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[kober]

I've just wrote a simple script which adds random quote at the end of my email signature file. Now I'm searching for a few quotes in English. I've found some Walkerisms, some Eddie Irvine quotes and some quotes about and from Gilles Villeneuve (and I've also stolen some of your signatures ). Don't you know any more great quotes (the shorter the better) or any URLs? Thanks in advance

[Nira]

http://www.cp-tel.ne...otes/index.html

[kober]

Originally posted by Nira
http://www.cp-tel.ne...otes/index.html

Thanks, but I'm searching for racing related ones Well, at least Plato was driving in the BTCC ;)

[Gemini]

"Welcome to the Piranhia Club" - Dennis to Jordan, at Monza 1991, when Flavio signed MSchu

[130R]

" Oh DeCesaris! He's gone off huge!"

[david_martin]

"for a racing driver, he seems to have a very unhappy repore with machinery" - Murray Walker on Riccardo Patrese.

There was a thread on this a few months ago. Might I suggest that a visit to the search facility might be in order.

[kober]

Originally posted by david_martin
[BThere was a thread on this a few months ago. Might I suggest that a visit to the search facility might be in order. [/B]

I definitely tried, but I haven't found anything except that Villeneuve and Irvine.
I had a great selection of those, but it was in Czech and the translations were poor.

[david_martin]

Originally posted by kober

I definitely tried, but I haven't found anything except that Villeneuve and Irvine.
I had a great selection of those, but it was in Czech and the translations were poor.

Czech languange quotes on Atlas?
You obviously did not search the Atlas BB, which is what I was suggesting, so here:

http://www.atlasf1.c...&threadid=12326

have fun

[Loz]

Here's one...

‘I just want to say one thing to you and that is: **** you. I’m in F1 now and I’m staying here.’

JV to Ron Dennis on the eve of Damon Hill's Championship victory.
Apparently Ron had insulted JV a few years earlier when Jacques was visiting a GP.

Loz

[coyoteBR]

From Nelson Piquet:

"Nigel Mansell is the greatest idiot I've ever seen."
"Indycar (CART) is a toy for retired gramps like me."

[kober]

Originally posted by david_martin
Czech languange quotes on Atlas?

Nope, it was from one czech site. In fact I know only about one more Czech on this BB.

Originally posted by david_martin
You obviously did not search the Atlas BB, which is what I was suggesting, so here:
http://www.atlasf1.c...&threadid=12326

I tried to search the Atlas BB, maybe I gave it up, when I got too many results. Thanks a lot, that's exactly what I needed.

[RedFever]

From my May Murray's quotes post:

Murray: Ferrari won't be developing their car anymore this season,
Brundle: How do you know that?
Murray: I was there when I said it

"The two McLaren drivers are so hot they look like 2 fried lobsters in silver suits"

"David Coulthard in his nun's outfit"

Nakano is being lapped, will he pull over ... he does .. Shinji, you are a Japanese Gentleman!

..." 'Out of my way, Damon!' says Schumie 'Come on... Out of my way...' Finally, the current World Champion lets the World Champion through."

Murray - "First man out is Marques in the Arrows. Of course he's going out early to generate some media interest"
Martin - "I'm sure he would generate some interest if he went out in the Arrows because Marques drives for Minardi"

"I can't believe what's happening visually, in front of my eyes".

"Hello...hello...three wheels, three wheels on my wagon... but.... OH!!!!..... it's Nakano..."

"We're watching Ralf Schumacher... son, of course of double world champion Michael Schumacher..... er, the brother of Michael Schumacher...."

" the first three cars are all Escorts, which isn't surprising as this is an all Escort race"

"Well he's world champion, we only get one of those a year."

"Heinz-Harald Frentzen. The man with all the luck, it's all bad."

:" look at that tyre! Someone had better go get that quickly. (As if on cue, marshall runs out grabs it) WELL DONE LAD!!!!!"

' thats one of the mechanics using a feeler guage to measure the depth of tread in the slick'.

" remember that Jacques Villeneuve is a SICK man." Referring to Jacques' illness during the race.

Murray: There's a car coming into the pits now, they're so unreliable with all those electronics on board.
James: Actually, Murray, one of his wheels has just fallen off!

"Rally points scoring is 20 for the fastest, 18 for the second fastest, right down to 6 points for the slowest fastest."

"Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him."

" he's done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures".

" Damon Hill is going under the drier part of the Monaco circuit, that's of course because it's got a roof"

" that's Alboreto OFF!" [long pause - somber voice] "Now Michele Alboreto did not in fact qualify for the race, so how we managed to see him go off I don't know. We'll let you know." [Even longer pause, now laughing] "Now I'm not a technician, but it appears a shot of Michele Alboreto going off in qualifying has crept into this live transmission, thank you Mr. Producer, anyway that was qualifying, this is the race..."

