Drivers Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Drivers Quotes from famous persons: Paul Tonko, Tom Cotton, Max Verstappen, Jacques Villeneuve, Shaquille O’Neal. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Drivers Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

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We cannot get serious about helping the private sector

Paul Tonko
2
Most of who‘s left in the administration now are all these yes men and fanboys who were van drivers or press flacks for Barack Obama in Iowa and New Hampshire in 2008.
3
I want to rely on my gut feeling. Isn’t that what made great race drivers in the end?
4
Conserving fuel is fine, and it was great in the past. The problem is that the drivers don’t have to do it. It’s all done electronically. You sit there, and it saves fuel for you, and that defeats the purpose.
5
I love race car drivers, I love gymnastics, I love UFC, I love police officers, I love firefighters. I just try to give them the same enjoyment they give me.
6
When people pick the best drivers of all time, nobody ever picks Lee Trevino. But when he played, like at Tanglewood at the ’74 PGA, he missed one fairway in 72 holes.
7
I don’t aspire to be like other drivers – I aspire to be unique in my own way.
8
People need to remember that I am the first black driver in F1, so I am obviously going to be different to past drivers.
9
With cab drivers, I always say I’m from Brazil. I don’t say I’m from Israel. It’s happened more than once that someone is blaming me for the government’s policy. And I say, ‘Listen, I live here. I’m a musician. I don’t call the shots.’
10
It takes more than driving to become an IndyCar driver. Gone are the days when drivers show up Friday morning and go home Sunday night. We’re all integral to our partnerships, commercially, motorsports. We’re as much champions in the boardroom as we are on the racetrack.
11
You tend to think that there is a big gap between F1 and everything else. F1 is where all the fantastic drivers are, so you just don’t know how good you are until you get there.
Jean Alesi
12
What we expect from our drivers, as team mates, is that they show respect for each other and allow one another enough room on the race track.
13
Tattooed across NASCAR drivers’ jumpsuits and over every square inch of their cars are the logos of the companies sponsoring the teams, underwriting the costs, paying their salaries. Everyone can see who the drivers represent and who is footing the bill.
14
Lots of other drivers like cycling, but I’m not so keen. I have some really cool bikes, but I’m just not in love with it like Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso.
15
As drivers desert the city I find myself clinging more and more to my father‘s belief that a man without a car is not really a man.
16
I love public transportation! Who wants to sit in a car and be angry at other drivers for eight hours? I’d rather sit on a bus or train and read a book.
17
I don’t think that American drivers going to NASCAR are taking the easy way out because as I said, the racing is amazing; it’s just that it’s easier to adapt to what you grow up with. American drivers grow up with NASCAR, they know NASCAR, and that’s where they want to go.
18
I’m very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.
19
The data does not support that high-income tax cuts are the main drivers of growth, so I don’t think that uncertainty over what the tax rate will be for someone that makes a million dollars a year has that big an impact on the economic growth rate in the country.
20
Pretty much all the drivers I get on with, at least to say ‘Hi’ and have a conversation. But when the helmet‘s on, you don’t care who it is. You have no sympathy: someone blows an engine in front of you, if it means you gain a position, then you’re smiling.
21
Generally speaking, rural drivers are a much better behaved species than city drivers. I’m not sure whether they’re intrinsically this way, or there are just fewer opportunities for them to do behave badly. You can’t go around running red lights if there aren’t any red lights to run.
22
All of our fans are passionate and each driver that they want to cheer for is really respectful of all the other drivers – it’s a really cool sport to be around.
23
There’s no doubt, doing what we do, the schedule that we have and the danger that we incur every single week, NASCAR drivers should be making NBA, NFL money.
24
Though we work with rental agencies, a large part of our fleet comprises individual drivers.
25
I think it is really important to have two drivers who want to push the team in the right direction rather than fighting against one another.
26
But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.
