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To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.

Valentino Rossi

The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it’s true.
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Our sport is dangerous. We risk the life out there, so we need to stay calm and focused and leave all the rest out.
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It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on.
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My approach to the races hasn’t changed in my 20-year career. If I have the chance to attack and to pass, I do it, trying to get the best possible result.
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I’m really happy, and beating Marc [Marquez] at the very last chicane gives me an extra boost.
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I feel 100% a Yamaha rider in my heart. I had a long career and raced with several factory bikes, but the highlight of my career is undoubtedly with Yamaha.
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I’m very happy because I won a lot. I’ve won races and lived in a world that just gave me joy, so I remember it very positively.
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I have designs I like applied to my helmet, motorcycle, riding suits, gloves,and boots. I have a designer friend of mine put the designs on them for me. I think a livery on the helmet is significant in expressing a rider’s personality.
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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.
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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.
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Giving yourself threads doesn’t mean you don’t believe in yourself in my opinion.
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I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.
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Once the races begin it’s more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.
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I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.
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I’m Valentino Rossi. And I want to be a person, not an icon.
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You look at Moto3, the races are very exciting. Moto2 is fantastic, and then MotoGP is boring.
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But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more.
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Riding a race bike is an art – a thing that you do because you feel something inside.
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I’m done with F1 unfortunately. I’m too old, the train has passed.
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I like physical exercise. I actually like sports in general. I really like snowboarding and playing soccer, too.
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I’m lucky because I don’t feel too much pressure – it’s only in the last hour before the race, and even then it’s good, positive pressure.
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Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.
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Barcelona is a special track. I have always loved the layout of the circuit, but also the atmosphere and the fans are special. It has always been good fun.
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The speed is something dangerous but very exciting.
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn’t have had this passion to be a rider.
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Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.
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