Juan Manuel Fangio Quotes

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

Stirling Moss

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

Juan Manuel Fangio

#3. 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

#4. A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.

Juan Manuel Fangio

#5. A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.

Richie Benaud

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

Juan Manuel Fangio

#7. How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?

Alice Sebold

#8. 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

#9. 1. Is anything impossible for the grace of God? Suppose you bring a light into a room that has been dark a thousand years; does it remove the darkness little by little? The room is lighted all at once. Intense renunciation is what is needed.

Ramakrishna

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

Juan Manuel Fangio

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

Juan Manuel Fangio

#12. I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point?

Steve Martin

#13. 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

#14. I think it [Blu-ray] has 5 years left, I certainly wouldn't give it 10,

Andy Griffiths

#15. Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.

Carine Roitfeld

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. I like getting on my high horse. I look good on it. Like a knight ...

Dan Miller

#19. Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.

Ron Paul

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

Juan Manuel Fangio

#21. 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

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

Juan Manuel Fangio

#23. Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.

Viktor E. Frankl

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

Juan Manuel Fangio

#25. No one wants to see cool people doing brilliantly. I want to see the struggle. That's the fun bit.

Ricky Gervais

#26. My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough.' That became my mantra.

Michael Fassbender