Jacky Ickx
27
I was quite emotional when I finished my lap, but had to wait for other drivers to cross the line to hear whether I’d actually done it. It feels very special, but I acknowledge that the old master, Nigel Mansell, took his 14 poles from only 16 races.
28
I’ve met some Evertonians in the street, and they’ve been friendly. I’ve had taxi drivers who have been Everton fans. They’ve been really nice.
29
The drivers are regular people that come from all over the country. I think the sports fans can relate to them.
30
Boilersuits are used by everybody from pilots in the army to racing drivers to people who clean your drains. The one piece overall is what all males secretly desire.
31
I firmly believe that we can protect taxpayer dollars, bus drivers’ jobs, and the safety of our students. We just need a mayor who actually cares about all three.
32
New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures – from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete.
33
F1 is about the best drivers competing against each other for the best teams producing the best cars they can.
34
As a consumer goods company serving billions of consumers every day, Unilever understands the drivers and motivations that create the norms that lie behind people’s behaviour.
35
Formula One was just cool. I loved racing, all types of racing, but from a young age, Formula One was the noise and everything, and that’s what I was drawn to. I already knew when I was younger, the coolest guys are in F1… not that NASCAR drivers aren’t cool, but that was always what I had in my head!
36
It seems to me a lot of drivers have lost their personalities or are not able to express themselves. However, it’s a very commercial market, and manufacturers have a far bigger say than ever before.
37
Truck drivers stop me and say, ‘What is the poem for the day?’ or ‘Give me a poem for my girl.’ I have one on almost every subject.
38
Our highways and our roads are underutilized because of the allowances we have to make for human drivers.
39
Once upon a time, I was morbidly sensitive about the impertinence born of sociology. Taxi drivers would not stop for me after dark; white girls jogged to keep ahead of my shadow thrown at their heels by the amber street lamps. Part of me didn’t blame them, but most of me was hurt.
40
In New York, we tip everyone. We tip doormen, we tip cab drivers, and we tip bartenders at the bar. You’ll get quite an evil eye if you don’t leave a tip at the bar.
41
I would put my money on both my drivers to win if it came down a streetfight.
42
As racing drivers, you always have those moments that it gets a bit heated, but then you start from zero again.
43
The last time I saw Dad alive, he was in the hospital. He was watching ‘Hell Drivers,’ a crummy B-movie about truckers, on TV and reading the ‘Daily Record.’ This seems scarcely believable, but I actually said, ‘Dad, you’ve not got long to go – don’t you think you should be imbibing the culture a bit more?’
44
It will be hard work. It’s always hard work, and hard work from everybody within the team – technical director, mechanics, drivers, engineers – everyone in the team.
David Leslie
45
Major drivers of global unemployment are lack of job creation and skills shortage or mismatch.
46
I believe to have been one of the rare drivers to have returned to Ferrari.
Jacky Ickx
47
Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.
48
My father worked in the Post Office. A lot of double shifts. All his friends were in the same situation – truck drivers, taxi cab drivers, grocery clerks. Blue collar guys punching the clock and working long, hard hours. The thought that sustained them was the one at the center of the American dream.
Gary David Goldberg
49
Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don’t have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the DMV and look around, you’re like, ‘Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.’
50
To drive a semi-truck, a driver needs a commercial driver’s license. While formal training isn’t required, most drivers enroll in a program to help prepare them for the written and practical exams in their states.
51
I fear crazy cyclists just as much as I fear inconsiderate drivers. They are like cultists, dressed up like huge insects in dehumanising uniforms, so sure they are saving the planet that they care little for its inhabitants.
52
Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I’d say, ‘Well, it’s kind of jazz, soul, classical‘ – but that makes no sense to anyone.
53
I probably work harder, putting in a lot of time and effort, than a lot of drivers because all I think about, and all I do, is to do with racing, trying to make myself a better driver.
54
My father was an urchin that lived in Hell’s Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were times that were better and worse, but mostly, by the time we got to L.A., they’d lost whatever they had. And it was a sad time. And both he and I became truck drivers for different companies.
