Valentino Rossi Quotes (66 Quotes)

I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.

Unfortunately, Sete had a problem, which was bad luck for him because he should have been on the podium. Anyway, this is a good win for me and now I just need one more for the title. But it is not over yet.

Our bike worked really well when we went to Qatar for pre-season testing so we hope that this will be the case again.

I lost control of my bike. I was in second and fell to ninth but was able to get back to second place and pick up some important points.

The bike gives me a good feeling. Also the engine is very smooth in acceleration so I'm happy. And it's just the first day, we have another two days and we hope to do good work.

For sure, it's possible to win the championship. There's always more pressure than normal, but we try to win this race like we do in other races.

It's great to equal Mick's record but the numbers are not the most important thing today because this win was a great emotion after my problems with the crash in the first race and some vibration problems with my new bike.

They've made some modifications here over the last couple of years including resurfacing, bigger run-off areas and better curbing,

So, 11 victories is fantastic and always race in this track is different, is magic, ... I win a lot of times here, a lot of important races for my career and I love this track.

In my opinion we are at the limit now, and 17 races is really too much. With all the testing that we do now, it means we're always on the bike and it's quite difficult.

To be honest I didn't expect Casey to be so strong at the beginning of the season and he is doing a very good job on the Honda.

For sure tomorrow will be difficult. We are still struggling with stability and grip.

I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.

I was quite confident for pole position because the team have done a great job with the bike this weekend and it worked well from yesterday,

Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.

Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure.

Today was a strange day because we all came back from the holidays and it felt like everybody was still in the beach rhythm

We made some modifications in order to improve the acceleration and unfortunately we lost a lot of grip in braking.

Did the fact that 2004 was so (relatively) easy to win the championship make Ferrari a little bit more complacent going into 2005, and following on from that, does this year being so difficult, make the team tougher and ready for 2006

If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.

I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.

As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.

Starting from the third row will make life difficult tomorrow as it will be hard to overtake,

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

Before that everyone thinks you must ride Honda to become world champion. Yamaha had not won the championship for a very long time.

I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.

In 2002 the Yamaha was at more or less the same level as the Honda, better in some ways, worse in others. But in the winter of last year between 2002 and 2003, Honda made a big step forward and it seemed as if Yamaha couldn't quite match that improvement.

How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?

We had a gearbox problem this morning ... so we probably lost about 15 minutes of the session,

It is a big problem and so I don't know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari.

I'm happy because the bike worked well. I was confident of a pole position but Nicky set a fantastic lap time ... and second position for tomorrow is not so bad.

For sure, this is a magic circuit for me, ... I have had some great, great battles here in the past.

They were two intense and interesting days. I turned a lot of kilometers and began to understand how the car works,

Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.

I thought it was possible but then I decided it was too risky and after that I knew that the lap was gone and I had lost my advantage.

It has been an amazing season and today we have won the constructors' title for Yamaha...so I am very happy,

I saw the F1 race on the television and the circuit looked like a lot of fun...it is a new challenge but also a new opportunity for a lot of riders to be at the front so we will see what happens.

He ran a great race, but he made a little mistake and made it easy for me, ... It was a great weekend for us.

They say if you lap their track at Fiorano in 60 seconds it means you drive the Ferrari quite fast. If you are slower you are not an F1 racer.

I can't reveal the lap times, because Ferrari do not want to,

I win a lot of times on this track and I think I've won two of the three most important races of my career here,

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

Records are not the most important thing but I am very happy to have the same number of victories as 'Mike the Bike',

It's a fantastic track and if the bike is okay it's a great pleasure to ride.

Now I go back to Italy for a couple of days but we can also make a little party here - I have my mother and some of my best friends from Italy to help me celebrate

We still have quite a few problems with the vibration and this means that we can't use the bike to its full potential and make fast lap times. We've tried lots of changes to the set-up today - balance, suspension, but the problem remains. In some of the fast corners my speed is down by as much as 15 or 20kms. The good thing is that we're much better than yesterday and we've done some really good work within the team to make these improvements, but it's still not enough and some other riders are looking very strong.

Under braking I just clipped his rear wheel and we both crashed. I hope he is not in too much pain...

For sure, it's one of the safest tracks in the world.

It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine.

The numbers are always important and to have won like (as many as) Mick (Doohan) is a great pleasure. But this victory is very much more important.