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 are udder control, you are not going fast enough” – I believe George Follmer (of early Trans Am fame ) said that
Under Phone changed to udder. Lol
Not a quote but mentioning the 1/4 mile Fast and Furious quote always reminds me of “Danger to Manifold” which is a quotable thing from that movie.
“I didn’t mean to turn him around, I just meant to rattle his cage.” Dale Earnhardt
“We would like to thank all the funny car racers for using a Chrysler Hemi in their cars”-Quote from a Dodge Ad.
“That race is like a 10-hour plane crash” -Parnelli describing the Baja 1000.
“Driving the thang is like trying to dribble a football” Unknown Drag Racer
“I would love to have that track official who says “OK the track is dry enough” drive my racer car down the track”-Bob Glidden
Reading from the Book of Revolutions “He who is without oil pressure shalt throw the first rod”
better put some rubberbands around your britchy legs, so ants don’t eat your candy ass…
Dale Earnhardt
“What’s- a behind me is not important.” Raul Julia, Gumball Rally
If It’s not in the Rules, It must be Legal. Tim Pawl at Indy 1992
While towing my hubby’s race car, truckers used to ask me “How fast will it go in the quarter mile”!
Mickey Thompson was once asked what it is like driving in the Baja 1000. His response, “it’s like being in an all day plane crash!!”
“It was my corner. He got in my way. I ran over him.”
–Bruno Giacomelli, Alfa Romeo, on the old course at Detroit
“In my day, the drivers were fat and the tyres were skinny.” –Luigi Chinetti
“What is behind me does not matter.”
-Italian driver in “Gumball Rally.”
“Is not important.”
Franco, played by Raul Julia. Wonderful quote!👍👍
“Motor racing is a disease of the brain, you know. It gets affected by it.”
Robs Lamplough
“There are only three sports: bullfighting, mountain climbing and auto-racing. Everything else is just a game.” -Ernest Hemingway
“Straights are just the dull bits that connect the turns” – Sterling Moss
“It is better to go into a corner slow and come out fast, than to go in fast and come out dead.” – Stirling Moss
“Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, don’t fail me now!” – Elwood Blues (The Blues Brothers).
“He got a little behind in his steering.” Dorsey Schroeder
“He got to the corner and ran out of talent.” unknown