Elana Meyers Quotes

Bobsled is a universal sport, and most people don't know that. Anybody can slide down a hill.

Bobsledding is like sprinting with NASCAR. You get to push these 400-pound sleds as fast as you can down a hill and hop in. How could you not enjoy that?

The first run in a four-man sled was one of the most nerve-wracking I've had in my life.

People say a two-man sled is like driving a racecar, and a four-man is like driving a truck. And it feels that way.

Bobsledding is an expensive sport.

Yeah, no one really grows up competing in the bobsled. You have to be 16 years old before you can even drive one. And there are really only two places in the country where you can bobsled - Park City, Utah, and Lake Placid, New York.

A guy like Usain Bolt would be sick behind a bobsled.

Bobsledders are big athletes, and I'm a big athlete.

In bobsled, you work as a team - a driver and a brakeman. Both athletes push, but the brakeman's biggest responsibility is to push as fast as she can and get in and ride down in a good aerodynamic position. The driver helps to push but gets in first and then steers the sled down the track. We aren't just along for the ride, despite how it looks!

One isn't considered a bobsledder if he hasn't crashed.

I'm excited by going 85 mph, head-first, down an ice track.

When bobsled is going right - and it sometimes goes wrong - it's the closest thing I could imagine to being a superhero.

My grandmother asks me to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat her. And I'll probably enjoy it. Competitive to a fault, sometimes.

I like fast cars. And I like champions.

In racing, the fastest person wins. It is very simple.

You learn very very quickly that it is mostly about swearing, actually. That's all you're doing, swearing, in a box with wheels.

He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie.

We have 21 races in the year and Monaco is the one that you want to win.

You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

Hope your new boots are fast Bella. One little jar isn't going to keep a hungry bear occupied for long." "I only have to be faster than you.

You try to do a technical feature: in front of me I had a strong rider who brakes hard and it's difficult to pass.

By being a racing driver you are under risk all the time. By being a racing driver means you are racing with other people. And if you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver because we are competing, we are competing to win. And the main motivation to all of us is to compete for victory, it's not to come 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th. I race to win as long as I feel it's possible. Sometimes you get it wrong? Sure, it's impossible to get it right all the time. But I race designed to win, as long as I feel I'm doing it right.

I was born to race and to win.

Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps; the need to take risks; and the chance to be number one.

I love to race the best people in the world and the fastest people in the world.