55
I feel very privileged Williams has selected me as one of their race drivers. The team has great heritage and I hope I can help write a good chapter in their history.
Bruno Senna
56
There are no drivers like Formula One drivers. They are engineers, in a way. They are driving manual cars one-handed at 200 miles per hour around streets in Monaco. These cars use the ultimate in technology.
57
I have fans rooting for me, all the other drivers in the midfield have fans rooting for them, and they never get to see that driver fighting for wins. Of course it would be a lot better if you had a broader range of drivers who were in the fight for wins.
58
Sometimes, you know, you – drivers are worried about being misdiagnosed and maybe missing a race when they don’t really have a concussion. But you can never take the risk there. It’s just too dangerous to layer concussions.
59
Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.
60
It turns out that one of the biggest drivers of investors are both successful and non-successful startup founders.
61
Some younger drivers didn’t grow up seeing racing as being dangerous. They break their little finger, and they are surprised. It’s like, ‘Be happy it’s only that.’
62
India‘s growth drivers are actually two growth drivers. One is consumption, which arises out of our demographic advantage. And the other is the investments. Because we need a lot of investment in the country.
63
I’ve played TaylorMade drivers since I was in high school, so it’s a comfortable look for me.
64
Basically, it is always good for a team if both drivers are very quick.
65
I think we all, as drivers, come to the table with a package. It’s either your speed and raw talent, your sponsorship money, your nationality. For me, one of my unique selling points is my gender, without a doubt.
66
You can make the assumption that most human drivers are not out to kill pedestrians. Well, maybe in some parts of Boston they are. But with a person at the wheel who you can see, you behave accordingly. With the robotic car, how do you know what assumption to make?
67
I think I’m drawn to people who dream big, and both films have that. In ‘Street Fight, Cory Booker wants to become Mayor of Newark, and in ‘Racing Dreams,’ three kids want to become NASCAR drivers.
68
I looked at motor racing in America where at the Indy 500 the drivers are told ‘gentlemen start your engines‘ and the crowd go wild because they know the race is about to start. I needed a hook and came up with ‘let’s get ready to rumble.’
69
The telecom industry reaches into every corner of our economies, societies, and private lives, and it is one of the greatest drivers of economic growth and human equality the world has ever seen.
70
It is obvious, our country has failed to provide two basic things which are the two main drivers of immigration, which are the lack of economic opportunity and a lack of security.
71
The guard rails on a highway may restrict some folks from driving the way they want, but those rules mostly end up saving the lives of those other drivers who understand that living in a society means behaving in a commonly beneficial way.
72
You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it’s all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else.
73
I became a real racing nerd – I knew all the drivers and talked about karting all the time. I wanted to have a go, but when I got into a kart the noise scared me. I was also worried that I wouldn’t be able to control the brake with my foot.
74
Contrary to some of the rhetoric we’ve heard, AB5 does not automatically reclassify any ride-share drivers from independent contractors to employees. AB5 does not provide drivers with benefits, nor does it give drivers the right to organize.
75
I don’t think that all the coal miners – or even more realistically, say, the truck drivers whose jobs may be put out by self-driving cars and trucks – they’re all going to go and become web designers and programmers.
76
When drivers are going at their best, trying their hardest, taking chances and doing amazing things, that’s what fans love.
77
There’s obviously a lot of drivers that are in F1 because they’re one of the best drivers out there, so I can learn from everyone.
78
I’d rather have a driver that was like that, that had that passion and that fire in his belly and you can channel that. The sport’s crying out for more drivers like Max Verstappen.
79
We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.
Lane Kirkland
80
I think I’ve explained earlier on in the year that I kind of underestimated how important experience was in this series, especially when you’re up against such good quality drivers.
Dan Wheldon
81
If I’m winning races, it means I’m doing a good job. I’ve put down a marker now, against drivers with a lot more experience of the car than me. This is not going to be a one-off.
