From a racing website:

Quotes

* Aerodynamics are for people who cannot build engines. (Enzo Ferrari)
* All I had to do is keep turning left! (George Robson - Winner of the 1946 Indy 500)
* Anyone can drive a fast car, few can drive a car fast.
* Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports...
all the others are games. (Jim Dietz)
* Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls. (Stirling Moss)
* The cost of racing hasn't increased in 30 years. Back then, it took everything you had. And it still does.
* Fast cars drag race, fast drivers road race.
* Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death... (Hunter Thompson)
* Friends don't let friends apex early.
* Horsepower has this tendency to break things. If you're not breaking anything you're not going fast enough.
* I always ask God for blessings of protection on that person in the car, for blessings of protection on the crew as they're attending to the car on pit road. And I always ask for peace of mind for the wife. (Dale Beaver - NASCAR chaplain)
* 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 drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
* 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)
* I feel safer on a racetrack than I do on Houston's freeways. (A. J. Foyt)
* I live my life a quarter mile at a time.
* I was doing fine until about mid-corner when I ran out of talent.
* If I had all the money I'd spent on cars...I'd spend it all on cars.
* If you can't run with the big dogs, Stay on the porch
* If you're going to lead, then lead.
If you're going to follow, get the hell out of my way!
* In the old days drivers were fat and tires were skinny.
* It has been said that motor racing shares in common with sex the distinction of being one of the most popular, most maligned and least understood of human activities.
* It is amazing how may drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down. (Mario Andretti)
* It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance. (Jackie Stewart)
* It's basically the same, just darker. (Alan Kulwicki - on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons)
* Life may begin at 30, but it doesn't get real interesting until about 150.
* Never drive faster then your guardian angel can fly.
* Never run out of real estate, traction and ideas at the same time.
* The number of laps remaining is always one more than the amount of fuel left in the car.
* The number of times you get hit in a pileup is directly proportional to the number of times you said "I think it will go ok today".
* The older I get, the faster I was.
* On the other side of fear there is freedom!
* Once you've raced, you never forget it...and you never get over it. (Richard Childress)
* Oversteer is when your [Edited by Moparts - Keep it clean] hits the wall, Understeer is when your face hits the wall!
* Oversteer scares passengers, understeer scares drivers.
* A part never breaks during a test session, only during a race. And the part you need will be the one you left at the shop.
* The price for men in motion is the occasional collision... (Carroll Smith)
* Race car drivers love the fast lane.
* Race cars are neither beautiful nor ugly. They become beautiful when they win. (Enzo Ferrari)
* Racing is living, everything else is just waiting.
* Racing is the process of turning money into noise.
* Racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph. (Peter Dunne)
* Second place is the first loser. (Dennis Anderson)
* The shortest way between two points is a straight line...what's the fun in that?
* Straights are for fast cars. Turns are for fast drivers.
* A 10-car pileup never happens behind you!
* There's no secret. You just press the accelerator to the floor and steer left. (Bill Vukovich)
* To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster. (Sterling Moss)
* To finish first, first you have to finish
* 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 Golenback)
* What's behind you doesn't matter. (Enzo Ferrai)
* 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)
* When you win a race your on top that day, so take it for what its worth, have a good time and party, cause the next day when you get out of bed, the meter goes back to zero again. (Bobby Allison)
* Winners win races. Champions make it look easy.
* Wrecks are going to happen in this business, that's just a risk of the sport. If you can't keep from worrying about it, then you're in the wrong line of work. (Coo Coo Marlin)
* You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood. (Ayrton Senna)
* You win some, you lose some, you wreck some. (Dale Earnhardt)

All very nice, and most spoken by true racers.
I would add:
1. Don't brake until you see God, just don't meet him
2. Winning by 1/2", is still winning
3. Its more fun to have more horsepower then talent
4. If I caught you, you are slower
5. And I quote this months car Craft "unlike car racing, golf, football, and soccer only require one ball"
6. If Americans were real racers, they would race DOWN Pikes Peak

Cool post.

I'll add Rod Hall's line
"In order to finish first you must first finish"

I'd rather be lucky than good. Don Prudhomme.

those are pretty good!

I have to throw in a days of thunder quote.
Harry Hogge: 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'.

#3 Buddy Baker speaking of an ill-handling Cup car at Darlington when TNN did the race: "I wouldn't get outta' the electric chair to drive that thing".

#2 Kyle Petty describing Bobby Hillen's point of view after Hillen creamed him during a minor spin-out at Talladega: "Here comes that blind boy again".

#1 Felix Sabates talking about fast race cars(and you have to apply your best Cuban accent when you're reading this): "If money is what makes these cars fast, my cars otta be going 400 miles an hour!".

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

Typical saying for a squid at a local circle track - "He hit everything but the snackbar"

Buddy Baker - Bustin' a timin' chain is like throwin' a brick at a clock

Buddy Baker - Passin' Earnhardt is like trying to take a bone out of a Pit Bulls mouth

"Best way to make a small fortune racing is to start with a big one".

"You're only as good as your next pass."-Bob Glidden

My all time favorite.

"If you're in control, you're not going fast enough." - Parnelli Jones

Stay flat and steer a lot.

John Wiebe "Theres a light at the end of the tunnel"
Don Garlits "John,Its a train"

Saw this on a shirt at Darlington years ago.


Some Fear... if you got No Fear your not going fast enough!

2 that kind of irk me a little. 2nd place is the first loser? Really, what if you ran 2nd in any known series in EVERY race? What's the chance you will win the championship? I rest my case.

The other is " you gotta crash or spin to find the limit". Jeff Gordon said once, " to find the lmiit is just an ugly lap where you get wide and wobbly, you don't need to take such a big bite that you cross the line and crash the car".

"Only meant to rattle his cage a little bit"- Dale Earnhardt after putting Terry Labonte in the wall at Bristol. Too bad junior dont drive like daddy.

"Parts don't break. We break them" - Carroll Smith

"Mr. Bentley - He builds fast trucks." - E. Bugatti

"It was very fast in a certain kind of turn. Unfortunately, none of the tracks had that kind of turn."

Quote:

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* Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports...
all the others are games. (Jim Dietz)

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Actually, I think that quote was originally spoken by Ernest Hemingway.