Sterling Marlin Quotes

It's like when people talk about driving F1 cars in the rain. I have absolutely no problem with it.

I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn't my No. 1 priority.

I'll give you a list of a hundred ways that I'm more likely to be injured than belting around a race track with people who know what they're doing. It's not a place where I feel I'm in unnecessary danger.

I feel comfortable around every driver out there and each driver is in charge of their own car, but you feel very secure racing the competition out there.

If I weren't skateboarding, I'd love to race cars. I like anything that's fast and active.

I loved the speed of go-karting, but didn't have a lot of natural talent. The first time I went out on the track I found it scary; other karts were flying past and bumping into me.

I'm not a girl racer, I save my speed for the race track.

This is what I have always done in my life, just racing and driving cars and go-karts fast.

I can't imagine voluntarily standing beside an F1 track in the rain, watching motorised wedges plastered in corporate decals zooming past at 500mph.

I will continue to get behind the wheel of a racing car as long as I am able. But that could all end tomorrow.

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

If you don't come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you're not trying hard enough

I was not interested at all in Formula One when I left; I was very busy with my airline. But slowly I started missing the adrenaline rush and the driving of such fantastic cars at the limit. In reality this urge never disappears when you're a top driver, because I think we're a different breed of people, we need to take chances, we need to push ourselves to the limit all the time, that sort of thing. It stays with you, although you can kill it by losing motivation or other things in your life, but it never leaves you forever.

When I first climbed into a go-kart, aged 13, I thought to myself: 'This is what I want to do with my life, and I want to drive F1.'

This is motor racing. We go at very high speeds, and tires have always been deflating or exploding. It is just part of the sport.

I told Monster the other day, I'm a racer's racer. This is what I truly love to do.

I dreamed to be able to have these opportunities as a young kid. I've had the opportunity to run the best cars in the world.

We are much more than just drivers who drive a race car.

We know motorsport is dangerous, but it does not make we want to stop, or make Max stop.

When I decided to see what Nascar was all about in 2005, it was an intellectual project, the same reason I went to the shooting range on West 20th Street and tried shooting a rifle at paper targets. I was addicted to both things instantly.

There's obviously a lot of drivers that are in F1 because they're one of the best drivers out there, so I can learn from everyone.

I'd love to be a NASCAR driver because they're, like, in their forties and fifties.

I was always fascinated by speed... My father was always an enthusiast and once I found a passion in racing, I had something in common with him, so from my childhood onwards we spent a lot of time going to karting tracks and racing in the various categories.

I don't feel 50. I'm still ambitious, and I've only just got my licence to race sports cars. I race for an Aston Martin team called Beechdean, and it's a huge challenge.

I am so competitive I cannot imagine myself without a racing car.