Motor Sports Quotes

I always knew about the risks I was taking. Every year, someone you knew was killed racing. You had to ask yourself, do you enjoy driving these cars so much that you're prepared to take that risk?

A crash is part of the game. We've tried to make the cars a lot safer. There's no getting around it though. We're a contact sport.

The track in Abu Dhabi is special; this will be our third Grand Prix there.

We see families making a vacation out of a NASCAR event. The average drive is 200 miles so they're often going to spend a few days with us.

I've never seen a NASCAR race; I've seen an Indianapolis 500 race.

I used to watch MotoGP quite a bit, I liked MotoGP. I had a motorbike before I had a go-kart and before I had a motorbike I had a quad bike but I was too dangerous, and before I did quad biking I did horse riding, so it's been a long journey.

There's still nothing I love more than being in the air. I've always liked speed and things on wheels, going out there and putting it all out there, being on the edge.

My first memory of motor racing - I think it was just attending a go kart race.

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

As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.

People enjoy watching sports at the weekend and watching motor racing and whatever sports, and Formula One is the number one global platform which is competing regularly - not like the Olympic Games or the World Cup - so the macro case was this is something that we should be part of because it's going to grow, and it does.

When I returned to the Touring Car championship, I got the team to create a special brake pedal that I could use with my prosthetic leg.

I grew up in a culture of motorbikes. So I like racing just fine. Quite a lot, actually. That was when I was a boy in Australia. And I never really made the jump to cars after that.

The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.

I've been fortunate enough that in every form of motor sports in which I've competed, we've won.

I have talked to stunt drivers all my life, 32 years of talking to stunt drivers. There's a craziness to them.

You don't win NASCAR races without ability.

So while I was studying, I rode my Trials bike, then I moved to roadracing.

I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.

I wouldn't dream of watching motor racing, cycling, or golf - which aren't truly sports anyway.

I hung out with a lot of the riders to get their attitude and they're all like men. Men among boys. They have a certain calm to them which is really impressive. They go out there and they're racing 80 miles per hour, or jumping 60 foot jumps, I think they get all their adrenaline out. So during the day, they're just quiet, aloof and stoic superheroes kinda, you know what I mean? They're very, very respectful. It's a very family oriented sport. Everybody knows everybody so there's a lot of respect and understanding.

I love racing, I love racing everything really - karts, anything - so I do need to keep doing that. But the focus is on Formula One.

That one was stunt heavy. 'Monster Trucks' was a lot of stunts. I got to do some insane stunts they should've never let me do.

To be a part of TT history is a massive achievement. It is one of, if not the greatest races on two wheels, if not on four.

Some younger drivers didn't grow up seeing racing as being dangerous. They break their little finger, and they are surprised. It's like, 'Be happy it's only that.'