Top 1200 Nascar Racing Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I love coming to America to race. Maybe that's because I'm a big fan of NASCAR as well.

I'm good at separating my personal life from racing. When I'm at track, it's race time; when I'm away from it, other than the fact I'm training to be fit for it, there is nothing at home that makes me even want to think about racing. I just want to enjoy my life, and by the time the next race comes around, I'm ready and excited for it.

NASCAR is Freaky Fast, just like Jimmy John's.

I have taken restarts and have come to the conclusion myself that I can't give NASCAR that opportunity to penalize me.

I wish Michael Schumacher would come try NASCAR. That'd be cool.

NASCAR and the Daytona 500 are about as American as you can get.

I thought I'd go into law or something. I always loved NASCAR, but I didn't view it as a business opportunity.

To be a part of NASCAR, to have the name behind me is such a big deal.

I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.

Pain? Yes, of course. Racing without pain is not racing. But the pleasure of being ahead outweighed the pain a million times over. To hell with the pain. What's six minutes of pain compared to the pain they're going to feel for the next six months or six decades. You never forget your wins and losses in this sport. YOU NEVER FORGET.

One of the cool things about ski racing is there is never a perfect run so it's hard to be satisfied in that sense, you can always go that extra step, i don't think any of us have the realistic goal of having the perfect run. Ski racing is the most variable sport out there, conditions change run-to-run, we only get one chance at it and the margin for error is tiny.

You know, I think in Europe NASCAR is not regarded as high as it should.

I'm very good at compartmentalising my life. I did motor-racing for a while, stopped, didn't miss it. I did power-boat racing for a while, stopped, didn't miss it. I had such a good run at the BBC. I had a hell of a CV with arguably the greatest broadcasting organisation in the world. But I've never missed it since.

I'm from Florida, and my family somehow is really into country music. We're all southern in a way: My grandpa hunts, my uncle's, like, a redneck, and we're all NASCAR fans.

The cooperation of NASCAR - or any other system, it turns out - persists only when everyone believes he has the opportunity to win.

I loved a lot of motorsports, but as far as the ovals go, I was more into NASCAR.

There's nothing quite like being part of a NASCAR race weekend, and that always will hold true.

We have a lot of guys from different backgrounds in pit crews and even in the front offices of NASCAR and race teams.

Bobsledding is like sprinting with NASCAR. You get to push these 400-pound sleds as fast as you can down a hill and hop in. How could you not enjoy that?

Allowing casinos to operate without having races could result in the end of dog racing in Florida as we know it. Right now, greyhound racing is in many cases a money-losing proposition, but the dog tracks are forced to continue it because they have to have races in order to operate the lucrative casinos.

I think our sport is much better off with a successful female driver in NASCAR.

The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we all have at least one.

I'd love to be a NASCAR driver because they're, like, in their forties and fifties.

When a sport comes down to physical power, then it definitely needs to be split between men and women, but motor racing is a little bit like horse riding where we fight with the same tools. I believe that motor racing is a sport where women can take on men.

The opportunity at NASCAR will continue to be such that the best talent wants to be here.

In NASCAR, we pride ourselves on being accessible to fans.

I think I speak for America when I say, nothing says NASCAR like Whoopi Goldberg.

NASCAR is where I always wanted to be and I do believe I proved I can compete at the Cup level.

Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.

I think the people that were big Bill Elliott fans, they followed me for a long time, not just since I've been in the NASCAR world.

A written regulation in NASCAR is about as reliable as an Egyptian immigration law.

I'm different than the normal NASCAR driver, I listen to hip-hop music.

I play golf once in awhile. I certainly love to train. I'm also a big fan of NASCAR and Japanimation.

I love social media. I think people in NASCAR don't use it enough and there's so much you can do with it.

We want everybody in this country to be a NASCAR fan, and you can't do that by being insensitive in any one area.

I don't remember getting to see my dad race a lot until later in his career. I remember being at the track a lot. I still see a lot of pictures of myself around my dad at the track as a little kid. The racing I've known him more for is during his time racing with Ray Evernham. The rest of it was before I was ever around.

Gone are the days when you could lie on a beach between races and still be in good enough shape to compete. Gone are the days when simply wearing a brand on your firesuit was enough to justify the marketing expense of an Indy Car. Racing an Indy Car is only about a quarter of my life as a racing driver.

People recognize the size and scope of NASCAR but at the same time we are constantly underserved by the media coverage.

As the only African American NASCAR driver in over 40 years, we have been honored to support Bubba Wallace.

Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day.

Driving the No. 26 Sandy Hook School Support Fund Toyota is like nothing I have ever been part of in my NASCAR career.

Liberals don't have to emerge from the hot tub and start attending NASCAR races or - God forbid - church, but it would be nice if they'd stop lying all the time.

There's no doubt, doing what we do, the schedule that we have and the danger that we incur every single week, NASCAR drivers should be making NBA, NFL money.

NASCAR is a bunch of farmers driving around in circles.

If you try to describe NASCAR to anyone, you sound crazy.

I never thought about it, but as an atheist, maybe Nascar is my church?

I don't see myself racing at 50 years old. I enjoy racing, and that has been my whole life. But one day I will take time to look at other things. I know that everything has an end date, even life, and I also have a family and there are other things to enjoy than trying to be first into the corner and fastest out.

My dad certainly has an eye for talent and he did something right getting his sons to the top of NASCAR.

Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors.

Freshman year of college we got to go on a NASCAR course in Charlotte.

When I arrived in Champ Cars, which at the time used to be called Indy Cars and then got renamed CART and then renamed Champ Cars, I was racing against Jimmy Vasser, my team-mate, but more than him, I was racing against Michael Andretti, Emerson Fittapaldi, Al Unser Jr. - guys that had big names.

My father was a racing driver, his name is Don Halliday. I grew up with it all around me. I have always been into fast, dangerous sports, even as a child. As soon as I got in a car I knew it was for me and that I would enjoy racing and competing. My mother was also involved in Solo One. She always said I was like my father and would want to compete one day.

I think NASCAR's coming to Canada now so it'll take on a whole new relevance. Be afraid.

Everything at a NASCAR event carries a corporate logo except the lavatory stalls.

There's been bumps in the road and serious challenges along the way, but my love for NASCAR and my zest for life is what's most important to me.

No one should feel uncomfortable when they come to a NASCAR race.

Racing is all I've ever wanted to do. I love sports in general, love watching them, love going to games. I have a lot respect for athletes throughout a lot of different sports, but racing has always been what I wanted to do.

I really liked Deadheads and the whole Dead concert scene: the tailgating, the tie-dye uniforms, the camaraderie it was like NASCAR for potheads.

It's short-track racing. You're going to get that and it's going to happen. I don't know why everybody thought it was the end of the world when wrecks were going to happen. Like I said, with close-quarter racing like that it's going to get heated.

Once you're a NASCAR champion, you're kind of in another elite division instead of just being a competitor or a race winner.