Top 1200 Race Car Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

At a car dealership, the person who sells the car is the hero, and also gets the commission. But if the mechanics don't service that car well, the customer won't return.

I work out hard, and I do things that I feel make me better throughout the race and after the race. And I feel better mentally because of working out, being prepared and being in great shape. Driving the car, I think with reflexes and things throw at your so quickly, you have to make adjustments - the feeling of your car, the heat. Some tracks can be tough on your neck and arms, and other tracks, not so much. I think there's a lot there that definitely takes some athletic ability, and I think that helps being athletic and being prepared like that. It helps me for sure.

My son, who is 7, he passed a car in a parking lot that was probably a 1998 model, and he said, 'Wow, Dad, look at that old car.' I was looking around for an old car, and I realized that my old car maybe stops at 1965.

A woman can be physically fit enough to drive a Formula 1 car. I did the race distance in Barcelona so I have proved that it is possible.

the car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making

As a driver, you want to race every lap possible, especially when you've got a good car.

I achieved too little result from my principal task, the task of making my race a race that is respected, a race that is honourable, a race that is highly regarded.

I think if you're a race car driver you want to succeed and be the best in your realm of racing.

In the build-up to a race I begin practising two days beforehand with two other team members. We have an hour and a half practise run together. Then on the next day we have another practise in two separate hour long sessions. On the actual day of competition we do a warm-up run in the car before the race.

I can't tell the difference between the best and the worst 'cause I realize not everybody wants to have sex in the middle of a demolition derby race in the car.

I'm as passionate as any car owner or car collector that has one car or 300 cars.

James Finch is exactly what I'm looking for, as far as getting back into the race car to have fun.

I am a racer. I'm not a race car driver. I am a racer. I race. That's what I do. I don't go on vacations. I don't take my family on vacations because I don't have a family. My family is the racing family.

You never want to concede a place, but when you're leading the race or fighting for a podium position you can find ways to make your car very wide!

There's a lot of debate on this subject - about what kind of car handles best. Some say a a front-engined car, some say a rear-engined car. I say a rented car. Nothing handles better than a rented car. You can go faster, turn corners sharper, and put the transmission into reverse while going forward at a higher rate of speed in a rented car than in any other kind.

No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences. My times become slower and slower, but the experience of the race is unchanged: each race a drama, each race a challenge, each race stretching me in one way or another, and each race telling me more about myself and others.

My worst habit is probably that I'm extremely messy. I'm a big scatter-brain - I'm always losing my car keys, or worse, forgetting where I parked my car in the car park.

I get asked all the time 'didn't you ever want to be a race car driver?' And I knew pretty early on that I was going to be on the other side of that equation.

I will always enter a race car from the left side. Always. Why? I have no idea.

It's pretty cool to be able to hang out with the President and have the race-winning car on the South Lawn.

We commend GM for being the first out of the starting gate in the Great Plug-In Car Race of 2007. GM's announcements are the biggest victories yet for CalCars.org and other PHEV advocates. Now our campaign is in third gear. We'll work with the auto industry, government, fleet buyers and advocates to get to the day -- soon, not in a decade -- when customers can buy PHEVs as easily as any other car.

All in all it was a smooth race, the car was very well balanced. I'm very proud to be the first winner here in India.

Every day in life there are challenges; whether you're an accountant, a race car driver or whatever you do.

Coltrane had a sax, Dale Earnhardt drives a race car and everybody has their tools.

I want to be known as a guy that was competitive in every type of race car he ever got in.

Like a race car you can't put in regular gas. That's what food is: your fuel.

The GTO is such an important car because it's a racing car and a touring car and that's pretty unusual.

I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course.

Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.

This sport is so tough so it's nice when you go run a sprint car and go win a race.

If there's anyone in space, what they'll learn about the human race will be listening to us talking on the car phone.

