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Racing is the constant search for the weakest link. -- Duane Bailey
Racing is the fun part; it's the reward of all the hard work. -- Kara Goucher
Racing is a calling, a passion. -- Janet Guthrie
Racing is the only time I feel whole. -- James Dean
Racing is a matter of spirit not strength. -- Janet Guthrie
Racing is life. Everything else is just waiting. -- Steve McQueen
Racing and hunting excite man's heart to madness. -- Laozi
Racing through the field and hunting make the mind wild. -- Laozi
Racing drivers have balls, unfortunantly, none of them are crystal -- David Coulthard
Racing is been my profession since I was 19 years old. -- Danica Patrick
Running an airline is a normal job. Racing is more. -- Niki Lauda
Racing is not what I like to do; it's winning. -- Jeff Gordon
Racing does to white guys what movies do to black guys. -- Daniel Tosh
Racing is licking your opponent's plate clean before starting on your own -- Tim Krabbe
Racing shirts should be sold on big, thick rolls like paper towels. -- Brad Alan Lewis
Racing should never be an ordeal, rather an enjoyable and life-enhancing experience. -- Bruce Fordyce
Racing, for me and for most people that watch it, it's about personalities. -- Scott Dixon
Racing is in my blood, I can't quite get out of it yet. -- Dick Trickle
And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing. -- Murray Walker
Racing is dangerous, but I've been in a lot worse situations as a pipe fitter. -- Neil Bonnett
Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation. -- Enzo Ferrari
This 51 Phoenix Racing team, I love them to death. They've got my back, I've got theirs. -- Kurt Busch
Racing may be a minority sport, but I wouldn't swap it for all the money in the world. -- Tony McCoy
Racing is a passion...at this level, a source of immense gratification. So the rest is no problem. -- Janet Guthrie
Racing has become more show time; we've got to have something new to create interest in the sport. -- Richard Petty
Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience. -- Nigel Mansell
Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game. -- Carroll Shelby
Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years. -- Bruce Greenwood
Training was a rite of purification; from it came speed, strength. Racing was a rite of death; from it came knowledge -- John L. Parker Jr.
If the Indy Racing League didn't have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance. -- Mario Andretti
Racing is about discipline and intelligence, not about who has the heavier foot. The one who drives smart will always win in the end. -- Garth Stein
Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too. -- Janet Guthrie
I can't even find the perfect brush so I can paint what's going through my mind. Racing 'gainst myself but I'm a couple steps behind. -- Drake
Racing is an escape from society. From symbols of status, and self-perception. A chance to just be. For everyone to just be, with each other. -- Erin Beresini
Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego. -- Greg LeMond
Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego." -- Greg LeMond
All Politicians should be required to wear uniforms like Racing Car Drivers with patches showing the donations received from special interest groups so we know who has paid them off! -- John Wallace
Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else. -- Ayrton Senna
There are many different types of prioritites in Motor Racing, the first...being how much you are willing to sacrifice in order to get to where you want to go. -- Carroll Smith
I am grateful to Penske Racing for six very productive years. Together we won a lot of races - 16 in all. I'm proud that we won on a variety of tracks. -- Kurt Busch
The funny thing is that people see one film like 'Racing Stripes' or 'Ice Princess' and all of a sudden, slip me into this category of 'that's what she's always involved in. -- Hayden Panettiere
Racing is bulging at the seams with pure nutball characters, men who can drink more, screw more, fight more, laugh more, joke more, than practically any collection of people in the world. -- Brock Yates
I'm a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I'm commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car. -- Murray Walker
Racing is not football or baseball or basketball where you can do it yourself. If you're good in high school, you just shine. (But in racing) you have to have a family behind you. -- Trevor Bayne
Racing comes easily to me, especially the 100 metres. That is why, no matter how fast I run the run the 100 metres, the 200 will always mean more to me, because of the effort I've put in. -- Usain Bolt
Racing a marathon is a true and simple way to test the human spirit. Whether it goes perfectly or poorly you will certainly learn something about yourself and be a better person for having tackled the distance. -- Blake Russell
Racing is what I live for, and it makes my world go around. Having said that, without the support of the diabetes community, I may not have gotten back into the race car after my diagnosis in October 2007. -- Charlie Kimball
Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it's all about. -- PattiSue Plumer
The bike that I've been riding is a Big Ripper. It' an SE Racing 29" bike that Famous [Stars & Straps] did a collaboration with and Travis [Barker] gave to me. So that's the bike that I cruise around on and bunny-hop on. -- Matt Skiba
We all know the guy who sits at the end of the local bar telling the story of how he threw the winning touchdown pass in High School. I don't want to be that guy. Racing gives us all the chance to be athletes again. -- Don Panoz
Simplify and add lightness -- Colin Chapman
The ideal racecar will expire 100 yards past the finish line. -- Stirling Moss
The price for men in motion is the occasional collision... -- Carroll Smith
Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built. -- Henry Ford
If lightning strikes while you're in the car it's your fault. -- Doc Bundy
Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers. -- Colin McRae
In the old days drivers were fat and tires were skinny. -- Jose Froilan Gonzalez
Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you. -- Jeremy Clarkson
Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph. -- Peter Dunne
