Fittipaldi Emerson Quotes

#1. I wanted to be the best in the world.

Emerson Fittipaldi

#2. Indy car racing is much more aggressive.

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#3. To race Formula three is very high risk and I am not going to take a chance. Thank god I am not doing it!

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#4. I know if someone is coming from my right side. I could feel it.

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#5. I go to see grand prix every year, and I watch every race on TV for sure. I probably go to three or four CART races and three or four Formula One races.

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#6. Everything happened very quickly in my career. It was a very great honor for me to break Jim Clarks record (as youngest champion),

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#7. I was extremely lucky. I had some huge crashes and yet I am still here, thanks to God.

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#8. This sounds idiotic, but every time I encounter a picture of myself I am shocked to have been seen. I do not, under ordinary circumstances, feel seen.

Lionel Shriver

#9. You have to visualize a second or two ahead of your car what line you are taking, what you are going to do, before you get there because it comes too fast.

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#10. I do not speak the English so good, but then I speak the driving very well.

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#11. I was extremely aggressive from the start.

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#12. I think with new president Chris Pook of CART, he is very active and strong.

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#13. When I came to America Al Unser, Jr. was very difficult. And Bobby Unser.

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#14. Opportunities don't knock at all. They don't have to, they're already all around us. It's up to us to see where they are and take advantage of them.

Dave Thomas

#15. Sports is a way of entertainment, to people who are in different backgrounds, and for people who dedicated their lives to achieve the best in sports.

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#16. You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means you brain is receiving information from your body what the car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.

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#17. I based in Brazil, Sao Paulo, but I come very often to the states, and I travel all over the world.

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#18. You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race.

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#19. you were
and always will be

that first ever touch
to have fertilized
the ground
beneath my life's trees

that first ever rose
to have fragranced
the rest of my memories.

Sanober Khan

#20. Open your eyes: Each new day, in itself, has a secret.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#21. Also, I am very religious. It gave me peace of mind all my career.

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#22. Gary Smith, when I came to America, taught me a great deal about racing.

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#23. There are many young talents in Brazil. There is a lot of hope in Felipe Massa. It is very difficult to judge him in his first year, but by the end of the end we are going to have a better position how he does in Formula One.

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#24. I am very happy because motor racing is very important outside the states, very big all over the world.

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#25. I have to accept risk as a racing driver.

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#26. A racing driver has to be a good driver.

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#27. The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.

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#28. I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope - the door of opportunity - is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. Such an attitude would, according to my convictions, be fundamentally wrong.

Theodore Roosevelt