Sterling Marlin Quotes

As a driver, your target is always to be with the most competitive team possible.

Gary Smith, when I came to America, taught me a great deal about racing.

I have to accept risk as a racing driver.

I clipped a Ferrari, hit the gravel trap at a fair old speed, which lifted the car up into the barrier, and then rolled a few times. I had no injuries or anything - I just had to wait for the marshals to right the car before I could get out.

When I think of 'Mad Dog Time,' I think of the fact that I got to drive fast cars all day long up in Canada. That was really fun. We were on these back roads with these great cars.

In my city of Maracay, there is a go kart circuit about five minutes from my home. When I was about three or four years old, I said I wanted to race, but I was too young; then, when I reached the age of seven, my father gave me a kart and we started from there.

I've done drag races. I've done Long Beach Grand Prix stuff. I've done NASCAR stuff. Just about anything carwise under the sun, I've done. Whether it be driving schools or racing schools, I've had a passion for it for a long time.

When I'm doing longer runs I can be very consistent on the lap times because I know what the car is doing all the time.

Formula 1 is such a big jump from Formula 2, and there are so many new things that you need to learn.

Those youngsters go out there and set a record and clinch the pole position. But what do you do if you wreck your car. That record doesn't spend too well.

I love speed. I love racing cars, whether it's on the streets or wherever. Don't tell the St. Louis police, though.

If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.

Richard Childress and myself have made some important innovations on our cars.

My first car was, as depicted in 'Sleepwalk with Me,' my mother's '92 Volvo station wagon that had 80,000 miles on it, and I had put 40,000 miles on it, so by the time it retired it had 120,000, and I basically killed it. It served me well, and my mechanic was always very angry with me because I just didn't properly care for it.

To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it. When you're driving a 750hp machine at 200mph, the noise and the vibrations are incredible. The G-force when you take big corners is like someone trying to rip your head off. You hit the brakes, and it feels as if the skin is being pulled off your body.

Every time I get into a Nationwide car after being in a Cup car, I feel so much more comfortable than I did previously.

With roadracing, it takes a lot more time and money.

To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.

But to personally satisfy my own adrenalin needs, I've been racing cars a little bit, which has been fun.

Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.

I've been around racing a fairly long time, but when it comes to the important issues, I'm happy to let others make the big decisions.

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

But my passion is racing cars. It's what I like to do in my off time.

The competition in today's world of racing is so tough.

Tires were so bald on the truck that the air was showin' through, and I had to drive fifty miles an hour all the way out there, because the vibration was so bad.