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The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die.
Sep 24, 2025
The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit
In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.
The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.
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.
Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.
It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.
No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences. My times become slower and slower, but the experience of the race is unchanged: each race a drama, each race a challenge, each race stretching me in one way or another, and each race telling me more about myself and others.
Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it's all about.
Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.
The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses.
Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.
Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.
It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.
Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than others.
Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.
To finish first, you must first finish.
To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster.
The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose.
What's behind you doesn't matter.
I run to see who has the most guts.
Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'.
My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.
Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.
I don't know driving in another way which isn't risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other's.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble.
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines.
Just put one foot in front of the other.
Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
When you put yourself on the line in a race and expose yourself to the unknown, you learn things about yourself that are very exciting.
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