Car Quotes...

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* Aerodynamics are for people who cannot build engines. (Enzo Ferrari)

* All I had to do is keep turning left! (George Robson - Winner of the 1946 Indy 500)

* Anyone can drive a fast car, few can drive a car fast.

* Auto racing, bull fighting, & mountain climbing are the only real sports … all the others are games. (Jim Dietz)

* Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls. (Stirling Moss)

* The cost of racing hasn't increased in 30 years. Back then, it took everything you had … it still does.

* Fast cars drag race, fast drivers road race.

* Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death. (Hunter Thompson)

* Friends don't let friends apex early.

* HP has this tendency to break things. If you're not breaking anything you're not going fast enough.

* I always ask God for blessings of protection on that person in the car, for blessings of protection on the crew as they're attending to the car on pit road. And I always ask for peace of mind for the wife. (Dale Beaver – NA$CAR chaplain)

* I don't know driving in another way which isn't risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than others. (Ayrton Senna)

* I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

* I feel safe when I'm on the race track, I really do. I know that I'm surrounded by the best drivers in the world. That's something you can't say when you're driving down the interstate. (Sterling Marlin)

* I feel safer on a racetrack than I do on Houston's freeways. (A.J. Foyt)

* I live my life a ¼ mile at a time.

* I was doing fine until about mid-corner when I ran out of talent.

* If I had all the money I'd spent on cars, I'd spend it all on cars.

* If you can't run w/the big dogs, stay on the porch

* If you're going to lead, then lead. If you're going to follow, get the hell out of my way!

* In the old days drivers were fat & tires were skinny.

* It has been said that motor racing shares in common w/sex the distinction of being one of the most popular, most maligned & least understood of human activities.

* It is amazing how many drivers, even at the F1 level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down. (Mario Andretti)

* It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance. (Jackie Stewart)

* It's basically the same, just darker. (Alan Kulwicki on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons)

* Life may begin at 30, but it doesn't get real interesting until about 150.

* Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly.

* Never run out of real estate, traction & ideas at the same time.

* The # of laps remaining is always 1 more than the amount of fuel left in the car.

* The # of times you get hit in a pileup is directly proportional to the # of times you said "I think it will go OK today".

* The older I get, the faster I was.

* On the other side of fear there is freedom!

* Once you've raced, you never forget it … & you never get over it. (Richard Childress)

* Oversteer is when your arse hits the wall! Understeer is when your face hits the wall!

* Oversteer scares passengers. Understeer scares drivers.

* A part never breaks during a test session, only during a race. And the part you need will be the one you left at the shop.

* The price for men in motion is the occasional collision. (Carroll Smith)

* Race car drivers love the fast lane.

* Race cars are neither beautiful nor ugly. They become beautiful when they win. (Enzo Ferrari)

* Race car drivers love life in the fast lane.

* Racing is living, everything else is just waiting.

* Racing is the process of turning money into noise.

* Racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph. (Peter Dunne)

* 2nd place is the 1st loser. (Dennis Anderson)

* The shortest way between 2 points is a straight line. What's the fun in that?

* Straights are for fast cars. Turns are for fast drivers.

* A 10-car pileup never happens behind you!

* There's no secret. You just press the accelerator to the floor & steer left. (Bill Vukovich)

* To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster. (Stirling Moss)

* To finish 1st, 1st you have to finish

* What sets these - & all - racers apart from less daredevilish mortals is their complete lack of fear & their joy of doing something on the edge. They love to speed because it is dangerous. (Peter Golenback)

* What's behind you doesn't matter. (Enzo Ferrari)

* When I look fast, I'm not smooth & I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth & going fast. (Alain Prost)

* When you win a race, your on top that day. So take it for what it’s worth, have a good time & party, cause the next day when you get out of bed, the meter goes back to zero again. (Bobby Allison)

* Winners win races. Champions make it look easy.

* Wrecks are going to happen in this business, that's just a risk of the sport. If you can't keep from worrying about it, then you're in the wrong line of work. (Coo Coo Marlin)

* You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood. (Ayrton Senna)

* You win some, you lose some, you wreck some. (Dale Earnhardt)

[Oiluj]

What about the "rippoff" quote from the first cannonball run movie by the italian driver, stated as he rips off the rear view mirror:

"What isa behind me is not ina fronta me, what isa behind me isa not important!"

Kind of like the driving version of the movie "Airplane" when it comes to quotes.

[Jeff G 78]

That was Raoul Julia in Gumball Rally. The quote was (without accent) "The first rule in Italian driving - What's behind you is not important". It very well could have been an Enzo quote he was referring to.

[Oiluj]

Jeff,

Perhaps what I saw was a different version of the movie. The guy I'm quoting was definetely not Raul Julia, (though I bet he great in that role!).

[Oiluj]

I stand corrected.

However, later in the movie he says "Whats behind me is not in front of me". I had combined the quotes...

"You know how often my wife tried to get me to get rid of this car? Well that's German machinery for you. The car outlasted her."

[Jeff G 78]

Julio, check out the trailer. The quote is around 1:20 in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y-8Cq7wib8

[Oiluj]

Jeff,

Yep, that's the site I first site went to after getting your response. Then called a buddy who has the movie and he called me back with the second quote.

What can I say, getting old sucks... You start combining movie quotes and even mixing up movies for that matter!

"Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit sniff'n glue"

[MikeW]

I agree, Gumball Rally. I can pretty much give you all the quotes from the first Cannonball Run - the second movie was horrible. Actually, the first was pretty bad as well from the critics standpoint but I loved the cars and the stars. Besides Burt and Dom and Farrah there was Dean Martin/Sammy Davis Jr, Mel Tillis/Terry Bradshaw, Roger Moore, Jamie Farr, Peter Fonda, and, surprisingly the first serious US movie for an unknown from Hong Kong named Jackie Chan.

Here's the opening scene: