Race Quotes

I would have probably stolen cars – it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.

I come from an ordinary family – my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker – and we’ve always loved racing together.

When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good. There have been times when I have been flat-out to finish sixth, but you can’t see that from the outside.

Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.

I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.

Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.

Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

I was not in the race to become a chief minister. I had never thought about it.

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

That primary quality of being which knows itself, its passions, only against an otherness that has to be dehumanized. I grew up in white silence that was utterly obsessional. Race was the theme whatever the topic.