"James has just nipped out to have a look at the far side of the circuit" [Actually James Hunt would leave the commentary box to smoke a joint!]

"I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong"

"... now, just in case there is any CONFUSION (operative term here) this is the race order on lap 19: David Coulthard leads has yet to stop; Hakkinen leads has yet to stop..."

" the Williams pit are getting ready for Hill, the tyre coolers are coming off"

Damon Hill is coming into the pit lane, yes it's Damon Hill coming into the Williams pit, Damon Hill in the pit, no it's Michael Schumacher!

we have had 5 races so far this year, Brazil, Argentina, Imola, Schumacher Monaco!

"....Schumacher crosses the line to start another lap, there's nothing there!"

" here comes Berger, out of Tabac into the swimming pool."

"Andrea de Cesaris...the man who has won more Grands Prix than anyone else without actually winning one of them."

Murray: " there are flames coming from the back of Prost's car as he enters the swimming pool."
James: "Well, that should put them out then."

Rallycross at Lydden Hill. " Keith Ripp comes round Chesson's Drift, avoids the Hatter's bank..." [upon which little yellow Mini commences its ascent] "... BUT HE DOES NOT!!!!!" [Mini now 30 feet in air, lands heavily performs six rolls before stopping] "... BANG, BANG, OVER, OVER goes the Mini..." A quality moment.

Ukyo Katayama is undoubtedly the best formula 1 driver that grand prix racing has ever produced


Hope it helped.......

[RedFever]

some quotes on Schumacher:

Ron Dennis -
· " There is no one on the same level as Michael Schumacher. All we can do as a constructor is provide our drivers with a technological advantage."
Ross Brawn -
· "Because he's so strong , it's often a case of not losing the race for him. When everything is in the right position we are giving him a car that's good , it's then a case of making sure you don't make a mistake. If you don't he will win the race."
· "Michael is complete . He's 100 percent at every aspect of being a successful racing driver - fitness, speed ability, motivation of the team, motivation of his engineers."
Martin Brundle - ex-teamate.
· "I have felt for some time he was the fastest out there even before Senna died, I had become convinced that in terms of raw speed he was."
Jacques Villeneuve -
· "I almost don't know him personally. We sometimes meet at parties. He seems nice. But the only thing I know for sure is that he is a very good driver, very fast." (Pre-Jerez 1997)
·
Bernie Ecclestone -
· " I get fed up with all the complaints about Michael's driving. I don't know why they keep harping on about it. He's a racer it's a pity we dont have more like him. He is good for the sport, like the other guys such as Ayrton Senna Nigel Mansell, he's prepared to take a few risks. We don't want drivers who pussyfoot around ; we want them racing."
· "Anyone who hasn't realised by now that he is the best is a real idiot"
Flavio Briatore - on the fifth-gear exploits at Barcelona, 1994.
· "...this has been the best ever drive from Michael. Considering the problems he had to finish second is a fantastic achievement. He managed to find a good rythym his lap times were quite unbelieveable."
(In one of his best races yet, Michael stormed from 16th on the grid to win the Belgian Grand Prix in 1995. This is unparalleled except for one other driver - John Watson - who won races from 17th 22nd on the grid in !982 '83 respectively).
Tom Walkinshaw - on Eddie Jordan's failure to secure Michael's signature.
· "How anyone can allow a talent like that to be walking around the paddock I don't know"
Murray Walker -
· "The chap that Britain regards as the evil Hun, Michael Schumacher, is actually an extremely nice bloke. He's friendly, cheerful, helpful, enormously professional, stupifyingly eloquent in what is to him a foreign language I think he's a bloody nice bloke. I'm naive enough, idealistic enough, to think that what happened in Jerez was most certainly not a premeditated foul but an instinctive reaction."
Eddie Irvine -
· "I look at the other drivers like Coulthard, or Hakkinen, or Villeneuve, I know I'm as good, or better. They're just number twos, like me. Michael is the best - look, he's going to go red if I carry on talking like this!"
"In the current crop of drivers, he is the tops. On his own. then there are the rest of us. No one can touch him. If he goes on on, he will be the greatest of all. Even better than Senna."

[RedFever]

Murray in Aussie 2000

Australia 2000:

"I think that as intelligent as he appears to be, he has a good chance of placing reasonably, maybe four, maybe five, but let's see how he does against Ralf Stommelen" talking about Jenson's qualyfing debut.......

