Jackie Stewart Quotes

• It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance.

  Jackie Stewart

  Racing, Self Improvement, Being The Best

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• Sometimes you need to ease off in order to go faster

  Jackie Stewart

  Order, Needs, Ease

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• Nobody's perfect, but all of us can be better than we are.

  Jackie Stewart

  Perfect, Self Improvement, Nobody's Perfect

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• Cornering is like bringing a woman to a climax. Both you and the car must work together. You start to enter the area of excitement at the corner, you set up a pace which is right for the car and after you've told it it is coming along with you, you guide it along at a rhythm which has by now become natural. Only after you've cleared the corner you can both take pleasure in knowing it's gone well.

  Jackie Stewart

  Knowing, Car, Working Together

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• Oh yes. It's not when you brake but when you take them off that counts. Most people don't understand that.

  Jackie Stewart

  People, Racing, Car Racing

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• In my sport, the quick are too often listed among the dead

  Jackie Stewart

  Sports

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• For a quick lap at the Nrburgring, you've probably experienced more in seven minutes...than most people have experienced in all their life in the way of fear, in the way of tension, in the way of animosity towards machinery and to a racetrack.

  Jackie Stewart

  People, Lap, Way

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• Cornering perfectly is like bringing a woman to climax.

  Jackie Stewart

  Racing, Climax

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• There's enough Ferraris here to eat a plate of spaghetti.

  Jackie Stewart

  Car, Racing, Ferrari

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• It takes leadership to improve safety.

  Jackie Stewart

  Safety

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• Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others.

  Jackie Stewart

  Good Luck, Misfortunes Of Others, Cases

  "Reflections on Success". Book by Martyn Lewis, 1997.

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• When I was racing, we were more used to seeing some horrific accidents. For example, Michael Schumacher is a great world champion, but I haven't seen a weekend where he doesn't go off the circuit. At every race he always has a spin or runs through the gravel trap. He usually doesn't hit anything, but nevertheless it is an error that could not have been made in the days I raced.

  Jackie Stewart

  Running, Weekend, Errors

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• I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.

  Jackie Stewart

  People, Champion, Might

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• Juan Fangio was the great man of racing, whilst Stirling Moss was the epitome of a racing driver.

  Jackie Stewart

  Men, Racing, Moss

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• From the five years, 1968-73, if you were an F1 driver at that time, there was a very likely chance that you would have died.

  Jackie Stewart

  Years, Chance, Drivers

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• The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings.

  Jackie Stewart

  Wings, Years, Car

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• It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.

  Jackie Stewart

  Leadership, Past, Years

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• There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.

  Jackie Stewart

  Sports, Risk, Doubt

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• From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.

  Jackie Stewart

  Racing, Today, Very Happy

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• When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the toxic smoke. What we need is air to go to a driver for 45 seconds. I'm surprised that this is not done, and I would make it compulsory.

  Jackie Stewart

  Fire, Air, Toxic

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• There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.

  Jackie Stewart

  Technology, Fire, Impact

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• In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.

  Jackie Stewart

  Years, Air, Miles

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