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.
VALENTINO ROSSIMaybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn’t have had this passion to be a rider.
More Valentino Rossi Quotes
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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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I’m really happy, and beating Marc [Marquez] at the very last chicane gives me an extra boost.
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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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It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on.
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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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In 2002 the Yamaha was at more or less the same level as the Honda, better in some ways, worse in others. But in the winter of last year between 2002 and 2003, Honda made a big step forward and it seemed as if Yamaha couldn’t quite match that improvement.
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How do Ferrari know what I’m doing next year when I don’t know what I’m doing next week?
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I don’t like being famous – it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
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The speed is something dangerous but very exciting.
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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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The speed is something dangerous but very exciting.
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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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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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We kept on racing, doing something that Luis [Salom] loved. Fortunately or unfortunately, life goes on.
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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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