Buck Baker Quotes

I actually crashed the car I learned to drive on. It was a friend of mine's car.

I clipped a Ferrari, hit the gravel trap at a fair old speed, which lifted the car up into the barrier, and then rolled a few times. I had no injuries or anything - I just had to wait for the marshals to right the car before I could get out.

You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.

I've crashed my car three times.

I guess everybody saw it. It's a deal where I'd been racing cars a long time and I knew going around the track the fender was on the tire hard.

One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car.

This is like my dad's race team where we had one Legend car. If we wrecked it, we couldn't race the next week unless we had enough parts to put it back together again.

I don't drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

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.

Nothing can really prepare you for when you get in the Formula One car. Knowing that you're driving a multimillion-dollar car, and if you crash it it's going to cost a lot of money, and they might not give you another chance, is scary.

Unfortunately in motorsport, accidents can happen.

I'm just a race car driver.

Looks like you're on a roll. This is the second car you've toasted this week." Carl Costanza - Hot Six

I've wrecked a lot of good cars in my day.

For me I'm a NASCAR driver, and I want to be able to win NASCAR championships.

It is never the case that I will push myself more for the World Championships and play differently in a Super Series or vice-versa.

As a child, I always wanted to be a race car pilot.

I think it's impossible to tell your coach and tell your players, 'Try not to win.' That goes against everything an organization is about.

The pressure has increased; I have to practise more and keep performing better.

It would be simpler going to an Olympic Games knowing you had to nail one trick that you've done a hundred times, and if you do it, you'll win. Or if you're a swimmer, if you swim a certain time, you will win. In BMX, there are no guarantees.

People tell me about my record in ICC events, but frankly speaking, the intent has always been the same.

Auto racing has been a big part of my life since I was very young. When the car feels right, it's like, 'We've got a big machine.'

There's always a pressure on performing the best.

I didn't execute to a tee. But my coach always told me if I went out there and did my own thing, it's OK as long as I win.

We'll always focus on making our racing safer and more competitive than ever before. We'll never stop working on that.