Robby Gordon Quotes

There is always the excitement of running races.

I love racing.

Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

I love racing and I love doing well.

I just feel rejuvenated in such a big way because of these race cars I get to drive.

Running an airline is a normal job. Racing is more.

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.

When people go to a track meet, they're looking for something, a world record, something that hasn't been done before. You get all this magnetic energy, people focusing on one thing at the same time. I really get excited about it. It makes me want to compete even more. It makes it all worthwhile, all the hours of hard work.

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

We may train or peek for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport.

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.

Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

Again, racing for me was about energy management.

In my whole career, I've never seen this type of race that you had to wait for the last day. There's so many teams that are involved. You've got to smile because we're in it.

I always liked speed.

Overtaking is nearly as fun as winning races. The rush you get from it is awesome.

When I was in school, we would always have running races. I was good at it. Always sprinting. I can run long distance, too.

When drivers are going at their best, trying their hardest, taking chances and doing amazing things, that's what fans love.

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

In the past it sometimes took me two or three rounds to get the adrenaline rush.

The descents are quite fun - everybody has a sort of competition and tries to go for it and then you compare top speeds when you get to the bottom.

I am a big fan of racing.

What I know is when the racing is tighter and there's more passing, there's just more excitement and more contact and more things that happen. That's kind of what NASCAR is all about.

The Tour de France is ridiculously hard.