Mansell Quotes & Sayings

Was it wrong to take a job just because you'd fallen in love with a bed? — Jill Mansell

There was an element of risk - however small - in everything. You just had to accept that and get on with it. — Jill Mansell

On the surface she might put on a good show, making fun of herself and her manless state, but inwardly it was hard sometimes not to wonder: Why me? — Jill Mansell

All in all, the next minutes surely ranked among the most calamitously awkward of Ronans life. — Jill Mansell

Maybe one day it would happen. Maybe one day her life would start going according to plan instead of spluttering and stalling like some clapped-out old banger. As — Jill Mansell

The first race is really just something that we will all need to get through. Until people see the cars in action I don't think they will understand how quick they will be, which means they are going to be tiring to drive. — Nigel Mansell

The Masters is going to be an awesome challenge. — Nigel Mansell

Mansell can see him in his earphone. — Murray Walker

Every GP Masters race will stand out because we will be available for fans, media and sponsors. — Nigel Mansell

Sometimes dreams trick you into believing they're real. And then there are other times when, completely out of the blue, life suddenly becomes surreal that you wonder if perhaps you're dreaming after all. — Jill Mansell

I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it. — Nigel Mansell

Alain will do everything in his power to win, he doesn't like getting beaten by anyone and least of all me. — Nigel Mansell

The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger. — Nigel Mansell

I've always been reasonably fatalistic. — Nigel Mansell

Sometimes it only takes a split second for a state of absolute calm to turn to one of horror and panic — Jill Mansell

The thing is, I was so bursting for the loo that I thought my bladder was going to explode. I could hardly speak, let alone make it up your stairs. When you threw the key down and I had to bend over to pick it up, I thought that was it, I was going to flood the road! And I'm not even exaggerating. I've never been so desperate in my life. — Jill Mansell

Oh my god, two days ago I fell in love with the girl of my dreams. Tonight I find out she's insane — Jill Mansell

My grandfather always told me that it is no good lying on a hospital bed saying, 'I had the right of way', ... That's one of the reasons I was so pleased that the boys could do the IAM test as well. — Nigel Mansell

But money or no money we're all searching for the same things aren't we It doesn't matter who you are or how much money you have. Love and happiness that's what it's all about — Jill Mansell

I haven't been able to stop thinking of you. One way or another you were always out of reach ... I think I'm in love with you ... Actually no, that's not true. I know I am. — Jill Mansell

Firstly the cars aren't too complicated. They have no traction control, for example, which means you can spin if you try too hard and damage your tires if you're not careful with your driving style. — Nigel Mansell

I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car. — Nigel Mansell

She wasn't the type to stab you in the back. She stabbed you right there in the front so you could watch all the blood gushing out. — Jill Mansell

I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best one? I don't think anybody can say they're the best one because, from one week to the next, you can be on form or off form a little bit. — Nigel Mansell

Maybe when she'd been eighteen it was a quality she might have laughed at, but at twenty-eight, dependability had turned into something of an aphrodisiac. — Jill Mansell

Mansell is slowing it down, taking it easy. Oh, no he isn't! It's a lap record. — Murray Walker

He does possess a penetrating sense of humour. At the end of one briefing in Mexico, when Nigel Mansell had let the world know that he was suffering seriously from uncontrollable diarrhoea and needed to interrupt practice several times on this account, Prost drily asked Roland Bruynseraede, 'If Nigel has to come in during the race will you show a brown flag? — Sid Watkins

Once a Pot Noodler, always a Pot Noodler. — Jill Mansell

Because this was what happened when you loved someone too much and they didn't love you back. They grew stronger and you grew weaker and more helpless. They humiliated you and you let them do it. And you ended up with no self-respect, not even caring that other people were pointing and laughing at you ... — Jill Mansell

The hunger and desire to go racing, however, never leaves your blood but the right opportunity has never really come along - until now that is. — Nigel Mansell

Last night. I couldn't put that book down. I was awake till four this morning finishing it. I didn't know reading could be like that, I had no idea. — Jill Mansell

He bestowed his smiles indiscriminately and left a trail of havoc in his wake. — Jill Mansell

Let me tell you what I want,' he said fiercely. 'For a start, I want you. I told you that, but perhaps I didn't make myself clear. I want the whole package, hang-ups, fears and phobias, as well as the good parts. — Joanna Mansell

On the outside she might appear cool, but inside her heart felt as though it was disintegrating like a digestive dropped in hot tea — Jill Mansell

My 'Movember' moustache was never going to be as big as Nigel Mansell's, but I tried my best. The amazing thing is that when you try to grow a moustache, you notice everyone else's. There are some amazing moustaches on the grid. — Jenson Button

She looked down at the hand and saw that it was clutching instead a handful of perfume card samplers, each one sprayed with a different scent. — Jill Mansell

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Because the greater the love, the more devastating the sense of betrayal. — Jill Mansell

If you marry for money, you end up earning every penny. — Jill Mansell

Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him — Murray Walker

Another brittle hug from Adele - it was like being embraced by a Ryvita — Jill Mansell

This not flirting and just-being-friends business was going to be bloody hard. — Jill Mansell

Clemency marvelled, trying a purple eyeshadow shot with gold sparkly bits on the back of her hand — Jill Mansell

The more you didn't want to bump into someone, sod's law dictated that the more often you would. — Jill Mansell

The format of the race weekend is also very well thought out. We have enough practice time to get the cars well set-up and have a proper qualifying session where we can do as many laps as we like, which is great for the drivers and spectators. — Nigel Mansell

I was quite emotional when I finished my lap, but had to wait for other drivers to cross the line to hear whether I'd actually done it. It feels very special, but I acknowledge that the old master, Nigel Mansell, took his 14 poles from only 16 races. — Sebastian Vettel

Many great people had been considered to be boring, like Nigel Mansell, but anyone who had read the racing driver's autobiography, "Clutch Down, Dick Out", would know that perception was way off the mark. — Mark Jackman

Fitness will be a major factor in the first race and I think that will play into the hands of drivers who have been racing recently, rather than people like me who haven't raced properly for a decade. I'am not one of the favourites to start with. — Nigel Mansell

Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience. — Nigel Mansell

Just under 10 seconds for Nigel Mansell. Call it 9.5 seconds in round numbers. — Murray Walker

I've been in motorsport my whole life since I was eight years of age. — Nigel Mansell

Everything in Formula 1 has been sterilised now, the whole thing is controlled too much. — Nigel Mansell