Juan Pablo Montoya Quotes

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

Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? - Of course it does - I'm not an idiot.

Formula One was a very dangerous sport. It still is dangerous. But the danger factor is also the exciting part.

When you're in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you're not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you're not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn't failing; it's getting too comfortable.

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

There are some people who watch NASCAR for the highly skilled driving - but most people watch it for the crashes.

Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.

I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I'm fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I'm also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.

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

Speed and danger don't always go together, but it's proper fun when they do.

People say they want to be in risky environments and do all kinds of exciting stuff. But they don't actually know what risk means: that risk actually does bring failure and mistakes.

I know it is a dangerous sport but this is something I like.

At the end of the day, driving on the limit, sometimes over it to achieve the best out of it, especially at such high speeds... mistakes are easily done.

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

I have a passion for fast cars. To drive them means pure joy to me.

The speed is something dangerous but very exciting.

In a way, watching an attractive, potentially dangerous guy play guitar is a little like watching a tiger agree to do tricks for his trainer. You know that they could just turn and kill you. But you're so flattered and pleased that instead they agreed to stand on a decorative box and wave and count for the crowd that for a while you forget how big the scary part of them really is.

There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes.

Good swimmers at length are drowned.

By being a racing driver you are under risk all the time. By being a racing driver means you are racing with other people. And if you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver because we are competing, we are competing to win. And the main motivation to all of us is to compete for victory, it's not to come 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th. I race to win as long as I feel it's possible. Sometimes you get it wrong? Sure, it's impossible to get it right all the time. But I race designed to win, as long as I feel I'm doing it right.

I will continue to get behind the wheel of a racing car as long as I am able. But that could all end tomorrow.

Nearly everything that was fun, of course, was also a little dangerous: riding roller coasters, skydiving, gambling, sex.

There is a joy in danger.