152 Quotes by Valentino Rossi

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.

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

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.

In my opinion we are at the limit now, and 17 races is really too much. With all the testing that we do now, it means we’re always on the bike and it’s quite difficult.

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.

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, and we start with this test.

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.

You can tell people you fell because the bike didn’t follow the trajectory it was supposed to follow, or tell them that you are actually really fast, but the bike simply isn’t. inside you, however, you know the truth. You know you fell off because you made a mistake, or because your opponent is simply faster than you.