Alex Zanardi Quotes

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Alex Zanardi

Profession : Driver

Birth : October 23, 1966

I've certainly had many more opportunities than I deserved, but luckily enough I ended up making the right choices.

Alex Zanardi

I lost my legs in a big crash and, of course, after that, there were times, not so much of darkness, but certainly times where it was very uncertain of what my future would hold.

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Your trip in this life is very provisional, but the best thing you can do in your life to live in the right way is to take every day as a great opportunity to do what you can and when you're as lucky as I have been in life in getting so much attention and exposure, you learn that you can move mountains with a very small effort.

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I have a little bit of a big head.

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I got into hand-cycling to prove to myself that I could do it and get back into some form of competition, and now it's led to this. If someone had suggested a few years ago that I would be taking it to the Ironman, I would have asked them what they were smoking.

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The best thing I can do is keep advertising myself by winning races.

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First time you step on these new legs, it's bloody hard. It's painful on your pelvic bones. But every day I get more of a feel for where my feet are.

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The accident for sure was one of the most important experiences of my life. During the course of my rehabilitation I had people who were exactly what I needed to be inspired.

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The fact that I'm racing, yes, is important, it's my passion, but, it's not my life, racing.

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Vancouver is a street course in the true meaning of the word. There are a lot of places where you can lose the car and end up staying there at least for the session, or for the rest of the race.

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It makes me feel great when I'm driving and talking to my wife, and I look in the mirror, and my son is sleeping in the back.

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In para-cycling I am a veteran with Olympic medals now.

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When you accomplish something that is very special, it will stay forever.

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It would be completely wrong and arrogant of me to say that this is what I am, an inspiration to others. During the course of my recovery, I bumped into people with amazing stories, far more amazing than mine.

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It may look weird to an outsider to watch me jump out of the car basically walking on my arms. Of course, it's very easy for me.

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I said I preferred Daytona to LeMans if I were to race. LeMans is a great event, don't get me wrong, but here in the U.S. is where I turned my life around, where I have a lot of friends, where I feel have my greatest following - not in terms of quantity but of quality - of racing fans.

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Obviously my feelings for Portland are quite special because that's where I obtained one of my greatest career satisfactions; like the first love, you never forget the first win!

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You don't know how many times I fell just taking ridiculous small steps.

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If I ever won the Indy 500, I can tell you that I wouldn't worry about my engine, that's for sure.

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Disabilities are a very relative condition, it is something that defines a situation, but if you can't jump over the problem then you can certainly go around it.

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