“When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing.”
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“I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in.”
“I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.”
“The GTO is such an important car because it's a racing car and a touring car and that's pretty unusual.”
“In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year.”
“I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.”
“What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.”
“I'm ashamed to say this, but I watched every episode of 'Starsky and Hutch' as a kid. I loved that show, but now I think it's stupid - they'd have a car chase for no reason, then Paul Michael Glaser would shoot the car and it would blow up.”
“Especially in the car ride to and from gym. I find myself spacing out a lot, just visualizing what the Olympics would be like and just having such great role models.”
“Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.”
“Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster.”
“After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.”
“Everything officers go through in any chase anywhere in the country, but amped up 100 times! I'm right in the thick of things in a car going like 80 miles an hour, and doing 360s in the middle of the road. It was a wild ride.”
“I once bought an old car back after I sold it because I missed it so much and I had forgotten that it never ran. It was a British racing car. You know, because I just wanted it back. I could only remember what was good about it.”
“You can't show me an ad on TV with hard bodies and say I have to buy that car. You have to tell me why that car is better and safer than another car.”
“Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.”
“So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills.”
“So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better.”
“My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.”
“Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.”
“I've always been asked, 'What is my favorite car?' and I've always said 'The next one.'”
“The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.”
“Every job has its downside. For example, being in a band the travel part of it - getting picked up from your house in a car, going to the airport, getting on a plane, going from the airplane to a van, then going from the van to a hotel.”
“Switching over to a hybrid car is one of those right things, but, unfairly or not, it still has a reputation among car enthusiasts as something you have to pedal really fast when you're on the ramp merging into traffic on the 401.”