Jackie Stewart Quotes

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

Cornering perfectly is like bringing a woman to climax.

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

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

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

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

Sometimes you need to ease off in order to go faster

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

It takes leadership to improve safety.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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