Billy Monger
82
I know the British people and they are not passengers – they are drivers.
83
If I wanted to learn how to race a speed car, I’m not going to go and race with Formula One drivers. I’m going to go to a beginner‘s class.
84
I think a lot of people think of NASCAR drivers as living the private life, the luxurious life. But I don’t.
85
In the Eighties, I was everywhere. It was hard, because you didn’t see much of your children. I missed out on that. People make sacrificesdoctors, long-distance lorry drivers – and that was mine. I wasn’t left money, I had to go out and earn it.
86
My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.
A. J. Foyt
87
I have talked to stunt drivers all my life, 32 years of talking to stunt drivers. There’s a craziness to them.
88
I wouldn’t say I am the most popular driver among the drivers, but I don’t need to be. What matters to me is the results and what the stewards say.
89
I won‘t be cycling to work any time soon. It’s too dark when I leave home at 4am, there’s too many speeding drivers and helmet hair wouldn’t look good on air. But I still want to do it.
90
I think what makes things interesting in Formula E, and I really hope it happens with me, is that many drivers are able to win the race. Maybe many drivers can win the championship.
91
There is a handful of drivers and teams that have a shot to win every single week, and there is no reason we can’t be among that group. That’s our goal, and if you’re in that position enough, it will go your way plenty and you’ll get your fair share.
92
Liberal democracies like ours seem, for the most part, to have learned how to avoid meticulously planned mass-casualty plots with the complexity and scale of 9/11. But they don’t know how to keep their citizens safe at night clubs and concerts, in supermarkets, on beachfront promenades, from truck drivers.
93
Let’s make it clear: it’s Ferrari I’m interested in. Drivers, we’ve had a lot, some very good, some great, but drivers come and go, while Ferrari remains.
94
Using Waze, they’re saving time on the road, money on gas, and emissions into the environment – a proposition they really can’t turn down. But more than that, drivers use Waze because they feel they are part of a community, working together to overcome the global headache that is traffic.
Noam Bardin
95
Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
96
Uber has an information advantage, a computational advantage. There’s massive structural advantages to the player who’s smartest about how to deploy cars, where to deploy cars, how to adjust pricing dynamics, how to ensure supply of drivers – the party that understands best the behavior of riders.
97
When two teams skirmish with each other or the two drivers don’t like talking to each other, all you do is go backward. There’s no doubt about it.
98
Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
99
If anything on the car is going to blow up or fall off, you usually see it happen in the 600. But it’s also survival for the drivers because it’s such a long race and it’s usually hot at Charlotte. It’s hard for drivers to feel good for the whole 400 laps.
100
Government pensions are among the largest cost drivers for state and local governments.
101
Venture for America operates in communities that could generally use more innovation: Detroit, New Orleans, Baltimore, and other U.S. cities. So I’m obviously a big believer in innovation and progress as key drivers of economic growth and prosperity.
102
21st-century activism is different perhaps in the sense that the individual can be more present in the process, especially via social media, but the underlying drivers remain the same as desire to change the status quo.
103
At the end of the day, concussions are best dealt with between the drivers and their personal physicians.
104
Software substitution, whether it’s for drivers or waiters or nurses – it’s progressing. Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set.
105
I think that if you are well-accepted by the other drivers and respected it is important.
106
You have to tackle the real drivers of debt – that’s mandatory spending, not discretionary.
107
Unfortunately, we don’t educate drivers enough to be respectful on the road.
108
Autonomous driving provides a scenario where AI can deliver smart tools for assistance in decision-making and planning to human drivers.
109
I have a lot of road rage. Mostly with the rickshaw and cab drivers trying to cut me; it’s the traffic. Grrrr!
110
Drivers’ work is outside the usual course of Uber’s business, which is serving as a technology platform for several different types of digital marketplace.
