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Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game. — Carroll Shelby

And this is the third place car about to lap the second place car. — Murray Walker

Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream. — David Cassidy

I love horses. I spent seven years as a racing commissioner on a horse-racing board. — Bo Derek

And there's no damage to the car. Except to the car itself. — Murray Walker

I hadn't a clue who I was racing against. All I knew was how I was going to race. — Herb Elliott

On a horse that consistently hung left-The best thing you can do is put a bit of lead in his right ear, to act as a counterbalance ... with a shotgun. — Lester Piggott

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

Nothing is permanent, I tell myself over and over. Especially not a horse. — Mara Dabrishus

Heart was racing. — Heidi R. Kling

I don't really study the guys that I'm racing against. — Ryan Hall

The voices would not stop. They were a torment, Her past became a kaleidoscope of shifting images that kept racing through her mind. — Sidney Sheldon

You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing. — Greg LeMond

Formula 1 is a huge international phenomenon even if an otherwise car racing obsessed American public has always found Formula 1 to be a little weird. — Rachel Maddow

I love horse racing, I play golf, and I love travelling. — Ian Rush

But I plan on dedicating specific training to track this winter for the next racing season. — Mark-Paul Gosselaar

I try to keep myself in the best of company and my horses in the worst of company. — Len Goodman

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports ... all the others are games. — Ernest Hemingway,

I hope that I am still racing at 50, as long as I can get out of bed. — Justin Allgaier

Racing should never be an ordeal, rather an enjoyable and life-enhancing experience. — Bruce Fordyce

I ski to win. When the day comes that I can't get myself into a fighting mood anymore, I won't be able to win and I'll stop racing. — Ingemar Stenmark

In Italy, you sometimes get the impression they'd be happier to lose the Ppe than lose their right to drive like maniacs. — Jeremy Clarkson

Sailboat racing becomes a game of chance only when you are not prepared — Buddy Melges

As you can see, visually, with your eyes. — Murray Walker

Rally points scoring is twenty for the fastest, eighteen for the second fastest, right down to six points for the slowest fastest. — Murray Walker

Why waste your final hours racing about your cage denying you're a squirrel? — Ray Bradbury

The best way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a big one. — Junior Johnson

If you are always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you're in. — Zig Ziglar

Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement. — Sebastian Vettel

I don't do ski racing to be famous. — Ted Ligety

My mind is always racing. — Justin Bieber

Failure was startling, really. So startling that I hardly noticed it at all. — Jane Smiley

We drove for the sheer fun of driving because there wasn't that much money to be made. — Richard Petty

Road racing is rock 'n roll; track is Carnegie Hall. — Marty Liquori

I use to think all road racers were nuts. You know racing around a track at that speed. — Mick Doohan

Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph. — Peter Dunne

Nobody is born with a steering wheel or a gear shift in his hand. It's something you choose to do or you don't. — Mario Andretti

Stewart has two cars in the top five: Magnusson 5th and Barichello 6th. — Murray Walker

Unless I am very much mistaken ... I AM very much mistaken ... ! — Murray Walker

I guess everybody saw it. It's a deal where I'd been racing cars a long time and I knew going around the track the fender was on the tire hard. — Sterling Marlin

Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience. — Nigel Mansell

Thoughts were zipping around my head like fireflies in a jar, bumping into each other, blinking on and off. — Cameron West

Oh yes. It's not when you brake but when you take them off that counts. Most people don't understand that. — Jackie Stewart

There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile. — Richard Petty

This 51 Phoenix Racing team, I love them to death. They've got my back, I've got theirs. — Kurt Busch

Why do I let you do this to me?" Adam panted against his face, damp and warm, and heartbeat racing in his chest. "How do you ruin me like this? — Santino Hassell

The price for men in motion is the occasional collision ... — Carroll Smith

I've had an interest in racing all my life, or longer really. — Kevin Keegan

Nothing good has ever been written about the full rotation of a racecar about its roll axis. — Carroll Smith

I grew up in the North of England at a time when Stirling Moss was a hero. Everyone wanted to be a racing driver. — Ridley Scott

And suddenly I realized that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension. — Ayrton Senna

We do not invest in advertising ... So racing is the best advertising for Ferrari. — Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo

This ain't the 4-H rodeo at the Pocahontas County Fair ... this is horse racing — Jaimy Gordon

I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission. — Barry Sheene

I've always known there's more to life than just racing for a long time. — Casey Stoner

Racing, for me and for most people that watch it, it's about personalities. — Scott Dixon

I enjoy racing so much. Ever since I was 8 or 9, I trained every stroke, because it was the only way I could race a lot. — Ryan Lochte

Alain Prost is in a commanding second position — Murray Walker

There's only one racing strategy that matters.It's the one I run by:
Get in the lead and don't let anyone pass you. — Megan McCafferty

Frentzen is taking, er, reducing that gap between himself and Frentzen. — Murray Walker

I've been racing for my whole life, and I know what I need to do to be able to win. — J. R. Celski

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

I attribute being a good center fielder to many things, but being outside with friends as a kid, running around and racing, that was a big part of it. — Torii Hunter

If lightning strikes while you're in the car it's your fault. — Doc Bundy

From upstair there was a new sound the only thing that could stop me in this endless instant, a frantic pounding, a racing beat, a changing heart. — Stephenie Meyer

I grew up racing off-road trucks. They were on road courses with jumps. I made a name for myself in that style of racing. — Jimmie Johnson

I love the cowbell. I think it's awesome. My family got the cowbell app on their iPhones. It's a classic part of ski racing. — Lindsey Vonn

I'm a casual F1 racing fan. I'm probably more of a stock car, NASCAR guy. — Robin Zander

I think you grow up wanting to be a racing driver. Then it dawns on you that it's not going to happen. — Dominic Cooper

As the son of a racing car designer and mechanical engineer, I was exposed to motorsports from day one. — Charlie Kimball

There's enough Ferraris here to eat a plate of spaghetti. — Jackie Stewart

I love it in the States. The roads are big, the food is big. If it was possible to be in L.A. and still live my racing life, I would move now. — Lewis Hamilton

Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th. — Murray Walker

A cat can outrace the best thoroughbred horse if only it can grasp the idea of racing. — Mark Helprin

And here comes Mika Hakkinen, double world champion twice over. — Murray Walker

Ferrari leads, McLaren second, McLaren second, Jordan third, and Benneton fifth and sixth. — Murray Walker

I've decided to retire from top class racing. It has been an incredible experience and has provided with me some unforgettable moments. — Sete Gibernau

Patience is the inclination to control the racing mind, which wants to jump ahead. — Balroop Singh

Owning a racehorse is probably the most expensive way of getting on to a racecourse for nothing. — Clement Freud

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

That's the first time he had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in Canada earlier this year. — Murray Walker

My No. 1 goal in racing was never to be the most popular driver. — Brad Keselowski

Impatience is racing at misery full speed. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Pain is that last quarter of a mile. You feel it, but when you're through racing, your whole body just feels elated. So the pain is worth it. — Louis Zamperini

The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally. — Nat King Cole

Racing drivers have balls, unfortunantly, none of them are crystal — David Coulthard

I think I was always realistic - well, not the Percy thing, that was ridiculous - but I never dreamed of being a racing car driver or anything. — Alan Titchmarsh

A mediocre season for Nelson Piquet as he is now known and always has been. — Murray Walker

There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the next. — Tony McCoy

The excitement of automobile racing did not compare with what I knew must come with aeroplane fighting in France. — Eddie Rickenbacker

Everything was fine until I left and then I ran out of talent! — Don Garlits

And the first three cars are all Escorts, which isn't surprising as this is an all Escort race. — Murray Walker

This would have been Senna's third win a row if he'd won the two before — Murray Walker

Jean Todt's system will never succeed, not even with Michael Schumacher — Niki Lauda

The hunger and desire to go racing, however, never leaves your blood but the right opportunity has never really come along - until now that is. — Nigel Mansell

Can you giggle while racing for your life and protecting a six-year-old? I can. — James Patterson

As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto is fifth. — Murray Walker

The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia. — Davy Jones

Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers. — Colin McRae

Sitting beside the pool is fine for two weeks, but after that I think it'd be quite hard to live with - so I need to keep racing. — Mark Webber