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[Gemini]

My girlfriend writes some very important presentation and she collects quotes on "ambition" from various sorts of famous people. I was given a task to find one from F1 heros. Please help me to maintain my "knows-everything" image in my domectic relations

[Orin]

Damon Hill: "Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog. "

[cathexist]

"To do something well is so worth while that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy. Life is measured in achievement not in years alone."---Bruce McLaren

And my fave, though more about personal boundaries than ambition in its literal sense:

"At some stage of your development you may have to overstep your known capabilities. I strongly urge you to pick that spot carefully."---Jim Clark, 1966

[WACKO]

Originally posted by Orin
Damon Hill: "The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog. "

Gosh, didn't know he had such a smart one. Maybe time for a new career step then...

[Taxi]

" to be second is to be the first of the losers" Mika Hakkinen

" Defeat gives me fisical pain" Ron Dennis

" Tell me what are the times you want and I'll do them. but I have to change the set ups of your car" Kimi raikkonen to Peter Sauber at the age of 21 in his first test at sauber.

" Michael is the best, I'm second best, and the others are overrated" Eddie Irvine

[Jodum5]

Originally posted by Taxi
" to be second is to be the first of the losers" Mika Hakkinen

" Defeat gives me fisical pain" Ron Dennis

" Tell me what are the times you want and I'll do them. but I have to change the set ups of your car" Kimi raikkonen to Peter Sauber at the age of 21 in his first test at sauber.

" Michael is the best, I'm second best, and the others are overrated" Eddie Irvine

I don't know if you are a bad speller or a sarcastic one but that made me laugh (if you didnt notice, fisical is quite close to fiscal )

Anyway, I appreciate the quotes keep em coming!

[Taxi]

Originally posted by Jodum5


I don't know if you are a bad speller or a sarcastic one but that made me laugh (if you didnt notice, fisical is quite close to fiscal )

Anyway, I appreciate the quotes keep em coming!

I'm a bad speller! but that's an interesting point

[Gemini]

Thank you guys a lot! Keep em coming.

[John B]

"I will fight until the end" - Prost before the final 2 races of 1986

[santori]

'I don't want to make friends with anybody. I don't give a **** for fame. I just want to win' - Nelson Piquet.

"If in this challenge that you [journalists] would organise I lose, I will not pardon myself. If you [Varzi] lose, obviously you suffer equally. Our friendship will probably end. Is it worth the trouble to play this game?" - Tazio Nuvolari, declining to take part in a direct competition between himself and Achille Varzi.

[Taxi]

" I'm as good as Senna" Schumacher 1993 L'automobile Magazine

OT " I'm not here to give any show. I'm here to win"

Goran Ivanisevic Wimbledon sometime in the 90's... he gave show and... lost.. finaly he got a wild card in 2002/3? and nailded it. It was one of the most beloved wins in history of tenis. God I miss that player!

[Taxi]

" I think I have gasoline instead of blood in my veins" Nelson Piquet

[Raelene]

grab the book called 50 years of the F1 World Championhip in the words of those that were there" by Geoff Tibbals - thousands of quotes

"Race driving can be an addiction, so that one needs it like morphine, and one can't give up"...Peter Collins 1958

The wonderful thing about being a Grand Prix driv er is that you are presented 16 times in a season with a challenge thatyou can focus on, and it's something that's never more than a fortnight away. It's a tangible goal each time and it's very appealing to live like that. The tgrouble is your life goes up and down each time! - dAMON hILL 1995.

"i never raced for fun, although it was fun to race" Stirling Moss

Driving well is all about confidence - with it you can do anything,, without it you are nothing - Alan Jones 1980

[Pep]

Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser. (Ron Dennis?)

Irvine, asked how he felt about the national anthem being played after he won a race Irvine said: "I couldn't give a sh*t which song is played or which flag is flown. I race for myself and for no-one else."

[Ross Stonefeld]

None of these quotes really seem to be about ambition.

[Raelene]

"getting your bum into a car and driving a car are two v ery different things. Before you can driver a car, you have to have one. To have one requires ducking and diving, it takes wheeling and dealing and conniving. And that part of motor rcing is tghe bigger part. Its like the bottom six-sevents of an iceberg - nobody who hasn't hit one know's what it's like - Alan Jones

[zontafan]

dc on montoya

"There are very few injuries in the paddock but, as someone else said, when fat people start exercising that's what happens," he grinned.

[Victor]

My goal is 50 victories
(Prost, when he had about 33 victories, and 50 meant almost the double of Jachie Stewart's previous record).
I can tell you this sounded ambitious by then.
He achieved it.

[xype]

Originally posted by Ross Stonefeld
None of these quotes really seem to be about ambition.

True dat.

How about "My goal is to be World Champion" - Random Bloke & F1 Driver

[John B]

There may well be one from Senna talking about breaking up with his fiancee and moving to Europe at the onset of his career, which I can't think of......