The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start. -- John Bingham
The best way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a big one. -- Junior Johnson
Nothing good has ever been written about the full rotation of a racecar about its roll axis. -- Carroll Smith
Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games. -- Ernest Hemingway
There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose. -- Garth Stein
You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood. -- Ayrton Senna
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
Nobody is born with a steering wheel or a gear shift in his hand. It's something you choose to do or you don't. -- Mario Andretti
Sometimes you have to bring back only the steering wheel so the car owner will know that you're giving it all you have. -- Mario Andretti
I make jokes about the fact that as a neuro-surgeon I shouldn't be required at a motor race because the drivers don't have any brains.... otherwise they wouldn't race. -- Sid Watkins
I don't know driving in another way which isn't risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other's. -- Ayrton Senna
I feel safe when I'm on the racetrack, I really do. I know that I'm surrounded by the best drivers in the world. That's something you can't say when you're driving down the interstate. -- Sterling Marlin
What sets these - and all - racers apart from less daredevilish mortals is their complete lack of fear and their joy of doing something on the edge. They love to speed because it is dangerous. -- Peter Golenbock
Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement. -- Sebastian Vettel
I've stopped racing to get to the red light. -- Kyle Chandler
Finishing races is important, but racing is more important. -- Dale Earnhardt
You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing. -- Greg LeMond
When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough. -- Ayrton Senna
There are other things that I could do, but there's really nothing that I love as much as horse racing. -- Chantal Sutherland
I work six months and get three or four with the family. I've stopped racing to get to the red light. -- Kyle Chandler
Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that's really what it feels like. -- Mario Andretti
I've decided to retire from top class racing. It has been an incredible experience and has provided with me some unforgettable moments. -- Sete Gibernau
There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the next. -- Tony McCoy
I want to keep pushing the limits to see what's possible. That's the nice thing about ski racing - no one is stopping you from going faster. -- Lindsey Vonn
I spend all day thinking of shopping. I love the thrill of finding that wonderful, perfect thing, the feeling of your heart racing because it's so right. -- Mindy Grossman
The sport of horse racing which, at its best, showcases the majestic beauty of this animal and the athleticism of jockeys, has reached an alarming level of corruption and exploitation. -- Tom Udall
When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible. -- Dale Earnhardt
Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep. -- Dale Archer
If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari. -- Gilles Villeneuve
I love it in the States. The roads are big, the food is big. If it was possible to be in L.A. and still live my racing life, I would move now. -- Lewis Hamilton
I was racing through life, utterly confused and angry. I don't know if I was out of control; it was more like I felt frustrated with myself and everything I saw happening around me. -- Jimmy Nail
It's not really about the competition. Your biggest challenge in a race is yourself. You're often racing against time. You're frequently running everything through your mind. You're always competing against preconceived ideas. It's not really the person next to you that you worry about. -- Summer Sanders
Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps. -- Carl Honore
We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal - fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our kitchen or getting that promotion - that it will make us happy. But the pain of our insecurity is hidden in all that racing around. -- Dani Shapiro
I never had any financial support or sponsors, and so I always had to, at every level, prove myself the hard way. I was five years in Japan before I got my debut at Le Mans. And I think this is a humble way to get through as a racing driver. -- Tom Kristensen
Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it's just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing. -- Mark-Paul Gosselaar
I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother's Morris Minor. I drove it around my father's farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years. -- Rowan Atkinson
I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away. -- Gary Oldman
Horse racing is animated roulette. -- Roger Kahn
I love swimming because racing. -- Ryan Lochte
I enjoy Saturday night racing. -- Dale Earnhardt
My mind is always racing. -- Justin Bieber
Why is your heart racing Tris? -- Veronica Roth
Being married has helped my racing. -- Casey Stoner
Horse racing is waning in popularity. -- Elayne Boosler
I want to be up front racing. -- Dale Earnhardt
My focus is definitely on the racing. -- Scott Dixon
Indy car racing is much more aggressive. -- Emerson Fittipaldi
Going to car racing school was phenomenal. -- Michelle Rodriguez
The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended. -- Enzo Ferrari
Boogity, boogity boogity! Letâ??s go racing boys! -- Darrell Waltrip
Again, racing for me was about energy management. -- Frank Shorter
Your perception of racing needs to be fine-tuned -- Mick Doohan
I didn't get into racing to make friends. -- Jimmie Johnson
I love racing and I love doing well. -- Scott Dixon
My father instilled in me a love for racing. -- Kurt Busch
I have to accept risk as a racing driver. -- Emerson Fittipaldi
Dating means two things; disillusionment or a racing heart. -- Mae West
I don't play racing games, unless it's 'Mario Kart. -- Scott Porter
A racing driver has to be a good driver. -- Emerson Fittipaldi
Pain is like a cardio, it keeps heart racing -- Puneet Aggarwal

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