111
The best way we can encourage people to create companies that create jobs is to celebrate the diverse entrepreneurial stories and the variety of drivers that led these entrepreneurs to sticking their necks out.
112
Trucking-company terminals are places where paperwork gets filled out, driving orders are given, and partners are assigned. They can often be social hubs for drivers, breaking up the monotony and solitude they face on the road.
113
Cities are drivers of growth and wealth, and at the same time, cities are becoming increasingly violent.
114
I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn’t even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.
115
We profile drivers based on their riding behavior, driving behavior to make sure we weed out the bad-performing drivers, which are considered unsafe in terms of their driving profiles.
116
I believe that if we do not prevent Medicare from going bankrupt, it will go bankrupt. And that will be bad for everybody. We have to tackle our debt crisis. We have to tackle the drivers of our debt.
117
We want the ability of the drivers to be the focus, not who has the latest gizmo.
118
One of the key drivers of Ireland‘s future is our balance of trade surplus.
119
I think the people who just stay in line fall into a segment of average drivers and I don’t want to be average. I want to be different; I want to be unique for my driving style and my abilities.
120
People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don’t really need to understand humans so well.
121
Starting a business from scratch and having little money in the bank focuses your mind in a way that running a multibillion-dollar business never does. It brings the key drivers of performance into sharp relief. I promise.
122
These regional series – we need to have them strong to feed drivers to the Truck series. Nothing against ARCA, but NASCAR needs to have their own series be their own streams.
123
One thing I would like to see is a stronger ladder series for up-and-coming American drivers.
Michael Andretti
124
Lyft treats people better than competition. So whether that’s drivers or passengers, that goes into the car experience. That’s why more and more people are choosing Lyft.
125
Competition is one of the most important drivers of innovation because you have to stay in the race. You have to think of something new, and if you don’t, well, of course you should leave the market.
126
We have moved away from basic racing, where you see how the drivers fight with the cars to their physical limits and then make mistakes – or not.
127
As in many cities, Uber has disrupted powerful interests in London, starting with the drivers of black cabs, who trace their lineage to 1634, and their influential Licensed Taxi Drivers Association.
128
The worst drivers are women in people carriers, men in white vans and anyone in a baseball cap. That’s just about everyone.
129
I would like it to be remembered; I would love to be World Champion one day and have my name on the list. That is the real dream – although I am sure it is the dream for pretty much all the Formula 1 drivers.
130
California – with more cars, more drivers and more people – still has less DWI-related deaths than Texas does.
131
If I was to turn around now and say that motorsport should be segregated, then my whole career would have been for nothing. Every result that I have achieved on my own would stand for nothing, if I couldn’t compete against male drivers.
132
The drivers are the stars; the drivers are the heroes.
133
When I think of a rivalry, I think of two drivers who butt heads.
134
I think Formula One is extremely difficult, obviously, and it’s the best drivers in the world so it’s not easy to jump in and be on your top level immediately.
135
We’re absolutely passionate about making sure gamers have the latest and greatest drivers.
136
Unfortunately, our stock is somehow not well understood by the markets. The market compares us with generic companies. We need to look at Biocon as a bellwether stock. A stock that is differentiated, a stock that is focused on R&D, and a very, very strong balance sheet with huge value drivers at the end of it.
137
There is a stigma in our sport that men are the better drivers. People think that, because the men compete in two-man and four-man, they are more versatile and that the women aren’t great drivers.
138
Drivers are not good at having nothing to do.
139
I like to make sure I eat as soon as the drivers meeting is over. Then I like to take at least a 15-minute nap or so before the race starts, just to kind of get refreshed. That’s something I try to do every time.
140
All space projects push the frontiers of technology and are drivers of innovation.
141
I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best one? I don’t think anybody can say they’re the best one because, from one week to the next, you can be on form or off form a little bit.
142
The Sauber F1 Team has put its trust in me for 2015, and it makes me proud, as Sauber is known to be one of the best teams in developing young drivers. It will be a great challenge.
