Fangio Quotes

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

Juan Manuel Fangio

#2. When I raced with Mercedes, I thought I'd learn German. But my wife didn't want to live in Germany.

Juan Manuel Fangio

#3. 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

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

Juan Manuel Fangio

#5. All the passengers are very dismal, and seem to have tremendous secrets weighing on their minds. There is no conversation, no laughter, no cheerfulness, no sociality, except in spitting; and that is done in silent fellowship round the stove, when the meal is over.

Charles Dickens

#6. Fangio had once said: 'You should never think of a car as a piece of metal. It's a living being with a heart that beats. It can feel happy or sad. It all depends on how you treat it.

Anthony Horowitz

#7. Harboring envy is saying to God that how He fashioned you in not good enough. Let it go. Embrace who you were created to be.

Ashley N. Sauls

#8. The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire.

Eve Ensler

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. I was lucky enough at Stanford to have Vic Fangio as the defensive coordinator for a year, and then Jason Tarver.

Andrew Luck

#12. Try jogging when following your heart, it's healthier

Benny Bellamacina

#13. The best classroom of all times was about two car lengths behind Juan Manuel Fangio.

Stirling Moss

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

Juan Manuel Fangio

#15. 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

#16. He's just not that into you if he is a sociopath.

Coco J. Ginger

#17. Juan Fangio was the great man of racing, whilst Stirling Moss was the epitome of a racing driver.

Jackie Stewart

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

Juan Manuel Fangio

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

Juan Manuel Fangio

#20. Give yourself pleasure; see your friends; go to the movies.

Jennifer Grey

#21. We look at the world through our likes and dislikes, hopes and fears, opinions and judgments. We want everyone to behave as we think they should; otherwise we get agitated. But we are here to accept the world as it is, even as we work to make it better.

Eknath Easwaran

#22. Doing something brave is much like saying something stupid. You rarely plan on it happening.

Brandon Sanderson

#23. 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

#24. Women rule our lives, don't they?

Juan Manuel Fangio

#25. When I was told they wanted the show to be about doctors, I was a bit reluctant to sign on, you know? I thought, why have a show about doctors when we could have a show about the real heroes, you know, like me?

Zach Braff

#26. I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.
-W.A. Clark, ascribed

Bill Dedman

#27. A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.

Juan Manuel Fangio

#28. 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