Top 80 Murray Walker Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Somebody said once ‘Follow the money’ and that is what it is all about.”

— Murray Walker

2. “There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.”

— Murray Walker

3. “This would have been Senna’s third win a row if he’d won the two before.”

— Murray Walker

4. “I don’t make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.”

— Murray Walker

5. “And here comes Mika Hakkinen, double world champion twice over.”

— Murray Walker

6. “Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna’s Lotus sounding rough?”

— Murray Walker

7. “The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.”

— Murray Walker

8. “And there’s no damage to the car. Except to the car itself.”

— Murray Walker

9. “It’s lap 26 of 58, which unless I’m very much mistaken is half way.”

— Murray Walker

10. “And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing.”

— Murray Walker

11. “Michael Schumacher is leading Michael Schumacher.”

— Murray Walker

12. “You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.”

— Murray Walker

13. “Andrea De Cesaris, the man who has won more Grands Prix than anybody else in the history of Grand Prix racing without actually winning one of them.”

— Murray Walker

14. “With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go.”

— Murray Walker

15. “I was there when I said it.”

— Murray Walker

16. “And now Jacques Laffitte is as close to Surer as Surer is to Laffitte.”

— Murray Walker

17. “A mediocre season for Nelson Piquet as he is now known and always has been.”

— Murray Walker

18. “Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th.”

— Murray Walker

19. “Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him.”

— Murray Walker

20. “Tombay’s hopes, which were nil before, are absolutely zero now.”

— Murray Walker

21. “The gap between the two cars is 0.9 of a second, which is less than one second.”

— Murray Walker

22. “As you can see, visually, with your eyes.”

— Murray Walker

23. “It all comes down to money.”

— Murray Walker

24. “Ukyo Katayama is undoubtedly the best Formula One driver that Grand Prix racing has ever produced.”

— Murray Walker

25. “I was often in the pit lane the noise was indescribable and I’ve no doubt that is why my hearing was affected.”

— Murray Walker

26. “Mansell can see him in his earphone.”

— Murray Walker

27. “We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite.”

— Murray Walker

28. “You might not think that’s cricket, and it’s not, it’s motor racing.”

— Murray Walker

29. “I’ve no idea what Eddie Irvine’s orders are, but he’s following them superlatively well.”

— Murray Walker

30. “The European drivers have adapted to this circuit extremely quickly, especially Paul Radisich who’s a New Zealander.”

— Murray Walker

31. “Jenson Button is in the top ten, in eleventh position.”

— Murray Walker

32. “That’s the first time he had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in Canada earlier this year.”

— Murray Walker

33. “I wonder if Watson is in the relaxed state of mind he’s in.”

— Murray Walker

34. “As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto is fifth.”

— Murray Walker

35. “Speaking from memory, I don’t know how many points Nelson Piquet has...”

— Murray Walker

36. “Ferrari leads, McLaren second, McLaren second, Jordan third, and Benneton fifth and sixth.”

— Murray Walker

37. “Just under 10 seconds for Nigel Mansell. Call it 9.5 seconds in round numbers.”

— Murray Walker

38. “That’s history. I say history because it happened in the past.”

— Murray Walker

39. “And he’s done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures.”

— Murray Walker

40. “There are four different cars filling the first four places.”

— Murray Walker

41. “Alboreto has dropped back up to fifth place.”

— Murray Walker

42. “Rally points scoring is twenty for the fastest, eighteen for the second fastest, right down to six points for the slowest fastest.”

— Murray Walker

43. “This circuit is interesting because it has inclines and declines. Not just up, but down as well.”

— Murray Walker

44. “And there’s the man in the green flag!”

— Murray Walker

45. “I can’t imagine what kind of problem Senna has. I imagine it must be some sort of grip problem.”

— Murray Walker

46. “And Michael Schumacher is 37 seconds ahead, so he can refuel the car, change all four wheels, take off his helmet, have a smoke and a cup of tea, and rejoin in first.”

— Murray Walker

47. “Let’s stop the startwatch.”

— Murray Walker

48. “And Damon Hill is following Damon Hill.”

— Murray Walker

49. “Look up there! That’s the sky!”

— Murray Walker

50. “Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does.”

— Murray Walker