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The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it’s not the same taste.

Valentino Rossi

Once the races begin it’s more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.
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Beginning Difficult Race Time
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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Calm Dangerous Focus Leaving Life Need Ourselves Peace Risk Sports Stay
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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Best Career Chance Change Myself Possible Race Result Try
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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Feeling Goodness Luck Myself Positive Pressure Race
I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.
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Father Lucky Myself Passion Young
We have the 2004 M1 here for reference, which is useful. It worked well here last year; we won the race and always did fast lap times so it will be interesting to compare it to the new bike and it will help us to understand which parts have improved.
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Improvement Race Time Understand Win Work
I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.
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Myself Race Win
I’m really happy, and beating Marc [Marquez] at the very last chicane gives me an extra boost.
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Defeat Excitement Happiness Myself
If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.
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Competition Myself Quite Season
You look at Moto3, the races are very exciting. Moto2 is fantastic, and then MotoGP is boring.
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Adventure Boredom Excitement Yourself
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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Different Myself Pieces Relationship Soul Talk Try
I’m Valentino Rossi. And I want to be a person, not an icon.
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Identity Myself Person
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.
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Development Important Time Work
But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more.
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Love Myself Option Start
The speed is something dangerous but very exciting.
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Dangerous Excitement Speed
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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