Top 786 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Drivers - Page 2

I'm still a Red Bull driver. I'm part of this family more than ever.

I think the penalties are grossly unfair. I think it's borderline shameful.

Williams is one of the big names in F1 with a really strong pedigree, so it is an honour to be driving for them.

If I get into a car on a circuit, I drive as fast as I can; that's it!

The team is very enthusiastic - everyone is trying hard to do their best, and everyone is putting a lot of effort in to moving forward and getting the right results and it's a very good, close-knit team.

If you're too methodical, too fearful, you're not going to win. But the clever thing is to make the calculation correctly about where and when to go over the top. You've got to know when to push it and when to come back.

Artists make art... everyone else talks about it.

Anyone who questions my commitment, doesn't know me.

No matter how good a driver you are, you have to have the right car and the right team behind you in order to succeed.

In golf, you have to stay patient and calm. On the race track you can let loose, but in golf you can't and you must be calm.

Boogity, boogity boogity! Let’s go racing boys!

It is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.

I've qualified second I don't know how many times. Qualifying isn't my strong suit.

I've seen a big gain in cardio since I went vegetarian and even gained a little more going vegan.

Dancing is just like racing. You don't learn choreography. They just give you steps to do, and you do them over and over and over. It's very much like what I do in racing.

What is power without control?

When it comes down to it you have to be true to yourself and the rest falls into place.

It's been a long four years for Junior Nation. I am happy for his fans and NASCAR. Now, let's celebrate this win and help our sport grow. I have thought that ever since we took all our eyes and undivided attention off of Dale Jr. and gave him some breathing room, he was able to be more himself and relax a bit. Some of that pressure left him. Today we just saw the 'Old Dale Jr.,' the one we've been looking for, for a long time. He is back.

I'm looking forward to Phoenix. I ran well there last year in the Nationwide Series, and it was one of the tracks I made four Sprint Cup starts at last season. In the Cup race last year, I had a good run going for it being my first time there in a Cup car, and unfortunately got damage from an accident. It's not a restrictor plate race, so this will be the first time this season that I will run a lot of laps in practice. It's also the first race for the new qualifying format, so it will be interesting to see how that works out. Overall, I just want to have a solid run in the BRANDT Chevy.

All types of racing costs a lot of money no matter what you're doing.

The only healing I’ve ever known is getting back in that race car — for all us racers.

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

I think our dad and our mom have always told us that in racing we're a team, and we work together, and that's how it's always been, and I think that's how it's always going to be.

There are currently no symptoms and I'm committed to continuing to take the best care of my body as possible.

You accomplish victory step by step, not by leaps and bounds.

I am able to control only that which I am aware of. That which I am unaware of controls me. Awareness empowers me.

I've been happy with my life. Also very lucky. I lead two lives - businessman and racer - and it feels like the best of both worlds.

I've been waiting to get back in the Miller Lite Ford since Homestead. The team at the shop have put a lot of effort into building me a fast Ford Fusion for Speedweeks. Being in the Unlimited gives us a chance to see what we've got to work with for the Daytona 500. I think both myself and Joey in the No. 22 will be fast down here. I'm ready to go.

Americans are very patriotic and they want someone to support. In order to entice more fans, and to allow F1 to compete with Nascar and IndyCar, there needs to be an American driver.

I think Formula E truly has the potential to become the future of motorsport. Formula One is the past.

The madder I get, the faster I go.

You need to say and do the right things and good things happen to good people.

I am not motivated by recognition, I just do things I like doing - racing, shagging, eating and drinking.

I've been to the combine a couple of times since I've graduated to see the talent coming through. It's about keeping tabs on who's coming up next. I tell them "You've got to deliver. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." You've got to be sure to succeed in it.

Pastor is a driver who doesn't respect other drivers.

I always want to be racing.

But I'm a racer, that's what I've always been. I just want someone to put me in a car and leave me there.

God is the one that's ultimately in control of everything. You can't try to change things when they're not meant to be changed.

There are even more fatalities from cirrhoses of the liver [than automobiles], yet Congress has not once mentioned outfitting us all with anti- alcohol equipment.

If you're in control, you're not going fast enough.

I'm gonna drive until my buddies can't lift me in the car, and I'll get some younger buddies if I need to.

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.

A great race car driver in a bad car doesn't make great results. A great car and a bad race car driver doesn't make great results. You have to have both. It's the combination of driver and car.

NASCAR is a bunch of farmers driving around in circles.

When I was 20 and ran my first race, I told myself I don't know how I'm going to do this for a living. I don't have the money to do it. But it is what I want to do.

We broke something, I think it was traction.

There is no average reason for a person getting involved in racing.

You learn how to be a better person not just on the [race] track, but all around.

If you don't try and explore genres and have freedom of creativity, you're just wasting your position as a pop band.

If I can win a Cup race, that would pretty much show my whole career that I've been able to win in everything I've gotten into.

You can only get over your fears if you attack them head on.

If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower.

You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk.

Our generation must fulfill the most noble of duties by ensuring the survival of future generations through the most basic of survival mechanisms - adaptation.

The road conditions are so variable here, there is ice, snow and everything in between. But a podium finish is a definite possibility if we stay smooth and adjust to the slippery conditions.

I'd say it [success in NASCAR] is probably 50% car, 30% driver and 20% luck. When it comes to the driving, if the driver doesn't do his part, then it's just kind of like multiplying a negative times a positive: The end result is going to be a negative.

It was really special for Bass Pro Shops to take Tracker off the side and put Joplin, Missouri on there. They have helped me a lot this past week with putting together ways to raise money to help rebuild Joplin. It's my hometown. It was heartbreaking to see the tornado and see all the people that lost their homes and the ones that lost their lives. It is really special that Johnny let us put that on there. Hopefully we made some people proud tonight.

Encyclopedia is a Latin term. It means "to paraphrase a term paper."

I talk about my team a lot. I feel like people are the most important part of the puzzle.

Alcohol is for drinking, gas is for cleaning parts, and nitro is for racing!