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Motorsports quotes – Wisdom Wednesday

"Really, you should always discuss the defeats because you can learn much more from failure than from success." - Niki Lauda

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." - Mario Andretti

"What a f****** idiot." - Max Verstappen

"To finish first, you must first finish." - Juan Manuel Fangio

"I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win." - Ayrton Senna

"I've always believed that you should never, ever give up and you should always keep fighting even when there's only a slightest chance." - Michael Schumacher

"Auto racing began five minutes after the second car was built." - Henry Ford

"Life is measured in achievement, not in years alone." - Bruce McLaren

"Leave me alone, I know what to do." - Kimi Matias Räikkönen

"I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush." - Graham Hill

"Nobody remembers who finished second but the guy who finished second." - Bobby Unser

"Sometimes you've just got to lick the stamp and send it." - Daniel Ricciardo

"Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines." - Enzo Ferrari

"The ideal racecar will expire 100 yards past the finish line." - Stirling Moss

"The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel. But more powerful than fear itself, is the will to win." - James Hunt

"You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood." - Ayrton Senna

"The winner ain't the one with the fastest car, it's the one who refuses to lose." - Dale Earnhardt

"The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses." - Mario Andretti

"What’s behind you doesn’t matter." - Enzo Ferrari

"A lot of people criticize Formula One as an unnecessary risk. But what would life be like if we only did what is necessary?" - Niki Lauda

"Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death." - Hunter Thompson

"If God had meant for us to walk, why did he give us feet that fit car pedals?" - Stirling Moss

"When speed gets in the blood, one must drive to live." - Rudolf Caracciola

"You don't expect to be at the top of the mountain the day you start climbing." - Ron Dennis

"You never really know how quick you are before you reach F1." - Jean Alesi

"Hug the apex like it’s your favourite granny." - Martin Brundle

"Racing is a matter of spirit not strength." - Janet Guthrie

"The moment money becomes your motivation, you are immediately not as good as someone who is stimulated by passion and internal will." - Sebastian Vettel

"He ran out of talent about halfway through the corner." - Buddy Baker

"Racing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting." - Steve McQueen

"Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than others." - Ayrton Senna

"I hate losing. It doesn't matter if it's racing or playing Ping-Pong - I hate it." - Lewis Hamilton

"Racing is full of 'what-ifs.' Like anything else in life, you learn from your mistakes and move on to the next challenge." - Robby Gordon

"Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers." - Colin McRae

"In racing, I wanted to be a winner and to be a winner, you have to be willing to roll the dice." - Bobby Rahal

"Once you’ve raced, you never forget it…and you never get over it." - Richard Childress

"The best way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a big one." - Junior Johnson

"It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance." - Jackie Stewart

"If you no longer go for a gap which exists you are no longer a racing driver." - Ayrton Senna

"It is more fun to drive a slow car fast than to drive a fast car slow." - Abner Perney

"You win some, you lose some, you wreck some." - Dale Earnhardt Sr.

"Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports… all the others are games." - Ernest Hemingway

"It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down." - Mario Andretti

"There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love." - Stirling Moss

"Simply, simply lovely." - Max Verstappen

"It's not a throttle-it's a detonator." - Jeremy Clarkson

"Racing is a drug, I'm addicted to it." - Harry Schell

"Why worry about death, it’ll come sooner or later." - Jim Dunn

"Race cars are neither beautiful nor ugly. They become beautiful when they win." - Enzo Ferrari

"Most people think Santa Claus enters through the chimney. But he enters through the heart." - Saint Nicholas

"I didn’t have statistics in my mind when I was racing. It was always a consequence – a nice consequence. I enjoyed it, but it wasn’t the reason I was racing." - Michael Schumacher

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

"I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence." - Ayrton Senna

"Money is how we keep the score in motor racing nowadays." - Colin Chapman

"After the third flip, I lost control..." - Don Roberts

The harder you work, the luckier you become." - Roger Penske

"I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing." - Mark Webber

"Finishing races is important, but racing is more important." - Dale Earnhardt

"Racing is the constant search for the weakest link." - Duane Bailey

"Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action." - Damon Hill

"We all envy the drivers and wish we had their job, but they put their lives on the line every time they suit up for a race." - Mario Andretti

"We do not invest in advertising... So racing is the best advertising for Ferrari." - Luca di Montezemolo

"To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster." - Stirling Moss

"To whom it may concern, F*** You!" - Valtteri Bottas

"When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast." - Alain Prost

"Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that's really what it feels like." - Mario Andretti

"You can tell that you’re in trouble when you feel the air on the back of your neck instead of in your face." - Buddy Baker

"Racing makes heroin addiction look like a vague wish for something salty." - Peter Egan

"Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down." - Dave Barry

"No, no, he didn’t slam you, he didn’t bump you, he didn’t nudge you… he *rubbed* you. And rubbin, son, is racin’." - Harry Hogge

"No, I don’t drive her to win, I just drive her as fast as she will go." - Juan Manuel Fangio

"You can’t fix stupid." - Larry Morgan

"When in doubt, flat out" - Colin McRae

"You don't need brakes to drive fast" - Tazio Nuvolari

"When I was in F1, sex was safe and motor racing was dangerous." - Jackie Stewart

"Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style." - Michael Schumacher

"Driving a race car is like dancing with a chainsaw." - Cale Yarborough

"I'm not afraid to lose, i'm just afraid I won't win." - Charrel Jalving

"It doesn't matter what they say about you as long as they spell your name right." - Tom McEwan

"There's something loose between my legs. Apart from the obvious. Something bouncing around between my feet. I'd be proud if it is what you think it is, but it is not." - Sebastian Vettel

Category: OtherJanuary 3, 2021

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