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Once the races begin it’s more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.

Valentino Rossi

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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Defeat Enjoyment Enough Motivational Race Record Try Yourself
Riding a race bike is an art – a thing that you do because you feel something inside.
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Art Feeling Race Ride Yourself
We kept on racing, doing something that Luis [Salom] loved. Fortunately or unfortunately, life goes on.
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Life Love Race
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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Change Different Dreams Myself Team Win
I am focused on racing. I enjoy it. It’s a great feeling to be back fighting for the title.
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Enjoyment Feeling Fight Focus Greatness Myself Race
To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.
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Greatness Important Passion Race
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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Career Enjoyment Motivational Myself Need Win
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
You try to do a technical feature: in front of me I had a strong rider who brakes hard and it’s difficult to pass.
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Difficult Hard Myself Ride Strong 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
To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.
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Competition Hard Need Race Time Win
I like physical exercise. I actually like sports in general. I really like snowboarding and playing soccer, too.
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Exercise Myself Play Sports
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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Myself Positive Ride Strategy Thinking
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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Appearance Design Expression Fashion Friendship Live Personality Ride
It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on.
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Believe Dangerous Different Kind Myself Race
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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Chance Easy Goodness Myself People Race Start
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
The tragic incident of Luis Salom reminds us that our sport, our passion, is dangerous. We know it but, in a way, we don’t think about it.
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Dangerous Passion Sports Thinking Tragedy
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
I would have probably stolen cars – it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.
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Adventure Myself Race Theft
The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it’s not the same taste.
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Competition Easy Fight Greatness Rival Strong Taste Yourself
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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Goodness Important Myself Relationship Sound Thinking True Understand Woman
If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.
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Competition Myself Quite Season
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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Happiness Joy Live Memories Myself Positive Race Remember Win World
Giving yourself threads doesn’t mean you don’t believe in yourself in my opinion.
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Believe Myself Opinion Yourself
It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on.
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Believe Dangerous Different Kind Myself Race
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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Achievement Better Big Improvement Quite Way Winter Worst

Once the races begin it’s more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.

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