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I've been collecting these for awhile:

"It is better to enter a corner slow, and come out fast, than to enter a corner fast, and come out dead." --Sir Stirling Moss

"If you can leave black marks on a straight from the time you exit a corner till the time you brake for the next turn, then you have enough horsepower." --Mark Donohue

"Racing is life......anything before or after is just waiting" --Michael Delaney (Steve McQueen's character in "Le Mans", 1970)

"There is no terrible way to win...... there is only winning." --Jean-Pierre Sarti (Yves Montand's character in "Grand Prix", 1967)

"Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports ... all others are games." -- Ernest Hemingway

"Speed costs money. How fast do you want to go?" -- Teddy Mayer

"If you can't be fast, be pretty. If you can't be
pretty, be loud." -- Dennis Grant

"You can live in your car, but you can't race your house" -bumpersticker wisdom

"When the green flag drops, the I.Q's go to single digits." -- Lee Chewey

"The driver who keeps the front tires the straightest will win." -- Anonymous

"I spent most of my money on fast cars and fast women, the rest of it I just wasted".
Unknown

"If you are totally under control you're going too slow." -- Parnelli Jones

"It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance." --Jackie Stewart

Ruth Levy, when asked if she ran out of brakes causing a near fatal accident (hers). "No, I ran out of brains."

"Straights are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers." --unknown

"Racing makes heroin addiction seem like a vague wish for something salty." -- Peter Egan

"Aerodynamics are for people who can't build motors." --Enzo Ferrari

"I am an artist; the track is my canvas, and the car is my brush." - Graham Hill

"But in a way, fear is a big part of racing, because if there was nothing to be frightened of, and no limit, any fool could get into a motor car and racing would not exist as a sport." -- Jim Clark

"There is a fine line between a hobby and a mental illness." - Dave Barry

"If you want to make a small fortune racing,
start with a large one. "
-Unknown

"The only reason they put a Rear View Mirror in a Porsche is so that you can see where you are going AFTER you make a mistake."
-Rick Knoop

"Coming in second is like wetting yourself in black pants; it warms you up but nobody notices."--anon

And the classic, where Froilan Gonzalez is looking at the tire of a modern (for 1972!) Indy car: "I can remember when the drivers were fat and the tires were skinny!"

and finally:

"Driving a racecar is like sitting in a big, loud, smelly, smokey tin box during an earthquake, tearing up $100 bills." --me

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