#racing

My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because I was always daydreaming about racing. I never thought for a moment about doing anything else. There was no guarantee that I'd make a career in it but I never had any plan B. ↗

— Jenson Button

#always #any #anything #appalling #because

The only time I think about life beyond F1 is when I contemplate becoming a dad. But there's no way that's going to happen while I'm still racing. To be successful in F1 you need to be very selfish in lots of ways and you're away from home for long periods. That's not the kind of father I want to be. ↗

— Jenson Button

#away #becoming #beyond #contemplate #dad

When it comes to my racing career I'm very driven and very selfish. People who are around me at races will know that I'm a different person here than in my personal life. I completely blank people at races. I need to be focused. I'm rude. ↗

— Jenson Button

#blank #career #comes #completely #different

The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#horse #horse racing #horses #i #interested

For me to train and get ready for racing, I can't just sit in the gym all the time and that's the way it is. Responsibility starts and stops with me. My main gig is grand prix driving, that's what I do and I need to keep that in the forefront of my mind. ↗

— Mark Webber

#forefront #get #gig #grand #grand prix

You know, when my dad was a racing fan in Australia he would follow Jack Brabham and sometimes only hear if he won two days after a race - when the result finally appeared in his newspaper. These days I can tweet something and it's all over the world in seconds. ↗

— Mark Webber

#appeared #australia #dad #days #fan

My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack. ↗

— Bode Miller

#being #found #fun #got #grandfather

I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#away #cars #children #crayons #drawing

We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do. ↗

— Sean William Scott

#best #drifting #driver #ever #guy

But to personally satisfy my own adrenalin needs, I've been racing cars a little bit, which has been fun. ↗

— Picabo Street

#adrenalin #been #bit #cars #fun