Dominick Cruz Quotes

I bought my first dirt bike when I was 12, and I started racing motocross when I was 15 and started getting pretty successful. Then I started racing snowmobiles at 17 and decided I wanted to focus on that and see if I can make a career at it.

My career in racing started at a very young age in California.

I just always dreamed of racing cars, but I didn't think I could do it as a living.

I'm an off-road racecar driver. And I think every woman in my life has told me that's not a sensible hobby. But when I was growing, even more than I wanted to be funny, I wanted to be a racecar driver. That's all I thought about. I worked for a race team when I was 15 and I traveled with them.

I love racing, I love racing everything really - karts, anything - so I do need to keep doing that. But the focus is on Formula One.

My extensive career, with its victories and defeats, championships, etc., has been well documented. My entire life has been focused on being the best race car driver I can be.

I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.

I grew up racing off-road trucks. They were on road courses with jumps. I made a name for myself in that style of racing.

Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure.

I have been going from one racetrack to another for years, since I was 14.

But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more.

I want to be up front racing.

I've been fortunate enough that in every form of motor sports in which I've competed, we've won.

I was really into motocross. I started racing when I was 10 years old and did very, very well. That was my dream, if anything, more than drumming.

Racing's been good to me, but I'm bored of it.

I didn't think I was ever going to be a Cup driver. When I was a kid, before I started racing in the Xfinity Series, I thought that I was never going to get a chance, and then, if I did, I wasn't going to run well enough to maintain that opportunity and keep progressing.

I went to a couple of events with my dad for sure, and I grew up in Daytona where the races ran twice a year. But I never thought - even into my twenties - that this was going to be a big enough career for me.

I like the competition that Nextel Cup gives us. The schedule is difficult. But this is something I want to do for sure.

When I first climbed into a go-kart, aged 13, I thought to myself: 'This is what I want to do with my life, and I want to drive F1.'

I'd like to do a full season of IndyCar if I was going to do it I think. But whether I'll get a chance to do that, I don't know.

As a racing driver, everything you do is to get to Formula 1 and one day it stops.

My dad certainly has an eye for talent and he did something right getting his sons to the top of NASCAR.

I wanted to be a professional motor racer. It was only due to lack of sponsors that I could not do it.

As soon as I paid the mortgage off in 1988, I started racing cars.