Get your heart racing and step on the throttle. If you’ve got the need for speed, you’ll love the collection of insightful and humorous racing quotes below.
When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.Alain Prost
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I'm always nervous. If I wasn't nervous, it would be weird. I get the same feeling at all the big races. It's part of the routine, and I accept it. It means I'm there and I'm ready.Allyson Felix
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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
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And suddenly I realized that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.Ayrton Senna
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Each driver has his limit. My limit is a little bit further than others.Ayrton Senna
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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
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The real purpose of running isn't to win a race. It's to test the limits of the human heart.Bill Bowerman
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Good health, peace of mind, being outdoors, camaraderie: those are all wonderful things that come to you when running. But for me, the real pull of running—the proverbial icing on the cake—has always been racing.Bill Rodgers
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My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble.Bill Rodgers
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You can't make a racehorse out of a pig. But if you work hard enough at it you can make a mighty fast pig.Bob Akin
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He ran out of talent about halfway through the corner.Buddy Baker
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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
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The racing driver needs to be fed a diet of other racing drivers.Carroll Smith
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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
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When I started racing my father told me, ‘Cristiano, nobody has three balls but some people have two very good ones.Cristiano Da Matta
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Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.Dale Earnhardt
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Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.Damon Hill
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For me, races are the celebration of my training.Dan Browne
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Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.Dean Karnazes
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If lightning strikes while you're in the car it's your fault.Doc Bundy
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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.Doris Brown Heritage
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What's behind you doesn't matter.Enzo Ferrari
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Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports… all the others are games.Ernest Hemingway
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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
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My times become slower and slower, but the experience of the race is unchanged: each race a drama, each race a challenge, each race stretching me in one way or another, and each race telling me more about myself and others.George Sheehan
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No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences.George Sheehan
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You didn't beat me. You merely finished in front of me.Hal Higdon
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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
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No, no, he didn’t slam you, he didn’t bump you, he didn’t nudge you… he *rubbed* you. And rubbin, son, is racin’.Harry Hogge
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Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished.Jack Lovelock