Fangio Quotes & Sayings

I was lucky enough at Stanford to have Vic Fangio as the defensive coordinator for a year, and then Jason Tarver. — Andrew Luck

Women rule our lives, don't they? — Juan Manuel Fangio

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

Fangio had once said: 'You should never think of a car as a piece of metal. It's a living being with a heart that beats. It can feel happy or sad. It all depends on how you treat it. — Anthony Horowitz

A crazy man finishes in the cemetery. — Juan Manuel Fangio

When I raced with Mercedes, I thought I'd learn German. But my wife didn't want to live in Germany. — Juan Manuel Fangio

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

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

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

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

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 time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it. — Juan Manuel Fangio

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

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

Juan Fangio was the great man of racing, whilst Stirling Moss was the epitome of a racing driver. — Jackie Stewart

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

Every few years, in the world of sport, someone ascends to the most rarefied of all levels - the one at which it becomes news not when they win, but when they lose. It must have been like that in the early Fifties, when a tubby Italian called Alberto Ascari was stitching together nine Grand Prix wins in a row, a record not even Fangio, Clark or Senna could match. Or when the great Real Madrid side of Alfredo Di Stefano and Ferenc Puskas won the first five European Cup finals, between 1956 and 1960. Or when Martina Navratilova dominated Wimbledon's Centre Court, winning nine ladies' singles titles in thirteen years. The current Australian cricket team is in just such a run at present, having just completed nine consecutive victories, putting them four wins away from establishing an all-time record. And then there is Tiger Woods. — Richard Williams

The best classroom of all times was about two car lengths behind Juan Manuel Fangio. — Stirling Moss