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Racing Automobile Driver Inspirational Quotes (1693)

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I liked being in the Marines. They gave me discipline I could live with. By the time I got out, I was able to cope with things on a more realistic level.
Steve McQueen
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Reality doesn't have any preconceived ideas. You've got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette. You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You've got to do things and not show them.
James Dean
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When I was a kid, I would watch the grands prix. Everyone dreamt of becoming a race driver, while I only started thinking about it when I was 18 or 19. Only at that age did I seriously start thinking about this job. Before then, I would change ideas from one second to the next.
Kimi Raikkonen
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The person is being confrontational.
Steve McQueen
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But really - look at the span of my career, and it's something people dream about. And to be spared major injury: I had some moments along the way, but being able to retire on my own terms after having driven during those decades when safety conditions were more precarious than today - am I lucky, or  what?
Mario Andretti
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Like everyone else, I don't want it to get too far away from the racing because as time progresses, we're trying to get new fans and still keep the old fans and we've still got to have the racing.
Richard Petty
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When the idea came up, (Newman's Own) I said, Are you crazy? Stick my face on the label of salad dressing? And then, of course, we got the whole idea of exploitation and how circular it is. Why not, really, go to the fullest length, and the silliest length, in exploiting yourself and turn the proceeds back to the community?
Paul Newman
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I want people to do what they want to do because when they feel comfortable it seems to translate better on screen. It is when you put people in a straitjacket that it doesn't seem to translate very well at all. The individuals I work with are usually people I know.
Steve McQueen
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Perseverance: Try and try again until the goal is achieved. Never give up.
Rick Hendrick
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It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not.
Jean-Louis Trintignant
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I really don't like to act. At the beginning, back in '51, I had to force myself to stick with it. I was real uncomfortable, real uncomfortable.
Steve McQueen
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I don't like gossip stories. Facts are okay. But when gossips begin making items, that's something else again.
Paul Newman
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The big advantage to playing the Venetian in Las Vegas - where it's a beautiful theater - is that unlike other places, even many other nice venues, I can do a set and lighting cues, I can put on a real show. I can dress up, wear a tux.
Tim Allen
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Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.
Henry Ford
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The best thing you can give yourselves...is the gift of possibility. And the best thing you can give each other is the pledge to go on protecting that gift in each other as long as you live.
Paul Newman
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The competition is a big part of it [racing] - the passion you have for the sport and the knowledge you have. You're not just going to wake up one day and say, think I'll do something different. This is what I've done my whole life. My competitive nature and my passion for the sport, those are the things that keep you wanting to do better.
Bobby Labonte
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I like to encourage people to give locally. It's easy to find and call a local no-kill shelter and see what specific things they need, and believe me, all of them are always in need of something.
Andy Lally
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Nobody is born with a steering wheel or a gear shift in his hand. It's something you choose to do or you don't.
Mario Andretti
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I had never stopped thinking about the ideal car… All I had to do was construct a plant to build it.
Ferruccio Lamborghini
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I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.
Sebastian Vettel
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I had no natural gift to be anything - not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a painter of garden porches - not anything. So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.
Paul Newman
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For me to win at New Hampshire, first of all, is more than a stretch and more than a dream. This is probably one of my worst places.
Matt Kenseth
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Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.
Henry Ford
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It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?
Henry Ford
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