1978 Triple Crown inspire the pursuit of greatness.
I don't race a lot, half a dozen (races) a year maybe.
Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.
I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I've finished a movie but don't tell anyone.
I started racing myself and once you get bitten by that bug you really are hooked.
I've been racing for my whole life, and I know what I need to do to be able to win.
There are a lot of other things I could be doing out there, but I love to race. I'm fortunate to have the opportunity, to have the team and to have the resources to be able to do this.
Why did I take up racing? I was too lazy to work and too chicken to steal
Any business you're involved with, and racing is no different, is about people. It's all about people.
Road racing imitates life, the way it would be without the corruptive influence of civilization. When you see an enemy lying on the ground, what's your first reaction? To help him to his feet. In road racing, you kick him to death
I have been going from one racetrack to another for years, since I was 14.
Again, racing for me was about energy management.
I'm a pro-horserace guy.
I have spent
or wasted
my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing and bull fighting as the only true sports. The rest, he sniffed, are merely games.
I'm just going to go out there and try to win the race. When you go out there trying to go for a record, you're usually not going to get it.
I don't play racing games, unless it's 'Mario Kart.'
I enjoy racing so much. Ever since I was 8 or 9, I trained every stroke, because it was the only way I could race a lot.
I'm a casual F1 racing fan. I'm probably more of a stock car, NASCAR guy.
My son is racing his first 24-hour this year with Porsche.
Beyond racing, I just love the art form of running, of conceiving new ideas like the 50 Marathons in 50 States in 50 Days. It's the ultimate expression of what I love to do, which is run, and travel, and see this great country.
People go to car races to watch the crashes.
I race to win. That's the point.
Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
I've been in motorsport my whole life since I was eight years of age.
When you put yourself on the line in a race and expose yourself to the unknown, you learn things about yourself that are very exciting.
My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000.
I grew up in a culture of motorbikes. So I like racing just fine. Quite a lot, actually. That was when I was a boy in Australia. And I never really made the jump to cars after that.
That is the sort of race which one really enjoys - to feel at one's peak on the day when it is necessary, and to be able to produce the pace at the very finish. It gives a thrill which compensates for months of training and toiling. But it is the sort of race that one wants only about once a season.
In order to win, you have to be aggressive - with your car, with the racetrack, and with the competition. But you don't have to be stupid about it.
But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more.
I always think street but train sport.
Road racing is rock 'n roll; track is Carnegie Hall.
I like racing. I love the speed and I'm a very kinetic person in terms of filmmaking. I love the movement of film more than anything else.
I've got to win every race.
Racing and hunting madden our minds.
Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it's just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing.
It is important to understand the objective of every race. Sometimes it is important to win. Sometimes it is more than enough if you just complete the race.
Even though people involved in racing think that it has a big sporting stage, it is a minority sport compared to some of the other high-profile events: football, Formula One or golf.
I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.
The racing that we've got in our industry right now is the best racing in the worldperiod.
It's been a long time since I've won a race in anything,
I know this much about racing in the rain. I know it is about balance. It is about anticipation and patience ... [it is also] about the mind! It is about owning one's body ... It is about believing that you are not you; you are everything. And everything is you.
Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day.
The race is long. To finish first, you must first finish.
To hell with safety. All I want to do is race.
The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts.
You don't go to a race track to finish second.
The race was on; the souls of the racers were in it; over them bent the myriads.
But what kind of race is it, when the racers never let go of each other's hands, and the winner pulls the loser laughing over the finish line?
I am part of a circuit called 24 Hours of LeMons, where it's a sort of riff on 24 Hours of Le Mans. It's a poor man's weekend warrior racer event.
One group of riders doped, the others alongside them racing clean. You can work out for yourselves which group was fastest.
When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.
I have motorsport in my DNA and there's no way I can stay away from that world.
I'm a fan of NASCAR, in a certain kind of way.
I just loved the driving part. If I didn't race anybody, it didn't make any difference as long as I could drive. It's just the physical part of getting in the car and being able to go run fast and being able to drive.
The racing is no different if it is day or night except you see the lights and the sparks. You run the race the same. The day or night doesn't really affect the race.
Racing down the kingsroad, as if to outrun his doubts.
I think I have experience in rowing, and that has given me some ability to go about racing. I'm lucky genetically. I have a good VO2 max - I can hold a lot of air in my lungs - and that definitely helps.
The next best thing to a winning day at the track is a losing day.
Everything that's going on within the peloton - there's about ten different races going on. There is also a survival element to it - I love the fact that it's so epic. You crash on a bike, the first thing you do is try and get back up on it. No whinging!
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.
Racing and hunting excite man's heart to madness.
I started racing go-karts. And I love karts. It's the most breath taking sport in the world. More than F1, indeed, I used to like it most.
Racing is not football or baseball or basketball where you can do it yourself. If you're good in high school, you just shine. (But in racing) you have to have a family behind you.
Running on different types of racetracks is challenging - not only for the drivers, but even more for the team members who have to make adjustments to the cars before each race.
The thing I love about off-road racing is the pride in how abusive it is.
Racing has become more show time; we've got to have something new to create interest in the sport.
Whether it's putting on a bunny costume and running with friends, or simply appreciating the whining coming out of the guy next to you, races offer moments when you can simply enjoy the people around you and feel happy.
I've been driving race cars professionally for a while: 200 mph types of things.
I love all motor sports at the top level.
A lesser but still fundamental rule of racing is that you properly enter the event. Anyone who doesn't but still insists on running interferes with the paying customers.
My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble.