Overtake Quotes

"I used to live in North Wales and I`d come back from work and have to race to get ready and drive to a gig. There have been a few times where I`m running really, really late, it`s pissing down with rain and I`ll overtake and there`ll be something coming the other way and I`m just `arrgh!` - moments away from a head on collision. I was a bit of a girl racer, I used to love going to car crusies and all that"

I drive pretty fast even on the highway in my Lamborghini. I don`t like to drive at enormous top speed, but I do like to drive a little bit faster than everyone else. So if everybody on the highway is doing 80, I`ll do 82 or something, and if people are driving 60, I`ll want to do 62. I think there`s something in my blood, in my instincts, that makes me want to overtake. (Newsweek, Sept. 25, 2006)

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

This was quite a straightforward rally for me. I lost time on the first day when a tyre came off the rim, but by the end of it I was back to fourth again and from then on it was just a question of holding that position. I had a bit of excitement today when the Ford of Daniel Sola held me up in the morning and I had to overtake him, but apart from that we had no dramas. It was a good, solid performance from ourselves and the team.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

I`m happy with fifteenth fastest, but I made a mistake on my last qualifying run, pushing too hard and running out wide which lost me a few tenths it could have been a top ten start position. Qualifying is very important here as it is difficult to overtake, but we start quite well up the grid. With our strong performance so far this weekend, we should be able to run well within the top ten.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave