Valentino Rossi Quotes - Page 2

To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.

You look at Moto3, the races are very exciting. Moto2 is fantastic, and then MotoGP is boring.

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.

Nowadays, we have to deal with so many more factors that weren't there in the past. It's not enough to be a good rider, if you want to finish at the front. The riders have become incredible athletes. In the past, you could manage the race and fight only on the last laps. Now you need to train hard. You cannot allow yourself to go on track without being at 100 percent.

It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on

How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?

You need a combination of many things to get good results. Experience is one of these, and it can be very useful at the right moment. I don't know if it helps to go faster, but for sure it's an important element that has helped me a lot. Being experienced helps you to make fewer mistakes when you are on track. This is the positive side for being around for so many years!

We kept on racing, doing something that Luis [Salom] loved. Fortunately or unfortunately, life goes on.

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.

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.

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

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical.

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.

It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine.

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.

I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.

Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.

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.

I like physical exercise. I actually like sports in general. I really like snowboarding and playing soccer, too.

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.

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.

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.

Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.

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.