Racing driver Quotes

If a person has no dreams, they no longer have any reason to live.

Dreaming is necessary, although in the dream reality should be glimpsed. For me this is a principle of life.

There's a lie that all drivers tell themselves.

Death is something that happens to other people, and that's how you find the courage to get in the car in the first place. The closer you are to death the more alive you feel. But more powerful than fear itself, is the will to win.

If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver.

I believe that we start to see our true personalities when we go through the most difficult moments. This is when we get stronger

Whoever you are, no matter what social position you have, rich or poor, always show great strength and determination, and always do everything with much love and deep faith in God. One day you will reach your goal.

As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

Don't go to men who are willing to kill themselves driving in circles looking for normality.

You commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise.

You give everything you have, everything, absolutely everything.

With regard to performance, commitment, effort, dedication, there is no middle ground. Or you do something very well or not at all.

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

I want to live fully, very intensely.

I would never want to live partially, suffering from illness or injury. If I ever happen to have an accident that eventually costs my life, I hope it happens in one instant.

To hell with safety. All I want to do is race.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race.

The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

If you're in control, you're not going fast enough.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty.

We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.

The harder I push, the more I find within myself.

I am always looking for the next step, a different world to go into, areas where I have not been before. It's lonely driving a Grand Prix car, but very absorbing. I have experienced new sensations, and I want more. That is my excitement, my motivation.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously.

I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

You want to climb the mountain because it’s there and you know you can do it.

This is a very fashionable charge to bring against a company.

This is one of the consequences, in this country, of being in the Internet industry. I think it's quite scandalous, they brought the weakest charges they had.

Once you are in it you are in it, you have to go all the way to the end because you commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise. You give everything you have absolutely everything. Sometimes you find even more because you require more if you want to stay ahead and you want to win.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

You accomplish victory step by step, not by leaps and bounds.

I don't know driving in another way which isn't risky.

Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other's.

If you think I'm fast, just wait until you see my nephew Bruno.

This isn't higher education studying itself.

There are a lot of higher education people here. But there are also people here who are directly involved in whether or not (the United States is) going to have the good jobs in the future.

Because in a split second, it's gone.

Your luck goes up and down like swings and roundabouts

When you are making a success of something, it's not work.

It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

This isn't higher education studying itself.

When I started racing my father told me, 'Cristiano, nobody has three balls but some people have two very good ones.'

And luckily, therefore the good old days return.

The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.

Be warned that being an expert is more than understanding how a system is supposed to work. Expertise is gained by investigating why a system doesn't work.

The worst nightmare would be not to achieve what I know I'm capable of.

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

How many mistakes were made that we don?t know about.

The perfect life is the combination of great moments and bad ones, and under that point of view, my life is fantastic, because I've certainly hit more than one bump.

We thought these incidents warranted a third-party investigation.

It will give us some outside expertise and a more global look at the problem.

Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

I believe if you are doing something like competing, like motor racing, you either do well or forget it.

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.

Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than others.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.

Loads of overtaking is boring. You go fishing and you catch a fish every ten minutes and it's boring. But if you site there all day, and you catch one mega fish, you come back with stories that you caught a fish this big (indicates a big fish), intead of this size (indicating a small fish)

Building awareness and responsibility is the essence of good coaching.

Just because I believe in God, just because I have faith in God, it doesn't mean that I'm immune. It doesn't mean that I'm immortal.