Best 14 quotes of Juan Manuel Fangio on MyQuotes

A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

When I raced with Mercedes, I thought Id learn German. But my wife didnt want to live in Germany.

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

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