Valentino Rossi Quotes about Sports

Our sport is dangerous. We risk the life out there, so we need to stay calm and focused and leave all the rest out.

You need to realise that, if you want to go on, you have to work hard. If you dwell too much on your past successes and say "well, I have won nine world titles and more than 100 races", you'd rather stay home. The sport, your rivals, the tyres, your motorcycle, everything changes so instead you need to work more to be stronger. If you don't, you're finished.

I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.

I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.

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

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 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 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.

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.

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.

But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more.