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.
VALENTINO ROSSIIf I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.
More Valentino Rossi Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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 am still here because I like to prove myself. I still like to ride the bike on track and enjoy the races. I still have good reasons to be in racing after so many years.
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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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The speed is something dangerous but very exciting.
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I’m done with F1 unfortunately. I’m too old, the train has passed.
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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 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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If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.
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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 Valentino Rossi. And I want to be a person, not an icon.
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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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