Top 70 Danica Patrick Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Give yourself permission to shoot for something that seems totally beyond your grasp. You may be surprised at your capabilities.”

— Danica Patrick

2. “Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you’ll never know. I truly believe what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.”

— Danica Patrick

3. “I would also tell kids to make sure that they love whatever they end up doing in life. To really be good at something and excel you have to love it and have to be dedicated to it. Not every day is great and not every day is easy, but you do it because you love it.”

— Danica Patrick

4. “I take none of that to heart. I don’t feel like there’s anything that I need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more.”

— Danica Patrick

5. “We don’t do things we aren’t good at by nature. I wouldn’t play basketball because I’m only 5? 1". Find what you enjoy – whether it’s racing, flying a helicopter, being a doctor, or stitching clothes together. Once you’ve done that, you have the passion you need.”

— Danica Patrick

6. “I’ve never seen myself as a ‘girl driver.’ I’m just a driver.”

— Danica Patrick

7. “I want to win at everything. I usually don’t like things that I’m not good at, but it doesn’t mean I don’t want to win at them.”

— Danica Patrick

8. “I’m a good blend of both my mom and dad.”

— Danica Patrick

9. “I’ve never asked for special treatment along the way. And I’m never going to hide the fact that I’m a girl, ever. That’s obvious, isn’t it?”

— Danica Patrick

10. “I’m not tall enough to be a model, but I wish I was 6-foot, because I love it. It’s kind of artsy, and I’m artsy. And I love clothes.”

— Danica Patrick

11. “No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.”

— Danica Patrick

12. “Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.”

— Danica Patrick

13. “If you want to be the best in your industry you need to have a relentless dedication to your job.”

— Danica Patrick

14. “No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.”

— Danica Patrick

15. “People have opinions about everything and especially when you get into that world of animal rights or tree rights or whatever rights, they all have an opinion.”

— Danica Patrick

16. “I didn’t want to fall back. But I realized it was more important to make it to the end under my own power than to run flat out in the lead or in second and then run out of fuel with a lap to go.”

— Danica Patrick

17. “My sister and I would race on the weekends. It was a way for my sister, my mom and me to spend time with my dad. He worked all week and worked a lot so it was a great way for us to spend time as a family and have fun.”

— Danica Patrick

18. “On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program.”

— Danica Patrick

19. “In this society these days, women are widely accepted in all kinds of cross-gender areas. So yeah, it’s time!”

— Danica Patrick

20. “In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You’re trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.”

— Danica Patrick

21. “Every single aspect of myself, let me put it this way, it’s all about trying to incorporate. It’s about trying to weave the web and keep everyone happy. And of course, it’s about giving value to those people so they continue to sponsor me.”

— Danica Patrick

22. “If there’s one great thing I think that’s happened over the years, it’s that women are being accepted into a man’s world in all different areas, whether it’s flying an airplane or driving a race car.”

— Danica Patrick

23. “Being nervous isn’t always the worst thing for me.”

— Danica Patrick

24. “I’m a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that’s great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me.”

— Danica Patrick

25. “Winning is the obvious goal, but it’s not easy. There are so many good drivers and every week is different. I want to win badly, but I understand that it’s going to take hard work. In the meantime I’ll continue to set obtainable goals and do my best both on and off the racetrack.”

— Danica Patrick

26. “I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I’m enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I’ve truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time.”

— Danica Patrick

27. “I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans.”

— Danica Patrick

28. “I never thought I’d be a role model this early. It caught me off-guard, but it says a lot about how I was brought up, what my values have been, and how my parents raised me. It’s very flattering that being myself is enough to be a role model.”

— Danica Patrick

29. “Every time I get into a Nationwide car after being in a Cup car, I feel so much more comfortable than I did previously.”

— Danica Patrick

30. “My boyfriend loves golf and he is good at it but I am not that great at it. It drives me nuts, but I’m super competitive and I always want to win.”

— Danica Patrick

31. “The first Indy was definitely the one I remember. It’s my favorite race I’ve ever done. It’s the most memorable race I’ve ever done, for sure. Even more than when I won. I just remember everything about it.”

— Danica Patrick

32. “To be honest, when I’m home, every day is a Friday for me. It doesn’t really matter what day it is for me. A lot of my friends actually have time off during the week, and so it doesn’t prohibit me from enjoying myself when I am home on a Monday or a Tuesday.”

— Danica Patrick

33. “Together, we can put the brakes on breast cancer...”

— Danica Patrick

34. “Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn’t feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It’s not gone.”

— Danica Patrick

35. “I’m definitely different and I know that.”

— Danica Patrick

36. “Maybe back in the day you didn’t need to be the greatest looking to be on TV and you didn’t need to speak the best, but in this day and age, I think you need to be the package. You need to look the part for your sponsors, you need to be able to speak the part for the media and to big CEOs.”

— Danica Patrick

37. “The mistake I really learned from was in 2005, leading the Indianapolis 500. I had a decision whether or not to save enough fuel to finish the race – which meant slowing down – or going all-out for the win. I went conservative and saved enough fuel to go to the end but finished fourth.”

— Danica Patrick

38. “It looks like I have a thing for dangerous sports, don’t I?”

— Danica Patrick

39. “I would tell kids not be like me, but to try and be better than me. Because I always wanted to be better than everyone I was around. That’s what drove me. I wanted to be better than my role models. I’m super competitive.”

— Danica Patrick

40. “I’d love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it’s not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.”

— Danica Patrick

41. “It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It’s part of the programme.”

— Danica Patrick

42. “I’ve never been bashful to say that I’m not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it’s all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States.”

— Danica Patrick

43. “My first Indy 500 was one of my high points. I ended up qualifying fourth and I finished fourth. I had a win in Japan a few years later, and then qualifying for Daytona was great as well.”

— Danica Patrick

44. “When pressure’s on and when the spotlight’s on, I feel like it ultimately ends up becoming some of my better moments.”

— Danica Patrick

45. “I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It’s been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I’ve been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.”

— Danica Patrick

46. “I never do anything out of my comfort zone.”

— Danica Patrick

47. “At the after-party of the Indy 500, I’m usually wearing jeans and a tank top.”

— Danica Patrick

48. “You know, sometimes the little victories that I have throughout the season are not necessarily obvious on the track. Maybe they’re another aspect of what I’m doing, winning little victories here and there to get everything in line to be able to perform from top to bottom on race day.”

— Danica Patrick

49. “You know, it’s always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.”

— Danica Patrick

50. “I know that England changed me. I became a little bit colder, a little different.”

— Danica Patrick