Victoria Pendleton Quotes

I get butterflies before going out to ride every day, but they disappear as soon as I am on a horse, and I think that is the same for most jockeys. Then it is just down to you and the horse, and there is a certain freedom in that.

I feel like I was born to ride the track.

Tell me what it's like. The race." "What it's like is a battle. A mess of horses and men and blood. The fastest and strongest of what is left from two weeks of preparation on the sand. It's the surf in your face, the deadly magic of November on your skin, the Scorpio drums in the place of your heartbeat. It's speed, if you're lucky. It's life and it's death or it's both, and there's nothing like it.

If you could call the thing a horse. If it hadn't shown a flash of speed in the straight, it would have got mixed up with the next race.

I didn't get into racing to make friends.

Part of the challenge of Most Wanted is trying to become the most notorious street racer on the pavement.

When I take go-karts out with my friends, it's a disaster normally. But in the race car, I'm calm because they pay me to do this, and I have to be professional.

I started to ride when I was very young, and it's a sport I have practised for a very long time.

I do kung fu. I box. I ride horses. I like to race cars in a crazy way.

Racing is the only time I feel whole.

Once you get on to the racetrack on Sunday and you strap your helmet on and you come down especially toward the end of the race, it's every man for himself. It's me against the world. It's me against everybody else. Sometimes you're against your critics, as well, too.

I feel gifted for having the opportunity to compete in Daytona.

Sometimes I go Go Karting. Just regular old kid stuff.

I have a passion for racing, for competing and for fighting on the track.

We are all racers at heart, and what we want to see is out and out racing, and may the quickest man win.

Every race is different. If you come down the home straight neck and neck, the crowd cheering for you can decide the race.

Racing's my life.

Charlotte is a place I always enjoy racing.

Every time I jump in the car I feel very happy. Racing is what I love to do and I am very lucky I can do it.

I think F1, ultimately, is man and machine at its absolute limit. It is modern day chariot racing.

When drivers are going at their best, trying their hardest, taking chances and doing amazing things, that's what fans love.

There is always the excitement of running races.

I just love racing: I'll even race you to the door.

When I first climbed into a go-kart, aged 13, I thought to myself: 'This is what I want to do with my life, and I want to drive F1.'

For sure people around me, they always say don't do ovals, we are not happy to see you doing that. I'm not saying I'm scared, I'm not scared to do ovals. But I never thought about it. I was not really planning to go to do Formula Indy.