Top 97 Quotes & Sayings by Murray Walker

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English entertainer Murray Walker.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Murray Walker

Graeme Murray Walker was an English motorsport commentator and journalist. He provided television commentary of live Formula One coverage for the BBC between 1976 and 1996, and for ITV between 1997 and 2001.

If you don't trust someone to look after your investments, then they shouldn't be doing the job for you.
Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does.
The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical. — © Murray Walker
The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.
I'm a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I'm commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car.
I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.
I want to say so much more than I have time for.
I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.
IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards.
I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.
I should imagine that the conditions in the cockpit are totally unimaginable.
A battle is developing between them' I say developing, because it's not yet on.
I wish we had a system where you are given a bill including service and that people were paid properly so they didn't have to rely on tips. In different restaurants there are different policies and it's all very confusing.
You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing. — © Murray Walker
You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing.
It is a huge honour to be recognised as the world's best commentator, particularly against so many sporting greats.
Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.
Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion.
It all comes down to money.
With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go.
Even in five years time, he will still be four years younger than Damon Hill.
Well, now we have exactly the same situation as at the beginning of the race, only exactly opposite.
Eight minutes past the hour here in Belgium - and presumably eight minutes past the hour everywhere in the world.
And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing.
Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so.
Somebody said once 'Follow the money' and that is what it is all about.
That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.
Either the car is stationary, or it's on the move.
There's nothing wrong with the car except that it's on fire.
And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself.
This circuit is interesting because it has inclines and declines. Not just up, but down as well.
You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.
I've no idea what Eddie Irvine's orders are, but he's following them superlatively well.
I can't believe what's happening visually, in front of my eyes.
Schumacher wouldn't have let him past voluntarily. Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.
You have to say what comes into your head, and sometimes the wrong words come, in the wrong order or I'd make prophecies which immediately turned out to be wrong.
There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.
He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed.
And this is the third place car about to lap the second place car.
The European drivers have adapted to this circuit extremely quickly, especially Paul Radisich who's a New Zealander. — © Murray Walker
The European drivers have adapted to this circuit extremely quickly, especially Paul Radisich who's a New Zealander.
Let's stop the startwatch.
And Michael Schumacher is 37 seconds ahead, so he can refuel the car, change all four wheels, take off his helmet, have a smoke and a cup of tea, and rejoin in first.
[Andrea De Cesaris is] the man who has won more Grands Prix than anybody else in the history of Grand Prix racing without actually winning one of them.
And the first three cars are all Escorts, which isn't surprising as this is an all Escort race.
Speaking from memory, I don't know how many points Nelson Piquet has.
Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough?
And there's no damage to the car. Except to the car itself.
Jenson Button is in the top ten, in eleventh position.
Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him
Unless I am very much mistaken...I AM very much mistaken...! — © Murray Walker
Unless I am very much mistaken...I AM very much mistaken...!
Tombay's hopes, which were nil before, are absolutely zero now
Ukyo Katayama is undoubtedly the best Formula One driver that Grand Prix racing has ever produced
With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is.
And the first five places are filled by five different cars.
Rally points scoring is twenty for the fastest, eighteen for the second fastest, right down to six points for the slowest fastest.
We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite.
Mansell is slowing it down, taking it easy. Oh, no he isn't! It's a lap record.
Mansell can see him in his earphone.
I wouldn't want to stop making those gaffes, even if I could. People realise I am flesh and blood. I am not sensitive about it. It's just my enthusiasm. I want to say so much more than I have time for.
This would have been Senna's third win a row if he'd won the two before
It's lap 26 of 58, which unless I'm very much mistaken is half way.
Look up there! That's the sky!
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