All Quotes

“La pr�ctica es la maestra de todas las cosas.”

“�He representado bien mi papel? Entonces aplaudid mientras salgo.”

“Quien no sabe disimular, no sabe reinar.”

“La juventud debe ser guiada, no castigada.”

“El respeto por las leyes construye imperios duraderos.”

“Un imperio se mantiene con valor, se pierde por la arrogancia.”

“La justicia es el fundamento de todo gobierno.”

“I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.”

“Make haste slowly.”

“What is done well enough is done quickly enough.”

“Practice is the master of all things.”

“Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.”

“Practice is the best of all instructors.”

“We must be friends or enemies. Which will it be?”

“He who does not know how to dissimulate, knows not how to reign.”

“I hope you will understand my hesitation in writing to one whom I admire as the greatest representative of a philosophy to which I want to dedicate my whole life. Letter to H.L. Mencken July 28, 1934.”

“Do you believe in God, Andrei? No. Neither do I. But that's a favorite question of mine. An upside”

“There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it”

“There is only one thing that matters and that we'll remember. The rest doesn't matter. I don't care what life is to be nor what it does to us. But it won't break us. Neither you nor me. That's our only weapon. That's the only banner we can hold against all those others around us. That's all we have to know about the future.”

“The highest thing in a man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. You are my highest reverence. Last Page”

“A moment or an eternity”

“I am. I think. I will.”

“I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.”

“And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I.'”

“Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds, I am not a sacrifice on their altars.”

“I started racing go”

“It's important that the drivers stay together, because in difficult moments we have each other. If we are not together the financial and political interests of the organisers and constructors come to the fore. Interview with TV3 Catalunya, 1987 [2]”

“Racing, competing, is in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I've been doing it all my life. And it stands up before anything else. Interview at the 1989 Australian Grand Prix , November 1989 [3]”

“Whoever you are, no matter what social position you have, rich or poor, always show great strength and determination, and always do everything with much love and deep faith in God . One day you will reach your goal. Interview, 1991 [5]”

“I believe in the ability of focusing strongly in something, then you are able to extract even more out of it. It's been like this all my life, and it's been only a question of improving it, and learning more and more and there is almost no end. As you go through you just keep finding more and more. It's very interesting, it's fascinating. Interview for Racing is in My Blood , 1991 [6]”