Top 25 Best Quotes About Racing

[machineripper]

Hey everybody, I'm new here but have been watching the forums for a long time. I figured you would all appreciate this:



More below:

http://www.exhaustaddict.com/ea1/top-20-best-quote...

What are some of your favourite quotes about racing?

[angry jock]

[benjj]

If you want to make millions out of motor racing - start with billions.

[Leins]

"and rubbin, son, is racin!"

Although maybe not in F1

[RobM77]

benjj said:

If you want to make millions out of motor racing - start with billions.

"The only way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a large fortune"

plus another one of my favourites:



edit: as posted above too!

Edited by RobM77 on Saturday 31st May 17:08

[AlexHat]

'To finish first you must first finish'

[itcaptainslow]

"If everything seems under control you're just not going fast enough" - Mario Andretti if I remember correctly.

[CharlesAL]

"There's nothing wrong with his car except that it's on fire." Murray Walker.

[Andurron]

Mr Brundle may not be quite as hilarious at times as Walker, but there's plenty to giggle at here:

http://www.brundlequotes.com/

[Rick 343]

Senna talking to Jackie Stewart "if you no longer go for a gap, you're no longer a racing driver"
Thought that summed Senna up pretty well.

[DubZeus]

Good drivers have dead flies on the side windows. Walter Rohrl

[Tango13]

A less well known Steve McQueen one from Le Mans...

'This isn't just a thousand to one shot. This is a professional bloodsport. And it can happen to you. And then it can happen to you again'

[stephen300o]

"Ooh racing huh? How nice, I'm happy for you"

[Tango13]

George Orwell on sport in general but just as applicable to motorsport,

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.

[coppice]

Keke Rosberg ; pit lane Silverstone 1985. Drags hard on his Marlboro, stubs it out , says 'Let's do it ' and sets pole at average of 162 mph. In a car with one tyre losing pressure and on a track which wasn't even 100% dry . I was there at Copse. Keke was a proper racing driver and the Williams Honda was everything a Grand Prix car should be ....

Edited by coppice on Sunday 1st June 07:27

[The Moose]

The bullst stops when the flag drops

[machineripper]

CharlesAL said:

"There's nothing wrong with his car except that it's on fire." Murray Walker.

That's a great one.

[mikial]

Richie Ginther. When asked what he thought of the new Lotus 40, Ginther, a lugubrious Californian, said, "Same as the 30 but with ten more mistakes".

[Pit Pony]

itcaptainslow said:

"If everything seems under control you're just not going fast enough" - Mario Andretti if I remember correctly.

"If I didn't crash, I wasn't going fast enough" - McRae (Rip)

"Nobody ever crashes on the straights" - my mate Simon, in an attempt to make me stand somewhere dangerous in a welsh forest, so he could take decent photos.

[jellypig]

"There are only three sports - bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games."

Attributed to Ernest Hemingway (though there are some doubts over if he actually said it) - but regardless I shall be using it over the summer when I achieve pariah status for not bowing down to the great god football.