Forrest Griffin Quotes

I've got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you've got an old car, you've gotta have at least several old cars, 'cause one's always gonna be in the garage.

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.

I like to have one car that I can be certain will go. The thing about classic cars is you can't always assume they will go.

I hate cars.

I travel in a Ford Econoline van with a trailer. So it's not quite so glamorous.

You don't have to worry about whether the car is set up right or not, you know it is, and it's down to you. Ultimately, that's what every driver wants.

At a car dealership, the person who sells the car is the hero, and also gets the commission. But if the mechanics don't service that car well, the customer won't return.

I've got a Range Rover. It's brilliant actually but it's manual.

I myself, as well as Toyota, am not perfect. I, more than anyone, wish for our customers' cars to be safe.

I think you have to feel comfortable with your car. You have to go into turn one, every lap, with confidence. You have to be sure of yourself and your equipment.

You always want to have a winning car, but there is no guarantee that it will be.

My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.

I've got a great team of engineers behind this race car. I've got a great bunch of mechanics that make it reliable. This car is developed to go out there and be better than the Reynard, and I feel that it is.

When my car runs out of gas, I buy a new one. I don't want to ride around in a quitter.

I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy.

I'm not very good with cars. They rebel against me.

The Delorean was an inferior automobile, and nearly impossible for a person of normal size like myself to enter and exit.

Had a Pharaoh been given detailed and explicit designs of an automobile, and had he understood them completely, it would have taxed the resources of his kingdom to have fashioned the thousands of parts for a single car, and that car would have broken down on the first trip to Giza

I love mechanical things, older cars especially.

The only real goal I had was, I wanted to own a car. Because my father, most of the time, he couldn't afford a car. Once in a while he would have a car, but it would be 10 or 15 years old, an old jalopy.

A car is only trouble at a certain point.

I have a Chevy Impala that I roll around in and a '89 Jeep Wrangler, which is the first car I ever bought. It has 180,000 miles on it, and that is my daily whip. I take that everywhere. Don't forget where you came from, that's why I'll never get rid of that Jeep.

I love old cars. They're hard to maintain - I've had a few myself - but great to drive.

It's probably 10% luck and 45-45 on the driver and the car. If you have a bad car, you're done.

As a kid, I had my head under the hood of a car, either an old Ford or a Chevrolet, just learning about it so if anything happened, I could repair it.