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.
In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it. - Juan Manuel Fangio
In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it.
- Juan Manuel Fangio
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 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.
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
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.
In my day it was 75 percent car and mechanic, 25 percent driver and luck. Today it's 95 percent car. - Juan Manuel Fangio
In my day it was 75 percent car and mechanic, 25 percent driver and luck. Today it's 95 percent car.
There are those who keep out of mischief, and there are the adventurers, ‘ he said. “We racing drivers are adventurers; the more difficult something … - Juan Manuel Fangio
There are those who keep out of mischief, and there are the adventurers, ‘ he said. “We racing drivers are adventurers; the more difficult something …
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… - Juan Manuel Fangio
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…
A crazy man finishes in the cemetery. - Juan Manuel Fangio
A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.
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
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.
You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are. - Juan Manuel Fangio
You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are.
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