Jason Bonham Quotes

If I wasn't into MMA, I would definitely love to get into motocross. That is a much tougher sport.

I bought my first dirt bike when I was 12, and I started racing motocross when I was 15 and started getting pretty successful. Then I started racing snowmobiles at 17 and decided I wanted to focus on that and see if I can make a career at it.

I raced motocross; I raced for Suzuki when I was a kid.

I'm a bit of a thrill-seeker. I used to race mountain bikes when I was a kid. I did the national circuit for two years.

With roadracing, it takes a lot more time and money.

So while I was studying, I rode my Trials bike, then I moved to roadracing.

I raced with my brother from when I started to 2014 when I finished karting.

As a driver, your target is always to be with the most competitive team possible.

In my city of Maracay, there is a go kart circuit about five minutes from my home. When I was about three or four years old, I said I wanted to race, but I was too young; then, when I reached the age of seven, my father gave me a kart and we started from there.

But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more.

My dad always wanted me to get into motocross like him, so I started doing it while I was really young.

When I was 7-years-old I, discovered Go-Karts and started Karting, since then I thought to be an F1 driver, that was pretty much buried into my head.

I would love to drive a MotoGP but I'm not sure Ferrari agrees.

Nobody wants to lose Ferrari. And I don't think Ferrari can afford to lose Formula One.

It will be a dream to come back to F1.

I have a dream fight - boxing fight - and I am for sure gonna fight a boxing fight.

When I was in Class II, we used to walk about 5 km. to school. I did not know of Olympics or even athletics then. One day, a friend went in a car and left me behind. I was so angry, I wanted to run and outrace the car. I ran so fast that I tripped and fractured my knee.

Racing has become more show time; we've got to have something new to create interest in the sport.

It was a lot of fun playing against one of the best players to ever play this game in Michael Jordan. For me it was a dream to play against him night in and night out in the NBA with the New York Knicks.

Good health, peace of mind, being outdoors, camaraderie - those are all wonderful things that come to you when running. But for me, the real pull of running - the proverbial icing on the cake - has always been racing.

I have one quote I very often read to myself, from a very good friend: 'Forget the people around you now; remember the little boy who was racing in go-karts, what you were dreaming of and what he wanted to achieve one day and what was his goal. Race for him.'. I fell in love with the sport, I love racing. The amount of satisfaction I get just going around in a Formula 1 car makes me smile. So if it is a bad day then you tend to come out and say it's horrible and you don't enjoy. But if you had to pick between that and doing nothing, you would always pick that.

I was born to race and to win.

Professional motorcycle riders that are pretty young because it's a young man's sport. You're like out of your prime if you're in your mid to late 20s. Which is awful but a lot of guys still do ride into their late 20s. I rode. I just didn't do any of the jumps or races.

Athletes try to get other athletes out and they should have no false starts.

No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences.