Alex Zanardi Quotes

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Alex Zanardi

Profession : Driver

Birth : October 23, 1966

Formula One is not sport. Formula One is only intense competition between teams where the competition is really the research, the technology.

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When I first climbed into a go-kart, aged 13, I thought to myself: 'This is what I want to do with my life, and I want to drive F1.'

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For me just the fact to be alive is sufficient motivation to want to improve my life quality.

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That's what I admire the most of my mom, that's she's so tough.

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In comparison to an able-bodied person, it's incredible, the amount of extra resistance I have, in comparison to an able body.

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I'm just a very curious guy who has a lot of possibility.

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We all are limited in that none of us can fly and none of us can run faster than some animals, but we figure out a way to go to Tokyo if we have to, right? Or we run faster than an animal with a race car.

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I think you can learn from other people's mistakes and other people's strengths, and that is why I have always been watching, with particular attention, other drivers - and not only drivers at the top.

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There are times I'm approaching turns with my right hand on the brake lever, I'm downshifting with my fingers, I'm controlling the throttle with my left hand and steering into the corner with only one hand on the wheel. I feel a bit like Jimi Hendrix: I play with both my hands.

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The memories are vague of the accident. I remember coming out of the pitlane with cruise control, letting it go and then losing control of the car. I remember my hands frantically operating the steering wheel trying to recover control of the car, then this big, big noise and nothing more.

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I enjoy being in the middle of my journey much more than being close to the end.

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After my crash I never doubted it would be hard but I would be lying to say this new life has been a surprise to me.

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My never-say-never attitude has helped me a lot. That's why after a short period after the accident, I'm capable of doing almost everything on my own.

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I would not be who I am if I were not putting pressure on me to up the level of my game further.

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When my son was just a kid, I remember him going for a running race at school and winning and coming to hug me. I realized my heart was absolutely full of joy, there was no space left.

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The important thing in life, not just in sports, is to be able to set a new target in front of you, which is very much related to the deck of cards you've got available.

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I guess, when I go there in the centre, when I do my rehabilitation, I look at the people with only one leg and I actually envy them because I'd love to have one leg. I guess the ones that only have one leg, they envy the ones that they are only missing one leg below the knee, and on and on.

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You have to accept the fact that as long as you are alive, you have something to lose. Living is dangerous.

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I will do something, time to time, with motor racing. But I'll never go back, I think, to drive full-time because I've lost that anger, that desire.

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