Martin is trying to match Murrey's level "Mika, Mika, hello Mika, are you interested in talking to me today?"
Mika "No"
Martin "OK, good,... so we carry on next....very confusing...... who is fastest, Ferrari or McLaren"
Mika "Look at the grid........look at the grid"
Martin "I know, but what about the warmup, what about yesterday morning?"
Mika "well....you know.....what about yesterday morning? I only did 6 laps......."

Martin: "Red lights are on" Murray: "three lights, four lights, five lights, go in Australia, lovely start from Mika Hakkinen!!!"

"Hear this!!!! lap 37, Michael Schumacher leads, Jacques Villeneuve is in 2nd position, Ralf Schumacher in his Williams BMW is in third Jenson Button is in 4th position. Incredible"

Murray talking about Rubens how he is so popular in Brazil: " in his first race second only to Michael Schmacher ...he goes into the lead......is....wow!!!! I was gonna say......they are going to deify him...... they will now, Michael Schumacher must have a problem because there was no hesitation there whatsoever .." Martin: "Hold on, hold on, hold on....he must stop again for gas".

" of course....oh, out of the race goes Jenson Button, wow....that it...what....it looks to me as though it's not his fault, its some sort of a problem look at the smoke in the back of the car he can say with ENOUUURMOUS pride, ENOUUURMOUS pride.... that he was in the points.."

[RedFever]

last quotes I have.......

A good example of the famous Murray Walker kiss of death (from Brazil 2000):
Murray : "McLaren - if they can keep going of course - are going to close up on Ferarri in the Constructors Championship, a bit, becuase....."
Martin : "Problem!"
Murray : "Into the pitlane comes the race leader Mika Hakkinen." (to retire).

Murray: "Look up there!! That's the sky!!!"

From the British Grand Prix 2000:
Jim R.: "[It's over to] the big Easter Bunny of Formula 1, Murray Walker."
Murray: "I don't know about the big Easter Bunny, Jim. I used to go to the Bunny Club in Park Lane quite a lot, but my wife's watching the programme so enough of that!"

"Jenson Button is in the top ten, in eleventh position."

Spain 2000:
"Aaaand look at this..."

"The man who is going against the grain, literally, in terms of tyre choice is Michael Schumacher."

"... Barrichello goes through - wow! Fantastic, fantastic! Barrichello takes both of them, Michael goes down to 5th place Ralf Schumacher goes to 4th!" (some real racing gets Murray going on full throttle)

"I remember in Imola, I went up to three Union Jack-wrapped chaps after Nigel Mansell had won a race, said 'That wasn't bad, was it?', they said 'Che?' - they were all Italians!"

"So while we wait for them to come on to the podium, I'll interrupt myself when they do..."

Nurburgring 2000:
Murray: "It would be wonderful for David Coulthard, for McLaren for Britain if he could get Pole Position, because he has yet to get one this year, I have seldom been anything like as much impressed as I was by his dignity fortitude in the face of enormous adversity at the British Grand Prix meeting two weeks ago."
Martin: "I was in Spain a few weeks ago, Murray. I think we were both there."
Murray: "Just making sure you were awake there, Martin. Glad you were."

"So let's assume that Michael Schumacher wins this race, whoa!" (Schuey slides on a white line just as Murray talks about him)

Monaco 2000:
" in front of David Coulthard, the scarlet McLaren of four-times Monaco Grand Prix winner, Michael Schumacher."

James: "Situations like this, Murray, sometimes give rise to the funniest little things. There's one portable toilet at the end of the pit-lane. Michael Schumacher decided immediately upon rejoining the grid he wanted to go to it. shortly afterwards Mika Hakkinen Ralf Schumacher arrived had to stand in an orderly queue while Michael spent a penny, they all came back out again."
Murray: "So the Germans got to the loo first of all."

Canada 2000:
"Ron Dennis may have got the CBE - he richly deserves it - but having successfully overcome the combined efforts of two very determined security men to prevent me getting into the commentary box, I think I deserve one too!" [You'll just have to make do with your OBE then Murray!]

"Coulthard is the only man who is holding a candle to Michael Schumacher, that candle is under the Ferrari's rear wing, because Coulthard is now within half a second of Schumacher's Ferrari."

Germany 2000:
"There's three Germans here at Hockenheim in the race tomorrow, if they all qualify. Four Germans - the Schumacher brothers, Frenzten Heidfeld." (Murray does Python)

"When you walk round the Hockenheimring, it's quite a spooky feeling, because you've just got these enormous, dark, satanic pine trees all around you, it's as quiet as a mouse."

"This is, very literally, the calm before the storm."

"I have to say it again - in Formula 1 anything can happen, it usually does. everything has happened in this quite amazing motor race."

"Frentzen attack! attack! attack!"

"If you believe in Ferrari get down pray, because Rubens Barrichello is on his last lap on what is looking like his first victory."

