Juan Manuel Fangio Quotes

A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.

Juan Manuel Fangio

• Crazy
• Cemetery
• Finishes

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

• Racing
• Finesse
• Billiards

There are those who keep out of mischief, and there are the adventurers, ‘ he said. “We racing drivers are adventurers; the more difficult something is, the greater the attraction that comes from it.

Juan Manuel Fangio

• Attraction
• Drivers
• Adventurers

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

• Hand
• Damaged
• Gear

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

• English
• Racing
• Speaks

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

Juan Manuel Fangio

• Believe
• Best
• Strive

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

Juan Manuel Fangio

• Think
• Car
• Horse

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

• Driving
• Track
• Drive on

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

Juan Manuel Fangio

• Car
• Driver
• Mechanic

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

Juan Manuel Fangio

• Passion
• Need
• Pleasure