Great Racing Quotes

[RALPHIE]

"I guess you can't take that one without lifting". Mario Andretti standing beside his crashed car on trying to take the old turns 3 & 4 at Laguna Seca without lifting.

“Gotta work the nut behind the wheel before you start fixing bolts on the car”

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

“The best way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a large one and work down from there”

“It’s not a throttle, it’s a detonator”

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

“Racing is the best way to convert money into noise”

“It is useless to put your brakes on when you’re upside down” - Paul Newman (My favorite)

“If the car feels like it is on rails, you are probably driving too slow” – Ross Bently

“Cheap, fast and reliable. Pick two”

“Racing… because golf, football and baseball only require one ball”

“Today, racing costs exactly the same as it did twenty years ago…it takes every penny you have”

“It would be cheaper to spend our money on cocaine & hookers”

“You’ll know you've made it when you wear out your rear tires…before your front tires”

“I know I’m the slowest part of the car” – B. Wright

“Never run out of real estate, ideas and traction at the same time”

“Poverty is owning a racecar”

“Here, hold on to my beer”

“Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, and defiantly shouting ‘Wow, what a ride’”

“Wide open until you see God, then brake”

“Racing is the constant search for the weakest link” – Duane Bailey

”Guys, you can date whomever you want, but marry a girl that can back up a trailer” – Michael Martin

“Duct tape is ‘The Force’: it has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together”

“The ideal racecar will expire 100 yards past the finish line”

“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

“If I had all the money I spent on cars…I’d spend it all on cars” – Scott Fisher

“Driver has no cash” (lettered under the driver’s window on a racecar)

 

[Kingman]

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


My favorite

 

[Kingman]

1. To finish first, you must first finish. – Juan Manuel Fangio

2. Nobody remembers the guy who finished second but the guy who finished second. – Bobby Unser

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



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

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

6. The client is not always right. – Enzo Ferrari



7. If you think the last 4 words of the national anthem are gentlemen, start your engines, you might be a redneck. – Jeff Foxworthy.

8. Need to tie some kerosene rags around his ankles so the ants don’t eat his candy #$@ - Dale Earnhardt speaking of Mark Martin.

9. The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical. – F1 commentator Murray Walker.



10. Turbochargers are for people who cant build engines. – Keith Duckworth

11. Here Kitty Kitty Kitty! - Tony Stewart

12. We broke something, I think it was traction… – Carl Edwards after getting spun out by Dale Jr. at Michigan



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

14. Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls. – Stirling Moss

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



16. 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

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

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



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

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

21. To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster. - Sterling Moss



22. To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster. – Sterling Moss

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

24. When you win a race your on top that day, so take it for what its worth, have a good time and party, cause the next day when you get out of bed, the meter goes back to zero again. - Bobby Allison



25. 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, Days of Thunder

26. 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

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



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

29. Why worry about death, it’ll come sooner or later. - Jim Dunn

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



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

32. As far as cheating goes, they’ll never stop it. The only way it can be done successfully, only one person can know about it. – Smokey Yunick

33. It’s like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium - Dick Trickle was asked what racing at Windchester Speedway was like.



34. You can’t fix stupid - Larry Morgan, NHRA Pro Stock driver

35. 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

36. I got hit in the head pretty hard. My clock ran backwards for two years. - Buddy Baker



37. He ran out of talent about halfway through the corner. – Buddy Baker

38. After the third flip, I lost control………… - Don Roberts after crashing in the Jade Grenade at New England Dragway in 1975.

39. We worked 80 hour weeks for 30 years to keep from having to get a real job. – Tom Lemon’s comment on the rigors of being a drag racing.



40. It’s basically the same, just darker. - Alan Kulwicki, on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons.

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

42. If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari. – Gilles Villeneuve



43. There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher. – Murray Walker

44. 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

45. I love this kind of racing, (but) these guys sure change their personalities in race mode. They’re like Doberman Pinschers with a hand grenade in their mouths. – Road racer Boris Said speaking of NEXTEL Cup drivers.



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

47. When I started racing my father told me, ‘Cristiano, nobody has three balls but some people have two very good ones. - Cristiano Da Matta

48. Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track, and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey, and you go to jail. – Junior Johnson, NASCAR legend, and one time whiskey runner.



49. There have been other tracks that separated the men from the boys. This is the track that will separate the brave from the weak after the boys are gone. – Driver Jimmy Thompson speaking about Daytona International Speedway.

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

http://www.ridelust.com/the-50-greatest-automotive-quotes-of-all-time/

 

[spineracer]

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

 

[SteveA]

When listening to two drivers recalling a racing incident and discussing who was at fault Dan Gurney said "in racing, the first liar never stands a chance"
Also heard Buddy Baker say when describing hitting the wall at Smoky Mountain Raceway wide open and straight on "After that crash I spent the next year trying to figure out why chickens bent over to eat corn"

 

[twobjshelbys]

I was going to put up hunter s Thompson ' s but someone beat me to it

 

[Specracer]

And a simple one, that is catch all, can be used when things are good, and also bad...... Any one who has raced has said this....

"That's racing"

 

[PL510*Jeff]

+1

And a simple one, that is catch all, can be used when things are good, and also bad...... Any one who has raced has said this....

"That's racing"