Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don’t have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.

Most fellas like the races, though, Miss. It’s only human nature

Fact One: Races are won or lost in key moments. Fact Two: Success in the sport is, above all else, about enduring suffering.

If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.

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

Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in automobile racing, a driver must never remember.

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.

Putting down the power right from the whistle would be ugly and brutal, but it would get the job done. He wanted to tell her that, but this was the thing with coaching: you had...

In racing, they say that your car goes where your eyes go. The driver who cannot tear his eyes away from the wall as he spins out of control will meet that wall; the driver...

Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that’s really what it feels like.

It was very quiet at the hotel, as if there had been a death in the family. When you have quit the Tour, nobody really knows what to say or do. (…) Everything I’d previously...

What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle.

If the Indy Racing League didn’t have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.

I want to be the best race horse around when I grow up, Mama.You can be, Charlie, as long as you are willing to try your best and not give up when you have a...

I hate studying and I hate partying. But I’m okay with motocross. And muscles.Motocross and Muscles. Now that should be a Lifetime movie.

Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.

Star” in myname. I have a feeling I’m going to be a star as a jumper.

He’s tall with shaggy blond hair and muscular arms. He’s holding a twenty-dollar bill. He’s muscular. And he’s holding a twenty–wait, I already said that.

If CART continues on, it’s just going to drag all of open-wheel racing down.

Charlene’s thoughts:I’m next in the green jumper’s Class. I thought I’d be in the red jumpers’ class because of my red hair.

I had a dream about you. We were racing to be the slowest person on earth. You were winning, which meant you were losing. You were gloating because you were a winner, and I was...

CART is one of the safest racing series in the world.

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

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

Well, good afternoon, sunshine. How are you feeling?””Like something the cat dragged in, then dragged back outside to leave in the rain, and mud, then the lightning hit it, and burned it, and the cat...

My son is racing his first 24-hour this year with Porsche.

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.

You won’t always spoil her .or treat her like a princess.You won’t tell her she’s beautiful everyday.You won’t make her smile every night and you won’t always want her the way you do now.That fades.Those...

In F1 too many things overshadow the racing. There is too much politics.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a footballer and racing driver, like all kids.

Footballers are kept in such a bubble that horse racing is a release.

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

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.’

Running a race assigns a point to a sport that often feels very pointless. It’s an exuberant payoff to months of tedium. It’s a way of crafting an end boss for a particularly cumbersome video...