Juan Manuel Fangio famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are.
-- Juan Manuel Fangio

#Believe #Being The Best #Strive
You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.
-- Juan Manuel Fangio

#Passion #Needs #Pleasure
I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.
-- Juan Manuel Fangio

#Games #Racing #Balls
The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand.
-- Juan Manuel Fangio

#Hands #Car #Racing
Driving fast on the track does not scare me. What scares me is when I drive on the highway I get passed by some idiot who thinks he is Fangio.
-- Juan Manuel Fangio

#Thinking #Track #Scare
Women rule our lives, don't they?
-- Juan Manuel Fangio
Everything has changed. When I was at school and was told I had better learn English, I said: What for? The English are a hell of a long way away!
-- Juan Manuel Fangio

#School #Long #Way
When I raced with Mercedes, I thought Id learn German. But my wife didnt want to live in Germany.
-- Juan Manuel Fangio

#Wife #Germany #Want
There are those who keep out of mischief, and there are the adventurers, â€˜ he said. â€œWe racing drivers are adventurers; the more difficult something is, the greater the attraction that comes from it.
-- Juan Manuel Fangio

#Racing #Said #Difficult
When I first came out of Argentina to Europe, the flight took 36 hours. Now it takes 12 hours, and the world is still shrinking.
-- Juan Manuel Fangio

#Europe #Argentina #Shrinking
In my day it was 75 percent car and mechanic, 25 percent driver and luck. Today it's 95 percent car.
-- Juan Manuel Fangio

#Car #Luck #Today
Never think of your car as a cold machine, but as a hot-blooded horse.
-- Juan Manuel Fangio

#Horse #Thinking #Car
In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it.
-- Juan Manuel Fangio

#Italian #Littles #Speak
A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.
-- Juan Manuel Fangio

#Crazy #Men #Cemetery
I told my nephew that if he wanted to get on in motor racing, the first thing he should do was master English. Thank goodness he now speaks it.
-- Juan Manuel Fangio

#Nephew #Racing #Firsts

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