Dan Wheldon Quotes

I think for me I've always loved being in the water and I love training and I love being at the pool so you know it's not a chore for me to go training, but come race day I would never just train to train - I train to race.

I'm a racer at heart more than anything else, and that will always be my priority: competing. But ultimately, if you can't drive, you can still have the competitive spirit outside of a car.

I was really happy with my race, though. I beat my personal best by 1.2 seconds.

Competing helps me to polish my shape.

I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet.

I often felt that I didn't train and race enough team sprint to get it right. You need to know that you've got a place to have that continuity of results. Am I in? Am I out of this one? That's tough.

The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.

I'm a competitor. I really enjoyed the race more than just going out and running to run.

I just want to give my best in London, I want to cross that line and see a personal best on the clock then I will see what position I am in.

We're involved in racing because there's that element of competition. But there's that desire to push yourself beyond the natural comfort zone and the boundaries that are preset if you like, and to be better than the rest.

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

Every race is not perfect; there are obviously a lot of things I can improve on at the end of the race.

Every time I go out and race it's a goal to go out and run faster than I've done before.

I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.

Pressure is always a part of a racing driver's life, but my father helped me a lot on my way to becoming a F1 driver.

I've been racing for my whole life, and I know what I need to do to be able to win.

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

I want to do a movie on sports - like a movie on a racer or a marathon runner - as I feel I'll fit that bill perfectly.

Again, racing for me was about energy management.

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.

As a competitor you want to be out there starting and competing.

When I am No. 2, and I am working as hard as I can, then quite often the keeper ahead starts to raise his game even more.

Some weeks, I'll go super-hard at practice for two straight days, but then the third day, something happens away from basketball, and I'll lose focus. I'll say, 'I just want to get through practice. I don't want to conquer it today.' But then I'll go home and realize I missed a chance to get better, and it'll bother me.

My leadership mentality is to outwork everybody else around me, and hopefully the guys respond well to that and work harder for themselves.

People in athletics thrive on competition. That's what makes you better.