Fangio Quotes

#1. 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. - Author: Juan Manuel Fangio

#2. 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! - Author: Juan Manuel Fangio

#3. A crazy man finishes in the cemetery. - Author: Juan Manuel Fangio

#4. I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.
-W.A. Clark, ascribed - Author: Bill Dedman

#5. 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? - Author: Zach Braff

#6. Women rule our lives, don't they? - Author: Juan Manuel Fangio

#7. 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. - Author: Juan Manuel Fangio

#8. Doing something brave is much like saying something stupid. You rarely plan on it happening. - Author: Brandon Sanderson

#9. 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. - Author: Eknath Easwaran

#10. Give yourself pleasure; see your friends; go to the movies. - Author: Jennifer Grey

#11. In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it. - Author: Juan Manuel Fangio

#12. You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well. - Author: Juan Manuel Fangio

#13. Juan Fangio was the great man of racing, whilst Stirling Moss was the epitome of a racing driver. - Author: Jackie Stewart

#14. He's just not that into you if he is a sociopath. - Author: Coco J. Ginger

#15. Never think of your car as a cold machine, but as a hot-blooded horse. - Author: Juan Manuel Fangio

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

#17. The best classroom of all times was about two car lengths behind Juan Manuel Fangio. - Author: Stirling Moss

#18. Try jogging when following your heart, it's healthier - Author: Benny Bellamacina

#19. I was lucky enough at Stanford to have Vic Fangio as the defensive coordinator for a year, and then Jason Tarver. - Author: Andrew Luck

#20. 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. - Author: Juan Manuel Fangio

#21. 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. - Author: Juan Manuel Fangio

#22. The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire. - Author: Eve Ensler

#23. 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. - Author: Ashley N. Sauls

#24. 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. - Author: Anthony Horowitz

#25. 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. - Author: Charles Dickens

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

#27. 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. - Author: Juan Manuel Fangio

#28. When I raced with Mercedes, I thought I'd learn German. But my wife didn't want to live in Germany. - Author: Juan Manuel Fangio