Anyone who thinks Auto racing is boring hasn’t seen a car is going 150 miles per hour upside down

Pat Templeton

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Janet Guthrie

Everything was fine until I left and then I ran out of talent!

Don Garlits after a red light in the final

It's basically the same, just darker.

Alan Kulwicki, on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons.

Win some, lose some, and wreck some.

Dale Earnhardt Sr.

Dear Lord baby Jesus, we thank you so much for this bountiful harvest of Dominos, KFC and the always delicious Taco Bell. I just want to take time to say thank you for my family. My two sons, Walker and Texas Ranger, or TR as we call him. And of course my red hot smokin' wife, Carley, who is a stone cold fox.

Ricky Bobby saying grace in "Talladega Nights"

In what other sport do you get a 15-second break every hour?

Dale Earnhardt Sr. on the "drivers aren't athletes"- debate.

I make jokes about the fact that as a neuro-surgeon I shouldn't be required at a motor race because the drivers don't have any brains... otherwise they wouldn't race.

Syd Watkins - Formula One Chief Medical Officer

The winner ain't the one with the fastest car, it's the one who refuses to lose.

Dale Earnhardt

We drove for the sheer fun of driving because there wasn't that much money to be made.

Richard Petty

If you think the last four words of the national anthem are 'Gentlemen, start your engines', you might be a redneck.

Jeff Foxworthy

When I started racing my father told me, nobody has three balls but some people have two very good ones.

Cristiano Da Matta

If you don't cheat, you look like an idiot; if you cheat and don't get caught, you look like a hero; if you cheat and get caught, you look like a dope. Put me where I belong.

Darrell Waltrip

You've started a lot of engines.

Chris Myers, television host for FOX and FX NASCAR broadcasts, to All-Star Chanllenge Grand Marshall Pamela Anderson

I simply love racing, all kinds of racing, all it has to have is a motor in it and I get all excited...

Anonymous

Aerodynamics is for those who cannot manufacture good engines

Enzo Ferrari

I’ve had a jackass driving for me, and now I am rid of him.

Junior Johnson commenting on Darrell Waltrip's switch to Hendricks after the '86 season

If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.

Gilles Villeneuve

It don't mean #+*% right now... Daddy's won here 10 times.

Dale Earnhardt Jr.

If I died right now, my life would be complete.

Tony Stewart, after winning the Allstate 400 at Indianapolis

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

Earnest Hemingway

I'd like to say I'm ready to kick ass and show the guys how it's done. But I'm not here to prove anything about being a woman. I'm here to drive a race car and try to win a race.

Lyn St. James

I feel safer on a racetrack than I do on Houston's freeways.

A.J. Foyt

To finish first, you must first finish.

Rick Mears

Nobody remembers who finished second but the guy who finished second.

Bobby Unser

I know that son-of-a-bitch is cheatin! Cause, I'm cheatin and he beat me!

Unknown from long ago

When building engines I have found the piston to ground clearence to be ever so critical.

Geri Tarvin

After a crash, an old time northeast modified racer when asked if the steering wheel broke off on his ill handling race car, since it came flying out the window just before impact. His reply was, "Nope it wasn't helping me one bit and I didn't want to loose any teeth on it when it drove into the wall, so I got rid of it."

At Lions one night, I was on a strong pass and about half track I saw a blower belt go past me, then about 3/4 down track, I saw another blower belt go by. Then as I pulled off the track I noticed I didn't have any front tires either

Walt Stevens, Retired Top Fuel driver

We worked 80 hour weeks for 30 years to keep from having to get a real job.

"T.C". Tom Lemon

You know, when Arnold Palmer came on TV with an old tractor and told me to buy Pennzoil, I bought that, and when Dale Jarrett advertises UPS, I can go along with that, too. But I don’t think having an 18-year-old, somebody who’s probably gotten five packages in his life and they were all ‘Girls Gone Wild’ videos, tell me what delivery service I should use would have much effect on me.

Kyle Petty

That’s baloney, man. That’s what’s wrong with America now. Every time somebody screws up, we tell them it’s all right. You don’t pay your bills? You can file bankruptcy. You kill somebody? Spend 10 years in jail, and we’ll let you out. That’s what’s wrong with society now, man. If you do the crime, do the time. If you had the guts to do it, have the guts to take your punishment.

Crew Chief Michael McSwain, telling the Richmond Times-Dispatch he was tired of hearing competitors whining after being caught cheating

I’m about 15 pounds heavier. I’ve got highlights in my hair.

Tony Stewart on what’s changed since his 2002 championship

Alcohol is for drinking, gas is for cleaning parts, and nitro is for racing!

Original author unknown, used by Gene Adams and Don Garlits among others

When I raced a car last it was at a time when sex was safe and racing was dangerous. Now, it’s the other way round.

Hans Stuck

Not bad for a coupe....

Don Garlits after watching a Funny Car in qualifying slightly quicker and faster than he had just run

Years ago, you used to get out and fight and run around and chase each other with a jackhammer and stuff like that. Those were the good ol' days

Dale Earnhardt Jr. on a "Daily Show" appearance

She particularly loved racing with and beating her brothers

Tim Flock about his sister, Ethel Mobley Flock

Sometimes it seemed like the more you drove the less money you had. I remember one time Buck Baker and Lee Petty and I had to put our money together just to split a hot dog and a Coke.

Lousie Smith

"Be born rich."

Janet Guthrie's advice on succeeding in racing

They told me if I saw a red flag to stop, They didn't say anything about the checkered flag. I wondered where all the cars were and then as I was all along on the track, I noticed them all in the pits. They finally threw the red flag and I pulled in. I had finished third.

Lousie Smith

Never let the truth stand in the way of a good story

Bones Carroll on the fine art of telling a story

If I have to, I'll buy every piece of property around the track to make sure it stays open

Tony Stewart in response to those around Eldora that complain about the noise and dust

Dad, why did you redlight?, Because the light was too slow.

Mike Dunn question to his father, Big Jim Dunn in 'Funny Car Summer' movie

I closed my eyes, held my breath and then everything went black

Richard Petty - (About his 1988 Daytona accident)