Great and Funny Racing Quotes

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Great and Funny Racing Quotes

1. To finish first, you must first finish. ~ Rick Mears
2. Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog. ~ Damon Hill
3. The winner isn’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 lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical. ~ F1 commentator Murray Walker.
7. Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports… all the others are games. ~ Ernest Hemingway
8. Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death… ~ Hunter Thompson
9. 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
10. It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down. ~ Mario Andretti
11. Once you’ve raced, you never forget it…and you never get over it. ~ Richard Childress
12. Race cars are neither beautiful nor ugly. They become beautiful when they win. ~ Enzo Ferrari
13. There’s no secret. You just press the accelerator to the floor and steer left. ~ Bill Vukovich
14. To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster. ~ Sterling Moss
15. What’s behind you doesn’t matter. ~ Enzo Ferrari
16. When you win a race, you’re on top that day, so take it for what it’s 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
17. 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
18. If you’re in control, you’re not going fast enough. ~ Parnelli Jones
19. Why worry about death, it’ll come sooner or later. ~ Jim Dunn
20. Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary… that’s what gets you. ~ Jeremy Clarkson
21. Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built. ~ Henry Ford
22. 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
23. You can’t fix stupid ~ Larry Morgan, NHRA Pro Stock driver
24. 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
25. I got hit in the head pretty hard. My clock ran backwards for two years. ~ Buddy Baker
26. He ran out of talent about halfway through the corner. ~ Buddy Baker
27. 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.
28. It’s basically the same, just darker. ~ Alan Kulwicki, on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons.
29. Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down. ~ Dave Barry
30. 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
31. There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher. ~ Murray Walker
32. 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
33. 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.
34. The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses. ~ Mario Andretti
35. Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Loss 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.
36. 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.