143
Seeing other people is incredibly engaging, and that’s one of the drivers that made us partner with Facebook – social communication. Not social newsfeeds, but actual face-to-face, seeing multiple avatars in a play experience, that’s going to be a very big part of the future in VR.
144
Many of us who have cars have felt some form of extreme anger at other drivers because we feel they have put us in harm‘s way. We might even envision ramming their cars or cutting them off in return, but do we actually do it? No, because the overwhelming majority of us never want to take another human life.
145
Engaged, enthusiastic, and loyal employees are pivotal drivers of growth and health in any organization.
146
The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.
Enzo Ferrari
147
You’re basically competing with the same exact product. Coke and Pepsi are at least in different cans. Lyft and Uber drivers are just swapping out the mustache for the U on the dashboard, depending on which one they’re getting the call on.
148
To drive an F1 car you have to be a little mad. On the morning of a race there’s a mix of excitement and fear. If it’s a wet track, then it’s worse as you’re not in control most of the time, which is the thing all drivers fear the most.
149
We will continue to make a real impact on drivers globally, helping them save time and money while making everyone’s daily commute a bit more efficient and fun.
Noam Bardin
150
Pastor is a driver who doesn’t respect other drivers.
Sergio Perez
151
At Linfox we have zero tolerance. If any alcohol or drugs are found in any drivers’ blood, they are instantly dismissed.
152
Getting enough sleep makes us better family members, friends, lovers, drivers, writers, cooks, and pretty much everything else that is of importance in our lives.
153
I just thank the people who took part in our graduated drivers task force, who came with their thoughts and ideas as to how we can best keep our roads safe, and it has paid off.
154
Usually when I talk with other drivers, it’s about past races, what they did, tips for different tracks, especially others in the Ford family.
155
If there’s 10,000 little boys racing around the world and there’s only 10 girls, best case 100, the numbers are stacked massively against us. If you don’t increase the talent pool of young girls, you’re not going to get the best drivers at the top.
156
I’m a Londoner. Embankment. Big Ben. Cab drivers.
157
Williams has a long history of nurturing young drivers at the start of their F1 careers.
158
Our financial services and insurance cluster is one of Delaware‘s key economic drivers in the state.
Ruth Ann Minner
159
The heart of Ferrari is winning in F1. I don’t want to see our drivers in 7th and 12th place.
160
My target is to win the World Drivers Championship. I want to be the best.
Ralf Schumacher
161
It’s sad that you don’t see drivers being real people.
162
Whereas most technologies tend to automate workers on the periphery doing menial tasks, blockchains automate away the center. Instead of putting the taxi driver out of a job, blockchain puts Uber out of a job and lets the taxi drivers work with the customer directly.
163
Though little known in the U.S., the Dakar is a sports juggernaut in Europe, where France‘s state broadcasting company runs more than 25 hours of coverage, and the leading drivers and riders are accorded the same status we give to Super Bowl quarterbacks.
164
Just competing in the Brazilian GP is a dream for all Brazilian racing drivers. I remember sitting in the grandstands when I was a kid, watching Ayrton Senna, Nelson Piquet and even Rubens Barrichello. After that, to race there in Formula One is a feeling that is hard to explain.
165
It might just be me, but it’s tough when you get drivers that don’t stay where they should be.
Scott Dixon
166
I think fans of the sport have a good understanding now of how fit Formula One drivers need to be.
167
The independence once represented by the car has been replaced by cell phones and social networks, which are now at the forefront of people’s expression of freedom and access. Once a symbol of ‘coming of age,’ many drivers are waiting longer to get their licenses.
168
Growing up I’ve watched Lewis and aspired to have some of his attributes, mainly his speed. His raw pace is probably the best of everyone on the whole grid, so there are bits you want from different drivers.
169
The act of littering annoys me more than anything, particularly drivers who throw stuff out of the car window.
