Valentino Rossi Quotes

Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.

Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.

I think I've been quite lucky in that I haven't had to make too many changes to myself. Obviously, there have been adaptations and things that I've altered, but I haven't changed completely. I've stayed myself.

At the beginning, I didn't want to arrive at a big team like Ferrari and say: 'Ok, I want the car like this' - I just wanted to try and adapt to the car and then see if I wanted to make some changes.

If you want to try new challenges you have to adapt.

I'm not going to change the way I play.

I have to do a better job of learning how to adjust.

I went from being a big fish in a small pond to going to City with a lot of top players, I felt like I had to work really hard to be the best.

Why resist change when it's the main source of your growth?

If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.

Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.

I think it's important that you always transform if you can. That's what I was trained to do. You try and hide yourself as much as you can - that's the key to longevity.

Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.

It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times.

The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice.

Accept what you can not change-change that which is unacceptable.

Our most important problems cannot be solved; they must be outgrown.

I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

Love is always changing and unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us.

I try my best to learn from other people's mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.

My life has changed, and I'm changing with it.

We must be willing to change chairs if we want to grow. There is no permanent compatibility between a chair and a person. And there is no one right chair. What is right at one stage may be restricting at another or too soft. During the passage from one stage to another, we will be between two chairs. Wobbling no doubt, but developing.

I don't celebrate milestones and I don't do anniversary editions. It's not my style to reflect on accomplishments.

Nothing ever stands still, and neither should you.