What Is Your Favorite Racing Quote?
Spend any amount of time, in any corner of the car scene, and you’re bound to discuss motorsports at some point. And one of the first conversation starters might be a quote from a famous person associated with the sport. Or maybe an overtly dramatic fictionalization of racing?
Cheesy though it might be, this famous quote from The Fast And The Furious likely inspired countless enthusiasts of a certain era, as it has the right combination of drama, reality, and passion.
So the question is now in your court: Tell us your favorite quote in racing. Are you a Dale Earnhardt “Second place is just the first loser,” or an Ayrton Senna’s “Going for gap“? Perhaps you take quotes from automotive manufacturing moguls, like Enzo Ferrari’s “Aerodynamics are for people who can’t build engines” or Henry Ford when he said, “Auto racing began five minutes after the second car was built.”
No matter who said it, we want to know your favorite racing quote in the comments section below!
“If you’re in control, you’re not going fast enough” Parnelli Jones
The bullshit stops when the flag drops!
“Rubbin is Racing”
The older I get, the faster I was-
“It done blowed up” – Sterling Marlin.
Understeer is when you see the tree you hit. Oversteer is when you only hear it.
Walter Rohrl
Racing is life. The rest is just waiting
I love Steve McQueen, but he was just paraphrasing Rudolf Caracciola who said it first;
“To race is to live. All the rest is simply waiting .”
–Rudolf Caracciola
I know he was cheating because I was cheating and he beat me.
If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t tryin.
“The older I get, the faster I was!”
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Smokey Yunick: when I asked him his opinion on the Chevrolet ‘W-motor’ (348) he simply said “Junk motor!” He wouldn’t run it or the ’58 Chevy on NASCAR, sticking with his ’57 small-block.
“While we’re still under a caution, I want you to go back out on thattrack and hit the pace car”. Harry Hogge “Days of Thunder”
NASCAR driver (Buddy Baker ?) on TV after a long spinning slide leading to a crash:
“I kinda got a little behind in my steering”
Towards the end of an F1 race, Kimi Raikonen was told to speed up by his engineer. Kimi responded: “Leave me alone. I know what I’m doing.”
We drove for the sheer fun of driving because there wasn’t that much money to be made.
Richard Petty