Kevin Magnussen Quotes

I love racing, I love racing everything really - karts, anything - so I do need to keep doing that. But the focus is on Formula One.

I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.

I've got more stuff asked of me every week. But I drive a race car for a living. My car owner lets me race as many sprint car races as I want to run.

I'm an off-road racecar driver. And I think every woman in my life has told me that's not a sensible hobby. But when I was growing, even more than I wanted to be funny, I wanted to be a racecar driver. That's all I thought about. I worked for a race team when I was 15 and I traveled with them.

I love Daytona and Talladega. I'd like to think maybe I could quit one day running all the races and just run a few that I like.

I will do something, time to time, with motor racing. But I'll never go back, I think, to drive full-time because I've lost that anger, that desire.

People have seen now I am a racer, and I have big intentions in the sport, and I am prepared to get my shoulders out if I need to.

I am living my childhood dream of racing in Formula 1 and I've put my whole life into achieving that dream so it is only natural for me to be giving absolutely everything I've got, to achieve success in racing and the day I no longer do that I will retire from racing immediately.

I've always wanted to race cars, ever since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have.

The racing team is the most important thing in the world to me. It's where all my eggs are fully in that basket. I go dance and do TV to try to make that world more important.

My whole life is about racing, and of course everybody wants to do the same with your son. Being a father and doing motor racing with him goes hand in hand.

I'm still a Red Bull driver. I'm part of this family more than ever.

When you're eight, you're not thinking about the future. But karting was always the big passion, the big love.

My plan was to put him on a go-kart track when he was six years-old but he was with his mum at a track in Genk and he called me up crying because he saw a younger guy driving on the track. He said to me 'Daddy, I want to do this,' so when I got home from the Canadian GP, I bought him a go-kart and that's how he started.

I started racing at club level, then the Scottish championship, then the British championship, then the European, then the Worlds. I went through all the various ranks. I spent a good ten years doing karting.

Already in go-karts, I said, 'OK, that's what I really want to do professionally as a career, as a job.'

As soon as I paid the mortgage off in 1988, I started racing cars.

If somebody asks me to choose a biopic, it would be Narain Karthikeyan because I love racing.

This is what I have always done in my life, just racing and driving cars and go-karts fast.

Reaching F1 was always the ultimate goal, I suppose, ever since driving a go-kart my father had bought me for my fifth birthday.

We were fortunate enough to have our own business to keep us moving up through the ranks - go-karts, Bandoleros, Legend cars, Late Models. That's where we stalled out, but luckily we caught a break with Joe Gibbs Racing and the diversity program.

I'll go [racing] until my body won't let me any more. Someone said to me: "The day you stop, you won't be able to get back on the same way as when you did as a pro." I want to delay that kiss goodbye as long as possible.

I started racing go karts when I was six. I just loved everything about racing. I was raised in a racing family. And I always wanted to race for a living at the highest level I could.

When you grow up around racing, you just want to race for a living. It doesn't matter what it is.

My dad certainly has an eye for talent and he did something right getting his sons to the top of NASCAR.