170
Fitness will be a major factor in the first race and I think that will play into the hands of drivers who have been racing recently, rather than people like me who haven‘t raced properly for a decade. I’am not one of the favourites to start with.
171
NASCAR stepped up their safety concepts, and I think the drivers feel NASCAR is doing everything that can be done. So we are a little behind NASCAR in that respect. Someone in NASCAR realized there were certain things that could be done to make it safer. The same thing has to happen in football.
172
I suppose I could admire all these slow Seattle drivers for their safety-mindedness, consideration for others, and peace of mind. Instead, I’m a fury of annoyance.
173
A couple of taxi drivers have asked me if we can survive financially as an independent nation. I say, how come we are more stupid than Denmark or Finland or Sweden? They’ve all got the same amount of people. Are we all going to down tools? Is everybody in Scotland going to stop working?
Eddi Reader
174
Beside the brand-ambassador elements of the modern racing driver, the evolution of the athlete has mandated that as drivers, we are very committed to fitness.
175
Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables – my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course, it paid dividends. Ill-tempered guards at the most notorious border crossings waved him through with cheery smiles. Haughty maitre d’s fawned over him.
Scott Anderson
176
I think I’ve lost that ability to slow things down – that ability drivers have to calculate what’s coming by you at tremendous speed. I used to have it.
177
When we first created the Lyft community, we wanted to make cities feel smaller and more connected by bringing people together through transportation. In 20 months since we launched, we’ve seen drivers and passengers redefine the true meaning of community through Lyft in countless ways.
178
At its core, all authentic growth depends on more customers wanting more of what your company offers. Any other drivers – pricing gimmicks, heroic marketing efforts, forced acquisitions – are ultimately destructive.
179
Anyone can exceed expectations in one way or another and I hope to prove that when I race alongside, not just able-bodied drivers, but the best Touring Car drivers in the UK.
180
I believe that we do our country a disservice when we make it harder for new American immigrants to abide by the rules of the road and obtain drivers licenses.
181
My least favorite thing about New York is probably the traffic. I hate it. The people are such aggressive drivers here, they’re horrible.
182
In our economic structure, the people who work the hardest oftentimes make the least. I know migrant farm workers who do back-breaking labor every day, or Uber drivers and Lyft drivers who drive 10 to 12 hours a day in traffic. You can’t be lazy doing that kind of work.
183
Instead of expecting truck drivers and warehouse workers to rapidly retrain so they can compete with tireless, increasingly capable machines, let’s play to their human strengths and create opportunities for workers as companions and caregivers for our elders, our children, and our special-needs population.
184
Safety is top priority for us, and all our drivers are fully certified; all of them are checked. Their addresses are checked. Backgrounds are checked. To whatever extent the Indian system makes it possible to check.
185
There are no team orders within Red Bull Racing, other than that the drivers should race each other with respect.
186
There is still too much pressure on short-termism in terms of the drivers of success.
187
In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn’t very tight.
Bobby Rahal
188
The Daytona 500 is a career-winning race. It defines careers for drivers, crew members, crew chiefs and race teams. It has that power.
Jimmie Johnson
189
I can hit a lot of drivers, be aggressive, and attack from the fairway.
190
I believe in a Republic of Merit in which water is allowed to find its own level, where voters, like drivers, are tested before being turned loose.
191
The three ordinary things that we often don’t pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.
192
The fact that people are regarding me as the team leader doesn’t change much. At the Sauber F1 team both drivers get the same equipment and treatment.
193
I don’t care what the other drivers think of me. They can say what they want.
194
If you look back at our history, we always tend to see drivers in waves move in one direction so it’s not uncommon to have three, four or five of your top drivers exit for different reasons in a short period of time, two years, whatever it is.
195
That’s a hallmark of NASCAR… We have gotten to where we’ve gotten because we’re able to have the best drivers in the world, the best team owners and then giving them a package that creates the most exciting racing.