Haile Gebrselassie Quotes

If I can win a Cup race, that would pretty much show my whole career that I've been able to win in everything I've gotten into.

I want to win a championship and to win the Indy 500 makes me want it so much more.

I love racing and I love doing well.

I don't mind to compete, the age doesn't matter I think, you still have to brake and turn the wheels like everybody else has to, we're all running the same car so I have nothing to lose really.

I think I've shown that all the promises I made that I was going to win races were real and not bull.

In cycling, you just race. When you get to the finish, you see the result.

Winning a race is the goal for sure; it has to be.

I'm not here for anything other than world championships. I don't want to be here driving around and finishing races and scoring points. I only want to win and if I can't do that - if I can't see that I have a future with wins and championships - then I'm not up for Formula One, I'll do something else where I can win.

How many points, how many races you can win, how many times you be on the podium. That's the name of the game.

What I have to show, I show on the track.

When the gate drops, it's time to try and execute the best you can.

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

There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.

But since we've been fighting for first or second place, it's grabbed the media's attention. I enjoy racing them. They are a good team and when you beat them it's something to be proud of.

When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds.

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin.

If somebody is strong and showing good performances and perfect in the thing you are doing, there are people who want to disturb you.

I'm off to race around the world - a race against time and two men. I know I can beat time. I hope I can beat the men.

The only thing that's changed is the competitiveness of the series. It's only become harder to win in our series as the years have gone by. Competition breeds good things, and that's what's happened here.

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.

Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!

I think we'll be in pretty good shape. We've got the same car we ran in all the speedway races since 2001, and it's been a real good car for us. It's led every race we've been in.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.

We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle.