Funny Racing Quotes

Funny Racing Quotes by Richard Childress, Mario Andretti, Colin McRae, Dorian Williams, Christopher Poole, John Bonifaz and many others.

Once you've raced, you never forget it...and you never

Once you’ve raced, you never forget it…and you never get over it.
Richard Childress
The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses.
Mario Andretti
Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.
Colin McRae
He’s a very competitive competitor, that’s the sort of competitor he is.
Dorian Williams
A racing horse is not like a machine. It has to be tuned up like a racing car.
Christopher Poole
Nelson Mandela said: ‘It always seems impossible until it’s done.’ Peace is possible.
John Bonifaz
Race cars are neither beautiful nor ugly. They become beautiful when they win.
Enzo Ferrari
Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track, and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey, and you go to jail.
Junior Johnson
The older I get, the faster I was.
Charles Barkley
Aerodynamics are for people who can’t build engines.
Enzo Ferrari
When I started racing my father told me, ‘Cristiano, nobody has three balls but some people have two very good ones.’
Cristiano da Matta
It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.
Mario Andretti
It’s like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium
Dick Trickle
To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster.
Stirling Moss
It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance.
Jackie Stewart
The best way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a big one.
Junior Johnson
Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.
Damon Hill
Nobody remembers the guy who finished second but the guy who finished second.
Bobby Unser
Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.
Dave Barry
The miracle isn’t that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.
John Bingham
Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that’s what gets you.
Jeremy Clarkson
There’s Pam watching anxiously. She doesn’t look anxious though.
Stephen Hadley
The winner ain’t the one with the fastest car. It’s the one who refuses to lose.
Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
As far as cheating goes, they’ll never stop it. The only way it can be done successfully, only one person can know about it.
Smokey Yunick
Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls.
Stirling Moss
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
Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports… all the others are games.
Ernest Hemingway
We broke something, I think it was traction.
Carl Edwards
There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.
Murray Walker
What’s behind you doesn’t matter.
Enzo Ferrari