Juan Manuel Fangio Quotes

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.

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!

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

In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it.

Women rule our lives, don't they?

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.

A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.

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

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

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