“You look at Moto3, the races are very exciting. Moto2 is fantastic, and then MotoGP is boring.”

I try to have a different relationship with the bike. I don’t give it a name, but I always speak with it. I don’t know if the other riders do the same. This is not only a piece of metal – there is a soul. The bike talks back too. But not with a voice, with the components.

It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on.

It’s a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine.

The speed is something dangerous but very exciting.

It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on.

You try to do a technical feature: in front of me I had a strong rider who brakes hard and it’s difficult to pass.

I am completely focused on being strong, riding fast, and enjoying myself. With the new generation of riders, only the chronometer counts. I need to be faster than them on track.

Riding a race bike is an art – a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

Giving yourself threads doesn’t mean you don’t believe in yourself in my opinion.

We kept on racing, doing something that Luis [Salom] loved. Fortunately or unfortunately, life goes on.

The tragic incident of Luis Salom reminds us that our sport, our passion, is dangerous. We know it but, in a way, we don’t think about it.

I like physical exercise. I actually like sports in general. I really like snowboarding and playing soccer, too.

Once the races begin it’s more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.

I’m Valentino Rossi. And I want to be a person, not an icon.

Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure.

The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it’s important to develop it during this time.

Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.

I’d love to go on a safari – I’ve never been on a safari.

The open road is the wanderer’s wonderland.

Let’s go on an adventure, oh, the place we will go! and with you by my side, I am always at home.

Lots of the things we do are dangerous, but life itself is dangerous; nothing is really worth bothering with that isn’t full of danger

I’d love to go and camp out and live in a tent in the middle of nowhere and see how long I could live and survive.

The open road is the wanderer’s wonderland.

The truth is – I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven’t had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?