Kimi Raikkonen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If I could throw my phone away, I would probably do it. It's always on silent, and I don't like when it rings and people are calling. We could live without those things in the past when we just had a phone on the street somewhere, on the corner or at the house. I have no interest in telling all the people what I do every day and where I am.
-- Kimi Raikkonen

#Past #Phones #People
When I did some Nascar races this year I noticed that I was increasingly missing the racing side, to race against each other, because in rallying you really race against the clock.
-- Kimi Raikkonen

#Race #Years #Missing
Im winning races, Im still challenging for the world championships, the team is fantastic and I have a great relationship with everybody here - so why would I want to even consider changing?
-- Kimi Raikkonen

#Team #Winning #Race
Ha, some days ago the same people were one hundred per cent sure that I'd signed for Red Bull! So much for that.
-- Kimi Raikkonen

#People #Bulls #Red
Ive just got to do a good job and stay on in Formula One for as long as I can.
-- Kimi Raikkonen

#Jobs #Long #Good Job
The helmet has a special meaning for many drivers. How important is it to you? - It protects my head.
-- Kimi Raikkonen

#Special #Important #Protect
Formula 1 would be a paradise without the media.
-- Kimi Raikkonen

#Media #Would Be #Paradise
Iâ€™m not interested in what people think about me. Iâ€™m not Michael Schumacher.
-- Kimi Raikkonen

#Thinking #People #Schumacher
Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.
-- Kimi Raikkonen

#Ambition #Champion #Racing
Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won't work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy.
-- Kimi Raikkonen

#Being Yourself #Trying
For sure, sometimes I don't know what I am doing.
-- Kimi Raikkonen

#Sometimes
My time in the World Rally Championship has been a useful stage in my career, but I can't deny the fact that my hunger for F1 has recently become overwhelming.
-- Kimi Raikkonen

#Careers #World #Facts
When I was a kid, I would watch the grands prix. Everyone dreamt of becoming a race driver, while I only started thinking about it when I was 18 or 19. Only at that age did I seriously start thinking about this job. Before then, I would change ideas from one second to the next.
-- Kimi Raikkonen

#Jobs #Kids #Thinking
In rallying every curve, every hill may be different than you thought. That makes it interesting.
-- Kimi Raikkonen

#Curves #Interesting #Different
Driving is the only thing I love about F1.
-- Kimi Raikkonen

#Driving
I'm happy, but there's nothing to jump around about.
-- Kimi Raikkonen
Where I went off, you can get back on the track by going through the support race pitlane, but you have to go through a gate. I know this as I did the same thing in 2001 and the gate was open that year. Somebody closed it this time. Next year, I'll make sure it's open again.
-- Kimi Raikkonen

#Race #Years #Track
You always want to have a winning car, but there is no guarantee that it will be.
-- Kimi Raikkonen

#Winning #Car #Guarantees
I just love the American spirit of racing. It feels just great to get involved with that.
-- Kimi Raikkonen

#Racing #Spirit #Get Involved
There's always a lot of talk about motivation to race, but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart from myself, so I don't really care what people think.
-- Kimi Raikkonen

#Motivation #Thinking #Race
Since I started in motor racing I've worked with people from all over the world. We are all here to go racing and prejudice will never play any part in that.
-- Kimi Raikkonen

#Play #People #Racing
I'm delighted to be coming back to Formula 1 after a two-year break, and I'm grateful to Lotus Renault GP for offering me this opportunity.
-- Kimi Raikkonen

#Grateful #Opportunity #Gps
It was an easy choice to return with Lotus Renault GP as I have been impressed by the scope of the team's ambition.
-- Kimi Raikkonen

#Team #Ambition #Gps
In F1 too many things overshadow the racing. There is too much politics.
-- Kimi Raikkonen

#Racing #Too Much
You donâ€™t drive races on paper.
-- Kimi Raikkonen

#Race #Paper

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