Seanan McGuire Quotes

I think my strengths are definitely - I'm a really good glider. I'm one of the fastest, like on a straight drag race, I can pretty much kill that.

If I get into a car on a circuit, I drive as fast as I can; that's it!

If I weren't skateboarding, I'd love to race cars. I like anything that's fast and active.

I love pace. I love it.

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?

I feel the need... the need for speed.

I love to drive, especially on tracks, where I go a lot faster.

It was a pretty wild ride. The race wasn't bad, but qualifying would take your breath.

I'm a typical guy. Driving cars and speed are really fun.

Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It's like a rush, I really enjoy that.

I always liked speed.

All sports have a zone, but ours is at 95 mph. You can feel the speed; you can feel the wind. It's the most euphoric thing I've ever done.

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

The smell of fuel, driving on the limit on the edge of sliding, it just gives you a lot of adrenaline.

My athlete idol is Usain Bolt. He's inhumanly fast!

Driving a race car is like dancing with a chain saw.

It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on

I'd be a race car driver. I love fast cars.

There is always the excitement of running races.

Generally, when I have a faster car, I just drive around the lapped cars that I'm lapping.

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

It was when I first tried a go-kart in '96. I saw a go-kart race locally, and that got me excited about it, and I wanted to try one. When I got to try one, I just loved the speed and after that it became more about how to improve the lap time and all the details and that.

I love racing.

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.

I think that was the scariest part about bobsled, is when you just don't know what's happening, you don't know where you are on the track, you don't know when it's going to be over, and you don't know what it's supposed to feel like.