Top 30 Manuel Fangio Quotes
#1. The best classroom of all times was about two car lengths behind Juan Manuel Fangio.
Stirling Moss
#2. 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
#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
#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.
Juan Manuel Fangio
#9. I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
Queen Elizabeth II
#10. In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it.
Juan Manuel Fangio
#11. This is what it means to get old, you don't look forward to pleasure so much as easing pain.
Philipp Meyer
#12. Christmas Eve Saint Francis and Saint Benedight Blesse this house from wicked wight; From the night-mare and the goblin, That is hight good fellow Robin: Keep it from all evil spirits, Fairies, weezels, rats, and ferrets: From curfew time To the next prime.
Thomas Cartwright
#13. You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.
Juan Manuel Fangio
#14. I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#15. Your allegiance is with your spouse; you cannot break that by showing allegiance to your ex-spouse.
Connie Sellecca
#16. I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.
Julian Fellowes
#17. That to expect bad people not to injure others is crazy. It's to ask the impossible. And to let them behave like that to other people but expect them to exempt you is arrogant
the act of a tyrant.
Marcus Aurelius
#18. In my day it was 75 percent car and mechanic, 25 percent driver and luck. Today it's 95 percent car.
Juan Manuel Fangio
#19. A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.
Art Spiegelman
#20. His voice gave out and he made several wavy motions with his hand, indicative of the shape of a woman who would probably be unable to keep her balance.
Terry Pratchett
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.
Jonas Salk
#24. A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.
John Cage
#25. You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are.
Juan Manuel Fangio
#26. 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
#27. When I raced with Mercedes, I thought I'd learn German. But my wife didn't want to live in Germany.
Juan Manuel Fangio
#28. You don't even wish for the success that I had, because you don't think it's attainable.
Tom DeLonge
#29. Robert E. Lee Prewitt. Isn't that a silly old name.
Donna Reed
#30. Never think of your car as a cold machine, but as a hot-blooded horse.
Juan Manuel Fangio
