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Juan Manuel Fangio Quotes:

Juan Manuel Fangio quotes

Ocupation: Race car driver

Life: June 24, 1911 - July 17, 1995

Birthday: June 24

Death: July 17

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

Topics: Believe, Being The Best, Strive, Motorsports

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You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.

Topics: 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.

Topics: Games, Racing, Balls, Finesse, Billiards

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.

Topics: Hands, Car, Racing, Steering

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.

Topics: Thinking, Track, Scare, Driving Fast, Car Racing

Women rule our lives, don't they?

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!

Topics: School, Long, Way

When I raced with Mercedes, I thought Id learn German. But my wife didnt want to live in Germany.

Topics: Wife, Germany, Want

There are those who keep out of mischief, and there are the adventurers, ‘ he said. “We racing drivers are adventurers; the more difficult something is, the greater the attraction that comes from it.

Topics: Racing, Said, Difficult, Racing Driver

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.

Topics: Europe, Argentina, Shrinking

In my day it was 75 percent car and mechanic, 25 percent driver and luck. Today it's 95 percent car.

Topics: Car, Luck, Today

Never think of your car as a cold machine, but as a hot-blooded horse.

Topics: Horse, Thinking, Car, Race Car, Horse Racing

In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it.

Topics: Italian, Littles, Speak

A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.

Topics: Crazy, Men, Cemetery, Crazy Man

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.

Topics: Nephew, Racing, Firsts, Motor Racing

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