27 Quotes by Stirling Moss

I am not a driver, I am a racer.

The main thing is to be honest with yourself, know and recognize your limits and attain maximum achievement within them. I would for example get more satisfaction from climbing Snowdon, which I know I could, than from attempting Everest, which I couldn't.

The ideal racecar will expire 100 yards past the finish line.

Motion is tranquility.

The best classroom of all times was about two car lengths behind Juan Manuel Fangio.

I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough, and I do believe that. I believe that if I wanted to run a mile is four minutes I could do it. I would have to give up everything else in my life, but I could run a mile in four minutes. I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water and was prepared to give up everything else in life, he could do that.

I love to feel a racing car around me, to feel the way it holds me. I love to make it do all that it was built to do, and then a little bit more.

In order to finish first, you first have to finish.

It is better to go into a corner slow and come out fast, than to go in fast and come out dead.