As a kid, I loved my Matchbox cars, my Big Wheels, and the race cars on TV. When I laid eyes on my first go-kart when I was just five, it gave my desire for making things with wheels go fast a focus. This combined with the fact that I've been incredibly competitive since a young age made for the proper mix of passion and aggression to become a race car driver.

Ty and I are extremely competitive. We don't go soft on each other. We push each other, which ultimately helps us both. We race against each other in everything we do, whether it's a foot race to the car when we go out to a restaurant at night or on the racetrack. It's in the back of my mind that he's on the track with me, but we're both competitive and want to win.

I'm like a fine-tuned race car. You've got to make frequent pit stops when you drink as much tea as I do.

Porsche is a driver's car - a performance car. That was funny - here's this awesome car, but it's got no cup holders.

These people yapped loudly of race, of race consciousness, of race pride, and yet suppressed its most delightful manifestations, love of color, joy of rhythmic motion, naive, spontaneous laughter. Harmony, radiance, and simplicity, all the essentials of spiritual beauty in the race they had marked for destructions.

Regarding the idea of race, .. no agreement seems to exist about what race means. Race seems to embody a fact as simple and as obvious as the noonday sun, but if that is so, why the endless wrangling about the idea and the facts of race. What is a race? How can it be recognized? Who constitute the several races?.

I grew up in the industry, so this whole entertainment thing is my world. If I had to leave it, maybe I'd be a race-car driver. That'd be awesome.

If I really had a true racing hero, I would say it's Tony Stewart, who I've always believed to be the best race car driver ever.

When I take go-karts out with my friends, it's a disaster normally. But in the race car, I'm calm because they pay me to do this, and I have to be professional.

As a race car driver, I don't think I will drive forever, because it is not so much a question of being competitive, but of seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.

I went to see my mother the other day, and she told me this story that I'd completely forgotten about how, when we were driving together, she would pull the car over, and by the time she had gotten out of the car, and gone around the car to let me out of the car, I would have already gotten out of the car and pretended to have died.

It is one thing to drive a Formula 1 car, and it is another thing to actually race it.

Any car which holds together for a whole race is too heavy.

One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car.

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

It seems that these phenomenal feats that race car drivers are performing are instinctive. They [require] very little mental workload.

I once heard a story, it's probably apocryphal, but I love the notion. That a car had flipped over and the baby was trapped underneath the car and the mother was thrown from the car. Then the mother lifted up the car to pull her child to safety. And I believe that my own strength comes from whom and what I love.

I have a real passion for driving. Earlier on in my life I wanted to be a race car driver. But I don't pay an extortionate amount of money for cars. I'm pretty frugal.

As a driver, you always want to win every race, but as a car owner you know that isn't very realistic.

I just try to go out there and be who I am and compete and bring home as many trophies as I can. That's what being a race car driver is all about and that's why I do what I do.

If I had a musical identity that was definable then it would be time to get into painting or something else. Race car driving.

These race cars are dangerous and you don't put someone in one unless you are 100 per cent certain that they can do what they need to do and be safe in the car.

We couldn't get the car back until well after the end of the race and we had very little time for repairs.

You never want to concede a place, but when you're leading the race or fighting for a podium position, you can find ways to make your car very wide!

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

A lot of times people would offer me movies and, because I'm a car freak, I'd look in a magazine and say, 'How much is this car? If you give me this car I'll show up and do the movie' I call 'em 'sports car flicks'.

It was a bit of a surprise for us that we had problems in Hungary. But in reality, I think the car could have been pretty competitive with a trouble-free race.

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

I just had....my Farmer's Insurance Chevrolet was the fasted car here. In the first run. We were going forward, just taking our time. Regan Smith was pretty slow. I was under him for a couple of laps. When my spotter cleared me in the center, I just took off, and he was there on exit. It is disappointing to have that good of a car and be out this early. Everybody at Hendrick Motorsports is doing such an awesome job. I've had awesome race cars, and I have nothing to show for it.