Emerson Fittipaldi Quotes

Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion.

I've always said that racing in New York is performing on the big stage.

I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better! If I'm presented with a fast horse or a fast boat, I still get that shiver of excitement and I cannot resist. Luckily I never seem to have any accidents, and thank God for that.

I think it was wrong to take the decision to slow F1 down. It was much better in my day, when it was already a lot safer than it had been in the '70s and '80s, but you could still drive crazy fast.

When you've got the Daytona 500 out there at stake and everything riding on the line, guys go for it, and the guys that go for it are the ones that are either going to win or they're going to wreck.

After I finished racing in the United States, I received a lot of criticism for being dangerous, a little bit stupid, insane, you name it.

I told Monster the other day, I'm a racer's racer. This is what I truly love to do.

I just try to go out there and be who I am and compete and bring home as many trophies as I can. That's what being a race car driver is all about and that's why I do what I do.

It would be quite good to be a Formula 1 racecar driver.

In World Series, everything is a bit slower than F1. But each time I sit in the car, whether it is World Series or F1, once I am in the cockpit, I am mentally prepared for what the car is. I don't have to physically drive it to remember what it is doing.

Since I was a child I've been looking up to Formula One. Dreaming to be a Formula One driver.

Racing is my passion and I've been able to have a good life anyway. I've been able to travel the world, so I'm not complaining.

I wish Michael Schumacher would come try NASCAR. That'd be cool.

Racing's my life.

To the general public, it's the nature of the sport that it's a car-dominant sport.

I think F1, ultimately, is man and machine at its absolute limit. It is modern day chariot racing.

The day I do get a championship-winning car, I will run with it. I will capitalise on every part of that beautiful thing.

I'd be a race car driver. I love fast cars.

I was driving in Formula Renault 2.0... with Daniel Ricciardo.

I think it would be very exciting to do a track like Silverstone the other way around, to arrive so quick in Becketts and then Maggotts would be very exciting.

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.'

There's no better place to be on the podium than here at Monza.

I love racing.

We are in F1 and we want to fight against the best.

It's been 23 years since the last Swede in Formula One, so for me to be the next F1 driver at all these races around the world has been amazing.