Alex Zanardi Quotes

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Alex Zanardi

Profession : Driver

Birth : October 23, 1966

Once you put everything in the right perspective, even bad times can be an opportunity to refresh your appetite, your desire.

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The perfect life is the combination of great moments and bad ones, and under that point of view, my life is fantastic, because I've certainly hit more than one bump.

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My wife has always been positive. In the hospital my brother-in-law was trying to prepare her for the worst, but she said, 'Hold on, I don't want to hear that. He'll be all right. I'm going to ring BMW now and order a car with manual controls because the first thing he'll want to do when he leaves hospital is drive.' She knew her husband!

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I believe the perfect life is the right combination between great things, great success and stupid mistakes or failures.

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When you are in your twenties you just think the races are what matter the most. When you are in your forties you really appreciate what you do every day.

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When I returned to the Touring Car championship, I got the team to create a special brake pedal that I could use with my prosthetic leg.

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I bump into a lot of people that have similar problems that I have but less titles or magazines than I have, and they just challenge their adversity with the same tenacity, with the same enthusiasm, with the same will to succeed because life is one and you've got to take advantage.

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Today, I don't have any psychological scars, because I am a realist and an optimist. After all, I can't lose my legs twice.

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Having no legs doesn't mean you can't drive fast and I wasn't going to be happy scoring the odd point. I thought it was possible to win and went for it.

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Never say never, always try to see if there is an opportunity to go around the problem if you can't go across it.

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As far as talking, I'm a pretty competitive dude.

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I'm no different from other drivers - my talent is in my brain, not in my right foot.

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At the time I was asked if I would ever step back in a race car, but what was very important for me was to go into the bathroom and pee on my own, but I could not do that. I had to be helped. That was my number one priority.

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As you approach the finish line, you go through a tunnel of people, all of them cheering and encouraging you. Then I heard the speaker say, 'Alessandro Zanardi, you are an Ironman!' It was something phenomenal, something amazing... I got very emotional at that point.

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If you train hard and work hard eventually you will gain results, and that is the real spirit of life.

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My heart stopped seven times and I had to be resuscitated seven times. It's incredible I'm still here so every day I feel happy to have a second chance but I'm sorry to say I didn't see any tunnel or any light at the end of it.

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I shouldn't have survived that accident. Science didn't give me a single chance. I basically survived for about 50 minutes with less than one liter of blood. Science says that's simply impossible.

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It's always good to let people know your emotions for them because love is what drives everything.

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The question I asked when I woke up was not how am I going to live without legs - but how am I going to do all the things I want to do without legs? There was no doubt that I was going to do them, I was just curious to find out how - but I knew I was going to find a way.

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The first thought that will go through my mind in the morning when I open my eyes will be very much related to my current dreams, rather than to my past nightmares.

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