Top 1200 Stock Car Racing Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.

I loved playing in the fields back home and racing with my fellow students on the way to school.

When I write, it's intimate. I write in the car, and I don't even hear, like, ambulances driving past me because I'm in my car, listening to the music, writing. I record in an attic with no booth. It's not like I'm in the dark with candles, but it's like a house, a home, and I record like that. I think that plays into the music.

If we have close, great racing like we have, then the ratings will take care of themselves.

I think you grow up wanting to be a racing driver. Then it dawns on you that it's not going to happen.

In 'The Bourne Identity,' I wanted to give the audience the feeling of being in the car with Jason Bourne, not just watching him drive but be in the car with him, and 'The Wall' is the continuation of that immersive filmmaking style. Where you're trapped behind the wall with Aaron Taylor-Johnson - for better or worse, you're trapped there with him.

Racing shirts should be sold on big, thick rolls like paper towels.

We can assume that most people, most of the time, are moral creatures. But imagine that this morality is like a gearshift that at times gets pushed into neutral. When that happens, morality is disengaged. If the car happens to be on an incline, car and driver move precipitously downhill. It is then the nature of the circumstances that determines outcomes, not the driver's skills or intentions.

The stock market is a discounter of all known information.

Your mind is a cupboard and you stock the shelves.

TO be racing in Formula One with Mclaren has been the ultimate goal for me. It's a dream come true.

Hip-hop to me right now is really easy listening. It's very easy listening, like there's nothing abrasive about it. There's no album that I put in my car that makes me roll down the windows - all the windows - and ride past the club line three times before I get out the car.

I get the 'Daily Mirror,' purely and simply because they put the Racing Post prices in.

I'm from durable stock. I'm made to work. I'm Irish.

Laughing stock: cattle with a sense of humor.

There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the next.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.

When my first book came out, it was very disorienting. My health went south. I didn't know how to relate to people. I thought, "Now I have this way to be in the world that's going to be wonderful. It'll be like driving a great car, really streamlined." But it actually was difficult because, if you have a public persona, something you don't fully have control over, it's more like being in a car with controls you don't really understand.

I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again.

We've got a lot of racing left, but when we're winning at places we're not supposed to, you better watch out.

A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.

My first car was a little white Volkswagen City Golf. They've just been discontinued in South Africa, but they were the staple first car for most of my peer group. It's the most entry-level four-door four-seater that Volkswagen ever made. I named him Doug. I don't know why.

He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

It is true that rich people can spend more money than middle class people, but there's this upper limit on what we can spend. I drive a very nice car, but it's only one car. I don't own a thousand, even though I earn a thousand times the median wage. I have a few jackets, not a few thousand.

The memories are vague of the accident. I remember coming out of the pitlane with cruise control, letting it go and then losing control of the car. I remember my hands frantically operating the steering wheel trying to recover control of the car, then this big, big noise and nothing more.

Running an airline is the most difficult job in the world. Racing was more dangerous for my life.

Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

This is what I have always done in my life, just racing and driving cars and go-karts fast.

You can film the most exciting car chase and the most exciting stunts, but if you don't care about the person inside the car, and you don't care about their predicament, you're not really going to care about the action, either.

I think Stirling Moss represents everything that a racing driver should be and first of all, it's passion.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

I was much too late when I found out about my passion for motor racing. I was 18.

My first memory of motor racing - I think it was just attending a go kart race.

Normally, racing drivers come from a long line of previous successful sports people.

A car produces about one pound of CO2 per mile. There is no problem with collecting the CO2 in the tailpipe, but one might easily end up with a trailer hitched to the car for carrying all this CO2 back to the filling station. The gas burned from a 15-gallon tank would fill up five 60-inch-tall gas bottles.

I wouldn't dream of watching motor racing, cycling, or golf - which aren't truly sports anyway.

It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on

Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive.

Gary Smith, when I came to America, taught me a great deal about racing.

I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.

It is important for a racing driver, for myself and for the team, that we can say that we trust each other, and it is not lightly said.

I love good balance, so being a collector is a fun little thing while we travel this world. I mean, every night, it's something else. The other night, I head-banged a dude on my rental car and drove him through the curtain in my rental car. So some moments are not as good as others, but they are all fun, that's for sure.

If the picture is not an artistic picture, it's show, like television. Television series are very funny, but it's a collective production. An industrial art. A car is not made by a person, it's made by a group of creators, only to go to the market to buy your cigarettes. That is a car - they are not a big art, they are a little art.

If you sign someone with the speed but whose time is over, they will set up the car differently and badly. You are 80 percent of the time going through corners, and you set up the car differently compared to someone who comes and wants to go flat out.

It's a huge challenge for us to get the (43) car back to Victory Lane, to get the car in the Chase, to get back to where I would love to see us win the championship, ... Is it a reality next year You've seen a lot of things happen in the sport and you look at it and ask 'How'd that happen'

Money, horse racing and women: three things the boys just can't figure out.

I remember being at Greenblatt's on Sunset, and some guy just walked straight up to me, and he had some bling on and whatever, and said something about a party down in Malibu and asked if I would jump in his car and go to the party. All I could think was, 'Who are you? I don't know you, and I don't care about how good your car is.'

The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.

For me, the American Dream was to go racing; for others, it's to pursue whatever their goals may be.

I hate weekends because there is no stock market.

I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.

It's always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.

Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.

I don't put too much stock in polls.

In the car on my way to premieres and awards shows, I'll sit with tissue paper under my armpits so I don't soil the delicate dress fabric. The whole time, I'm telling myself, 'Please don't sweat, please don't sweat.' I throw the tissues out right before I step out of the car, and nobody ever knows! I just put on a smile and fake it.

I suddenly realized I was racing around so much, I could never catch up with my life

My father was an investment banker, a stock broker.

Its always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.

A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.