Julia Mancuso Quotes

When you walk the track and you see a corner and realise you were going round it at 160mph, you wonder who could be so stupid to take a corner at that speed. But in the car, you don't even think about that.

When I think of the pace that I drove my first race, everything was happening a million miles an hour. Now when I get in the car everything happens so much slower.

The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.

Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.

Work. Don't Think. Relax.

It's real easy to sit on your couch and point fingers and say, 'So-and-so did something wrong...'. But until you are out there in these cars at these speeds and seeing all the near-misses and what is really going on, it is not worth forming an opinion.

Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.

Speed is a part of me. I think I was born with that, and nowadays a fast player, I need a fast car, too.

He [Wladimir Klitschko] likes silence when he fights because it gives him time and room to think. He doesn't like things to get chaotic or crazy.

Anybody else think that was weird?” Shane asked as they got into the car. Eve sent him an exasperated glance; the three of them were, of course, in the backseat. Amelie had the front, with Michael. “Ya think? In general, or in particular?” “Weird that we got through the entire thing, and I didn’t have to hit anybody.” There was a moment of silence. Michael said, as he started the car, “You’re right, Shane. That is strange.

I like a little chaos. I think that's really true for my inner Buddha. I think I like a little nutsy. Maybe I can't take total peace.

If you are a straightforward racing driver you should always see your limits. You have to be objective and not come up with any bullshit.

Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.

Another way to look at meditation is to view thinking itself as a waterfall, a cascading of thought. In cultivating mindfulness, we are going beyond or behind our thinking, much the way you might find a vantage point in a cave or depression in the rock behind a waterfall. We still see and hear the water, but we are out of the torrent.

It would be quite good to be a Formula 1 racecar driver.

One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible.

Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better.

I think people can find a breath and listen sometimes.

I wish Michael Schumacher would come try NASCAR. That'd be cool. With everything he's done and how professional he's remained through it all, I think he's an awesome role model as far as work ethic and tenacity. He just seems like he knows how to get it done.

Chanting doesn't stop you from being creative or productive. It actually helps you concentrate. I think this would make a great sketch for television: imagine all the workers on the Ford assembly line in Detroit, all of them chanting Hare Krishna Hare Krishna while bolting on the wheels. Now that would be wonderful. It might help out the auto industry, and probably there would be more decent cars too.

In racing there are always things you can learn, every single day. There is always space for improvement, and I think that applies to everything in life.

One of the things I like most of all is being in my study, in my barn, with absolutely no sound anywhere thinking about something. It's extremely important to me.

I meditate whenever I can. I can be in the back seat of a car or in between appointments.

I think there's too much mult-tasking going on. I think people need to quiet down and focus and be still more.

Stop thinking, and end your problems.