“That I didn't belong. The other racers looked nothing like me. You know, they-they were bigger, and-and stronger, and so... confident. And when they started their engines... that was it. I knew I'd never be a racer. I just left. It was my one shot, and I didn't take it.”
"My electronic personal assistant. You know, like on your phone. You have a phone, don't you?"
- Cruz Ramirez
Awareness
"I used to watch you on TV, flying through the air. You seemed so fearless. I wish I knew what that felt like."
- Cruz Ramirez
Inspiration
"It's all about motivation, Mr. McQueen. You can use anything negative as fuel to push through to the positive!"
- Cruz Ramirez
Motivation
"The beach ate me."
- Cruz Ramirez
Adversity
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity