The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it’s not the same taste.
VALENTINO ROSSITo be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.
More Valentino Rossi Quotes
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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 am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical.
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Giving yourself threads doesn’t mean you don’t believe in yourself in my opinion.
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We kept on racing, doing something that Luis [Salom] loved. Fortunately or unfortunately, life goes on.
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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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If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.
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I’m done with F1 unfortunately. I’m too old, the train has passed.
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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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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 would have probably stolen cars – it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.
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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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Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn’t have had this passion to be a rider.
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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.
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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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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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