Top 35 Valentino Rossi Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Speed is something dangerous, but very exciting.”

— Valentino Rossi

2. “Riding a race bike is an art – a thing that you do because you feel something inside.”

— Valentino Rossi

3. “I try to have a different relationship with the bike. I don’t give it a name, but I always speak with it. I don’t know if the other riders do the same. This is not only a piece of metal – there is a soul. The bike talks back too. But not with a voice, with the components.”

— Valentino Rossi

4. “Our sport is dangerous. We risk the life out there, so we need to stay calm and focused and leave all the rest out.”

— Valentino Rossi

5. “Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.”

— Valentino Rossi

6. “I’m Valentino Rossi. And I want to be a person, not an icon.”

— Valentino Rossi

7. “The tragic incident of Luis Salom reminds us that our sport, our passion, is dangerous. We know it but, in a way, we don’t think about it.”

— Valentino Rossi

8. “It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on.”

— Valentino Rossi

9. “You look at Moto3, the races are very exciting. Moto2 is fantastic, and then MotoGP is boring.”

— Valentino Rossi

10. “How do Ferrari know what I’m doing next year when I don’t know what I’m doing next week?”

— Valentino Rossi

11. “To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.”

— Valentino Rossi

12. “I feel 100% a Yamaha rider in my heart. I had a long career and raced with several factory bikes, but the highlight of my career is undoubtedly with Yamaha.”

— Valentino Rossi

13. “I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.”

— Valentino Rossi

14. “To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.”

— Valentino Rossi

15. “I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical.”

— Valentino Rossi

16. “Once the races begin it’s more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.”

— Valentino Rossi

17. “I don’t like being famous – it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.”

— Valentino Rossi

18. “Barcelona is a special track. I have always loved the layout of the circuit, but also the atmosphere and the fans are special. It has always been good fun.”

— Valentino Rossi

19. “I like physical exercise. I actually like sports in general. I really like snowboarding and playing soccer, too.”

— Valentino Rossi

20. “Giving yourself threads doesn’t mean you don’t believe in yourself in my opinion.”

— Valentino Rossi

21. “I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.”

— Valentino Rossi

22. “I’m lucky because I don’t feel too much pressure – it’s only in the last hour before the race, and even then it’s good, positive pressure.”

— Valentino Rossi

23. “I’m very happy because I won a lot. I’ve won races and lived in a world that just gave me joy, so I remember it very positively.”

— Valentino Rossi

24. “I would have probably stolen cars – it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.”

— Valentino Rossi

25. “However I am looking forward to the two new Grands Prixs both Shanghai and Laguna Seca are fantastic tracks and it will be good to race at them.”

— Valentino Rossi

26. “Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure.”

— Valentino Rossi

27. “Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.”

— Valentino Rossi

28. “I’m done with F1 unfortunately. I’m too old, the train has passed.”

— Valentino Rossi

29. “It’s a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine.”

— Valentino Rossi

30. “You try to do a technical feature: in front of me I had a strong rider who brakes hard and it’s difficult to pass.”

— Valentino Rossi

31. “You can tell people you fell because the bike didn’t follow the trajectory it was supposed to follow, or tell them that you are actually really fast, but the bike simply isn’t. inside you, however, you know the truth. You know you fell off because you made a mistake, or because your opponent is simply faster than you.”

— Valentino Rossi

32. “We have the 2004 M1 here for reference, which is useful. It worked well here last year; we won the race and always did fast lap times so it will be interesting to compare it to the new bike and it will help us to understand which parts have improved.”

— Valentino Rossi

33. “In 2002 the Yamaha was at more or less the same level as the Honda, better in some ways, worse in others. But in the winter of last year between 2002 and 2003, Honda made a big step forward and it seemed as if Yamaha couldn’t quite match that improvement.”

— Valentino Rossi

34. “In my opinion we are at the limit now, and 17 races is really too much. With all the testing that we do now, it means we’re always on the bike and it’s quite difficult.”

— Valentino Rossi

35. “If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.”

— Valentino Rossi

36. “Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn’t have had this passion to be a rider.”

— Valentino Rossi

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

— Valentino Rossi

38. “The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it’s important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.”

— Valentino Rossi