Stirling Moss
Stirling Moss
Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss, OBEis a British former Formula One racing driver. An inductee into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, he achieved success in several categories of competition and has been described as "the greatest driver never to win the World Championship". Moss finished as championship runner-up on four occasions and third a further three times between 1955 and 1961...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionCelebrity
Date of Birth17 September 1929
achieve boundary disaster prepared risk
To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.
movement quiet tranquility
Movement is tranquility.
years car racing
Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls.
states stage looking-down
You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it’s the best state ever.
taken years three
It has taken me thirty three years and a bang on the head to get my values right.
racers drivers
I am not a driver, I am a racer.
climbing achievement limits
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.
giving-up believe men
I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water, and was prepared to give up everything in life, he could do it.
past racing lines
The ideal racecar will expire 100 yards past the finish line.
brain relaxation muscles
It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.
quiet tranquility
Motion is tranquility.
two car racing
The best classroom of all times was about two car lengths behind Juan Manuel Fangio.
running giving-up believe
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.
car racing littles
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.