I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.
Bill Walton
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I never had any financial support or sponsors, and so I always had to, at every level, prove myself the hard way. I was five years in Japan before I got my debut at Le Mans. And I think this is a humble way to get through as a racing driver.
Tom Kristensen
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I spent two years working on building sites, working on the railways as a guard and in a racing stable, exercising racehorses. I learnt to build relationships. The experience of not being stuck in some middle-class bubble taught me things that being at university hadn't.
Nick Davies
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I've driven for A. J. Foyt, now the Andrettis, and my NASCAR team is Richard Childress Racing, which is one of the greats in that sport.
Robby Gordon
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I would rather have racing without computers. The human side is forgotten, and instead of talking over what's happening and just trusting the feel of the driver, the data becomes almost more important.
Jacques Villeneuve
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I've been around racing a fairly long time, but when it comes to the important issues, I'm happy to let others make the big decisions.
Mats Sundin
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The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.
Frank Shorter
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Going to car racing school was phenomenal.
Michelle Rodriguez
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I started racing BMX when I was five years old. I followed in my brother's footsteps, and I was a little tomboy. When I came into the sport, there wasn't many women. I raced with the boys; I looked up to the boys, and all my mentors were boys.
Caroline Buchanan
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I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.
Lisi Harrison
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Horse racing is waning in popularity.
Elayne Boosler
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New nemeses keep racing fresh, but I also find challenge in going longer, with only the distance as foe. I run my first 50-mile race, journey across the Grand Canyon and back, circumnavigate Mount St. Helens.
Don Kardong
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We didn't have rest days or weekends because we had to get ready as fast as possible, so we could beat the Americans, who were also racing to send a woman into space.
Valentina Tereshkova
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Before I was an actor I was an apprentice jockey, and now I'm out there racing against boys, sort of the spokesperson for people over 50 that they can do it.
Davy Jones
PeopleRacingNowActorOverOut
Capsizes kind of go hand in hand with 49er racing. I've had four to five capsizes in races and still won the event. It's just the nature of this type of sailing.
Nathan Outteridge
NatureRacingGoKindHandSailing
I wanted to put a really good kids' racing bike out there for kids under 14: 10-year-olds, eight-year-olds, right down to balance bikes for kids.
Bradley Wiggins
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I can say I'm a little scared of racing. It brings back memories, of course. But it's nothing I can't handle.
J. R. Celski
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One of my greatest pleasures in motor racing is qualifying. You have loads of freedom from pushing a lap the whole way. I've always been very good in qualifying in the past; everything I've done, I've got pole positions.
Bruno Senna
GoodFreedomPastRacingYouDone
I grew up in the upper class, for sure. My family was kind of about that whole parties-and-horse racing thing. I can understand it's fun for some. I never enjoyed it.
Cara Delevingne
FamilyFunRacingI CanUnderstand
I don't do much driving - about 5,000-6,000 miles a year. And most of that is to the airport and to the racing circuits.
Allan McNish
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A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
A. J. P. Taylor
RacingAccuracyClientsLevelWell
I like movies that are scary, but I don't want them to be dirt dumb. I want a movie that gets my blood racing, makes me laugh, but also gives me something to think about, with maybe a little sexy thrown in. Hollywood doesn't make movies like that.
Penn Jillette
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Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
Damon Hill
WinterActionRacingEnoughYou
The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous.
Sebastian Vettel
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