Racing Quotes

“If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.”
― Mario Andretti

“In racing, they say that your car goes where your eyes go. The driver who cannot tear his eyes away from the wall as he spins out of control will meet that wall; the driver who looks down the track as he feels his tires break free will regain control of his vehicle.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“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.”
― Amby Burfoot, The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life

“Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse.”
― Jane Smiley, A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck

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

“Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in automobile racing, a driver must never remember.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“Failure was startling, really. So startling that I hardly noticed it at all.”
― Jane Smiley, A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck

“Fact One: Races are won or lost in key moments. Fact Two: Success in the sport is, above all else, about enduring suffering.”
― Chris McCormack, I'm Here To Win: A World Champion's Advice for Peak Performance

“What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle.”
― David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

“It's hard to drive at the limit, but it's harder to know where the limits are.”
― Sterling Moss

“We’re far from having too much horsepower…[m]y definition of too much horsepower is when all four wheels are spinning in every gear.”
― Mark Donohue

“All you need to know about racing you can learn from Super Mario Kart.”
― Jenson Button, Life to the Limit: My Autobiography

“It's one of the things I love about motorsports - you're always learning, always having to adapt. It's not like tennis, where the rackets might change a bit but everything else stays the same. If you're in motorsport, the formulas are always changing. The regulations, the tyres, the power, the type of engine. It keeps you excited.”
― Jenson Button

“Train hard, fight easy.”
― John Steele

“Parts DO NOT BREAK - we break them.”
― Carroll Smith, Engineer to Win

“It's one of the things I love about motorsports - you're always learning, always having to adapt and develop. It's not like tennis, where the rackets might change a bit but everything else stays the same. If you're in motorsport, the formulas are always changing. The regulations, the tyres, the power, the type of engine. It keeps you excited.”
― Jenson Button, Life to the Limit: My Autobiography

“Formula One drivers were like gods to me, growing up.”
― Jenson Button, Life to the Limit: My Autobiography

“The sound of that V10, a rich growl that reached right into my soul.”
― Jenson Button, Life to the Limit: My Autobiography

“I lost a keyboard from the racing mission in Mafia.”
― stained hanes, 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

“Then I realise this has been coming for a long time. This is what people do when you get to this age. You start finding partners, kissing, having sex. I have no issues with people doing that- like, I'm sex positive, and Becky has wanted to have sex with Jack for quite a while. And I know that kissing and having sex isn't a race, and there are some people who never end up wanting to do those things anyway. But I guess it makes me feel like she's braver than me. She's putting herself out there. She's getting what she wants. And what am I doing? Nothing. I have no idea what I want.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“Like all boys, they never walked anywhere, but named a goal and lit for it, scissors and elbows. Nobody won. Nobody wanted to win. It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“And the insanity of it all is that I’m racing through life, attempting at every step to create the very things that I’m stepping on in the racing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There is no finish like the one you questioned.”
― Rob Steger, Training For Ultra: Ultra Running Stories From the Middle of the Pack

“A wing on a Formula One car operates like the wing on an aero-plane except in reverse. So whereas the aircraft wing generates life, the wing on a car does the opposite, pushing the car down to the surface.”
― Jenson Button, Life to the Limit: My Autobiography

“He too was running off, but it was in the direction of the barn, and he was making a case for not being a jockey but a racing equine himself.”
― J.S. Mason, Whisky Hernandez

“Somebody's gotta tell the truth, no matter how inaccurate.”
― Lance Boyle

“I'm comfortable with making other drivers uncomfortable”
― Ross Chastain

“...it almost felt like we were racing the moon. I didn't have to look ahead to know that we were losing.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“I finally know why my heart
beats faster when you're not around
I guess it's hoping you'll hear it,
'cause you know; it's beating for you.”
― Ariana

“Gandalf!’ he cried. ‘Gandalf! He always turns up when things are darkest. Go on! Go on, White Rider! Gandalf, Gandalf!’ he shouted wildly, like an onlooker at a great race urging on a runner who is far beyond encouragement.”
― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings