Race Quotations

[Kwackerz]

"The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical"

- Murray Walker
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"It's basically the same, just darker."

- Alan Kulwicki, on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons.
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"... the lead is now 6.9 seconds. In fact it's just under 7 seconds."

- Murray Walker

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"Racing is a matter of spirit not strength."

- Janet Guthrie

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"Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down."

- Dave Barry

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"If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari."

- Gilles Villeneuve

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"And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself."

- Murray Walker

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“If I died right now, my life would be complete.”

- Tony Stewart, after winning the Allstate 400.

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"There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher."

- Murray Walker

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"With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is."

- Murray Walker

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

- Earnest Hemingway

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"To finish first, you must first finish."

- Rick Mears

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"Nobody remembers who finished second but the guy who finished second."

- Bobby Unser

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"Aerodynamics is for those who cannot manufacture good engines"

- Enzo Ferrari

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“You're not a racing driver, you're a f***ing idiot!”

- Ayrton Senna yelling at Jordan’s Eddie Irvine after the 1993 Japanese Grand Prix
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“I love this kind of racing, (but) these guys sure change their personalities in race mode. They’re like Doberman pinschers with a hand grenade in their mouths.”

- road racer Boris Said speaking of NEXTEL Cup drivers.


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“If you don't cheat, you look like an idiot; if you cheat and don't get caught, you look like a hero; if you cheat and get caught, you look like a dope. Put me where I belong.”

- Darrell Waltrip

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"The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses."

- Mario Andretti

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"When I started racing my father told me, 'Cristiano, nobody has three balls but some people have two very good ones."'

- Cristiano Da Matta

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"If you think the last four words of the national anthem are 'Gentlemen, start your engines,' you might be a redneck."

- Jeff Foxworthy


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"I closed my eyes, held my breath and then everything went black."

- Richard Petty - (About his 1988 Daytona accident)

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"The winner ain't the one with the fastest car, it's the one who refuses to lose."

- Dale Earnhardt


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"I make jokes about the fact that as a neuro-surgeon I shouldn't be required at a motor race because the drivers don't have any brains.... otherwise they wouldn't race."

- Syd Watkins - Formula One Chief Medical Officer


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"Dear Lord baby Jesus, we thank you so much for this bountiful harvest of Dominos, KFC and the always delicious Taco Bell. I just want to take time to say thank you for my family. My two sons, Walker and Texas Ranger, or TR as we call him. And of course my red hot smokin' wife, Carley, who is a stone cold fox."

- Ricky Bobby saying grace in "Talladega Nights"

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"I feel like it is something that SCCA has loaned NASCAR and I feel like we should give it back to them."


- Tony Stewart, speaking about the Car of Tomorrow.


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"They told me if I saw a red flag to stop, They didn't say anything about the checkered flag. I wondered where all the cars were and then as I was all along on the track, I noticed them all in the pits. They finally threw the red flag and I pulled in. I had finished third."

- Lousie Smith

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"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, NASCAR legend, and one time whiskey runner.

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"Oh, what a basket of junk," it drives like a station wagon, an old station wagon, like an old Oldsmobile station wagon, green with wood panel trim on the sides."

- Tony Stewart Speaking of the Car of Tomorrow

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"If I find out that that caution was for the show, I'll choke."

- Mark Martin After a late race "debris caution" cost him the 2004 AMS win.

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“I pity the fool who don't think NASCAR is a sport!”

- Mr.T on NASCAR

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"The competition, of course, is No. 1. Dale Earnhardt Jr., we have to remember, is Dale Earnhardt Jr. He could sell a chocolate popsicle to a woman in a white dress. It's easy. ... Kyle Busch, he wouldn't be able to sell a favorite candy bar to a kid, I guess."

- Kyle Busch, on whether marketing and sponsor demographics play a role in his search for a new team.