Alex Zanardi
Alex Zanardi

When I returned to the Touring Car championship, I got the team to create a special brake pedal that I could use with my prosthetic leg.

Alex Zanardi
Alex Zanardi

There are times I'm approaching turns with my right hand on the brake lever, I'm downshifting with my fingers, I'm controlling the throttle with my left hand and steering into the corner with only one hand on the wheel. I feel a bit like Jimi Hendrix: I play with both my hands.

Brad Bird
Brad Bird

Making a movie is like you're behind the wheel, and you're driving through the obstacle course, and the pedal is down, and you can't brake.

Brian Krzanich
Brian Krzanich

A lot of our work at Intel was on the automotive side: in the head unit, engine, and brake controllers.

Dan Buettner
Dan Buettner

The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.

Fatih Birol
Fatih Birol

Fossil fuel subsidies are a hand brake as we drive along the road to a sustainable energy future.

Frankie Edgar
Frankie Edgar

You always have to play it safe, no matter who you're fighting. I don't fight any easy guys. I haven't maybe ever in the UFC. To me, you've always got to be safe. But I don't want to have my foot on the brake at all. My foot is going to be on the gas, and I'm going to be smart at everything.

Gro Harlem Brundtland
Gro Harlem Brundtland

This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries.

Guo Guangchang
Guo Guangchang

You have to maintain the balance between fast growth and smooth growth. It's like driving a car and knowing when to balance the gas pedal and the brake.

Jane Levy
Jane Levy

I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but she had to pull the emergency brake so obviously there was a problem. I remember them handing me my fail paper and me just bursting into tears.