Gear Shifting Quotes

My first car was a stick.

I don't know how to drive a car.

On My First Driving Lesson “First things first: A car has five gears. What is that smell?…Okay, first thing before that first thing: Farting in a car that’s not moving makes you an asshole.

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

Change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That's a lot of effort in a day.

If I get into a car on a circuit, I drive as fast as I can; that's it!

I used to spend hours just sitting in an old wreck of a car with a stickshift; I'd just sit there and shift.

I ain't got no reverse. I've learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.

I've always been a fan of the five-speed transmission - on anything.

I had never driven in England on the left side of the road. I had never driven an automatic car.

Nobody is born with a steering wheel or a gear shift in his hand. It's something you choose to do or you don't.

The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand.

When you're cruising down the road in the fast lane and you lazily sail past a few hard-driving cars and are feeling pretty pleased with yourself and then accidently change down from fourth to first instead of third thus making your engine leap out of your hood in a rather ugly mess, it tends to throw you off stride in much the same way that this remark threw Ford Prefect off his.

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

I am so competitive I cannot imagine myself without a racing car.

I've never not owned a stick shift. There's something about manual transmissions that I really appreciate and enjoy. And besides that, I like driving; I enjoy driving.

Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve.

Driving a Model T Ford was extremely difficult. The pedals are reversed from the way they are now. It's so crude, but that was the motorcar that started it all. It's an incredible part of history.

I love to drive, especially on tracks, where I go a lot faster.

I'm a typical guy. Driving cars and speed are really fun.

I can now successfully drive a stick. That's a huge accomplishment.

I can cook a good soup from scratch, this is true, and I do know how to drive a stick shift.

When he ran from a cop, his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint . . . were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift.

There's so much more power, so you're short-shifting all the way down into fifth, sixth, seventh before you can get the full throttle. But great fun otherwise.

I don't want to sound like a retrospective person stuck in the past, but the fact remains that, in my day, everything was in the hands of the driver - the gear changes, the delicate art of clutch control during race starts, managing engine revs during gear changes - everything.