Stirling Moss Quotes & Sayings

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. — Stirling Moss

To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster. — Stirling Moss

If God had meant for us to walk, why did he give us feet that fit car pedals? — Stirling Moss

I am not a driver, I am a racer. — Stirling Moss

It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal. — Stirling Moss

Quite frankly, Kimi Raikkonen is the fastest driver in the world — Stirling Moss

It has taken me thirty three years and a bang on the head to get my values right. — Stirling Moss

Motion is tranquility. — Stirling Moss

You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it's the best state ever. — Stirling Moss

I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water, and was prepared to give up everything in life, he could do it. — Stirling Moss

We've got some very strong and robust ladies, but, when your life is at risk, I think the strain of that in a competitive situation will tell when you're trying to win. The mental stress I think would be pretty difficult for a lady to deal with in a practical fashion. I just don't think they have aptitude to win a Formula 1 race. — Stirling Moss

In order to finish first, you first have to finish. — Stirling Moss

Movement is tranquility. — Stirling Moss

There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love. — Stirling Moss

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

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. — Stirling Moss

To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster. — Stirling Moss

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

Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls. — Stirling Moss

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. — Stirling Moss

If everything is under control you are just not driving fast enough. — Stirling Moss

It's hard to drive at the limit, but it's harder to know where the limits are. — Stirling Moss

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