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Race Car Driver Inspirational Quotes (511)

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To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.
Valentino Rossi
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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.
Valentino Rossi
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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.
Valentino Rossi
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Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.
Valentino Rossi
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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
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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
Valentino Rossi
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Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.
Valentino Rossi
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Giving yourself threads doesn't mean you don't believe in yourself in my opinion.
Valentino Rossi
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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.
Valentino Rossi
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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?
Valentino Rossi
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Barcelona is a special track. I have always loved the layout of the circuit, but also the atmosphere and the fans are special. It has always been good fun.
Valentino Rossi
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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.
Valentino Rossi
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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.
Valentino Rossi
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Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.
Valentino Rossi
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I am focused on racing. I enjoy it. It's a great feeling to be back fighting for the title.
Valentino Rossi
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Motivation is the key. More than training, more than experience or age, motivation counts. You have to ask yourself: 'Why am I racing?' I race because I like it, because I'm really enjoying it. I like to set up my bike and ride it on track. After 20 years in the GPs I'm still highly motivated. Everything else is a consequence.
Valentino Rossi
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I'm Valentino Rossi. And I want to be a person, not an icon.
Valentino Rossi
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I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.
Valentino Rossi
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If someone was making a movie about F1 in the last six months, they wouldn't need to add a Hollywood ending. If they do make that movie, it's got to be 'The Curious Case Of ,' where I've lived my life backwards. I'd like Johnny Depp to play me but he wouldn't be quite right.
Jenson Button
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My career in racing started at a very young age in California.
Jeff Gordon
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If I ever have a son, and if he wants to follow in my footsteps in Formula 1, my main responsibility will be to point out some of the negatives.
Jenson Button
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Any business you're involved with, and racing is no different, is about people. It's all about people.
Joe Nemechek
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I'm far from perfect. There's a lot of times you'll say something that you regret or do something that you regret and wish you wouldn't have said it or done it.
Matt Kenseth
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That's what faith is - that belief that there's somebody there that's going to help you and push you and be that person that is there for you when you're in your deepest, darkest moment.
Kyle Petty
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