Hungary 2000:
"Totally unpredictable, what is going to happen in this race. All that you can say at the present moment is that the two fastest men this year in Hungary are up at the front on the grid."

"Two lights on, three lights on, four lights on, five laps on..."

"McLaren Ferrari have won six races each this year. Mika Hakkinen has won three, David Coulthard has won three, Michael Schumacher has won five Rubens Barrichello has won five."

Belgium 2000:
Murray is interviewing Jenson Button in the Williams hospitality area. From where he is sitting with the angle of the camera, part of the signage is obscured so now reads "MW.WilliamsF1Team". (Murray finally lives his dream!)

"Replay through the Bus Stop of Jarno Trulli. those kerbs with their saw teeth - s-a-w - really do give the car the driver a shaking."

Murray: "...5th is Jenson Button, terrific stuff.." Martin: "Third, now!" Murray: "AAAND LOOK AT THAT! THIS YOUNG MAN IS INCREDIBLE!"

Murray: "Button into the right hander out of it, the gap between him Mika Hakkinen IS A MERE THREE TENTHS OF A SECOND. IF HE KEEPS THIS UP HE'S GOING TO GO UP TO THE SECOND PLACE ON THE GRID, BECAUSE JARNO TRULLI'S TIME WAS 7-TENTHS OF A SECOND SLOWER THAN THAT OF MIKA HAKKINEN. LOOKING SMOOTH, LOOKING CLEAN, LOOKING TOTALLY IN CONTROL OF THINGS. INTO THE BUS STOP, OUT OF THE BUS STOP, OVER THE LINE WILL GO JENSON BUTTON HE IS IN
. . . . . . . . . . . ."
Martin: "Stays third."
(Murray sounds totally crest-fallen, or maybe just out of breath!)

"Yes! Jean Alesi has just gone round in 2 minutes 2 seconds, so that's three seconds faster in the Prost than Alesi in the McLaren."

Italy 2000:
"Mazzacane competed in Touring Cars the obligatory kart racing in Formula 3 for a couple of years before he went to the inevitable Formula 3000. Although it's not so inevitable these days - Jenson Button has avoided it so has Luciano Burti."

"But Jarno Trulli is not having a nightmare as he comes down to the Barrichello for what will be the last time..." (unfortunately for Murray, the Italians have not yet named a chicane after the Brazilian!)

"Ferrari are having a bit of a renaissance here in Italy."

Indy:
" the rain came down washed the circuit dry"

"........ Schumacher has just completed lap 77 out of 73."


Hope you enjoyed as usual!!!!!

[P1 Pyrsol]

[MrAerodynamicist]

"If God had wanted us to walk, he`d have given us pogo-sticks instead of feet. Feet are made to fit car pedals." - Sterling Moss

[RJL]

Nelson Piquet:
"Nigel Mansell is a blockhead with a stupid and ugly wife."

Gilles Villeneuve:
"What makes you think I'll be around next year?"

[Gary Grant]

Apologies if these have been posted before, but these are some of my favourites...

"You always see gaps in motor racing. The trick is to make sure they are wider than your car" - Mario Andretti

Murray Walker
"We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite"

"All quiet on the Silverstone Front. You could cut the atmosphere here with a cricket stump..."

"He's obviously gone in for a wheel change. I say obviously because I can't see it"

Murray: "What's that? There's a BODY on the track!!!"
James: "Um, I think that that is a piece of BODY-WORK, from someone's car."

"Well let's, uh, lugsh, luxurrriate in a little hypothesis and try to work out what, if anything, is wrong with Alain Prost. Has he got tire problems? Very unlikely. Is Prost having fuel trouble? Well, who knows? I think it's a bit unlikely. Is Prost having gearbox trouble? I can't tell you. And since P, uh, Prost is unlikely to come on the radio and let me know you'll have to guess along with me."

"and I interrupt myself to bring you this...."

"Only a few more laps to go and then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is."

"You can't see a digital clock because there isn't one."

"Michael Schumacher leading Damon Hill by four tenths of a second or so, because it's moving...[cut to Hill under Schu's rear wing] AND THAT'S NOT FOUR TENTHS OF A SECOND! That's Michael Schumacher!"

"And we have had 5 races so far this year, Brazil, Argentina, Imola,
Schumacher and Monaco!"

"Nigel Mansell - the man of the race - the man of the day - the man from the Isle of Man"

"I would still race even if no-one ever paid me anything" - Jim Clark

"We all know, every one of us, that death is in our contract" - Francois Cevert

"The essence of motor racing is to go as fast as you can without killing yourself" - Dan Gurney

[Nasty McBastard]

and some people wonder why we love ole murray