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

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike... you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it's true.

The speed is something dangerous but very exciting.

Giving yourself threads doesn't mean you don't believe in yourself in my opinion.

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

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.

I'm Valentino Rossi. And I want to be a person, not an icon.

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

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

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

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

I have only one prejudice in horseflesh - I do not like a white one.

My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.

I just owe it to myself, to God and to everybody who supports me and people who don't even know me yet, to just be fully intentional and authentically real with everything I do, say and create.

In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.

I would have preferred to capture bin Laden and expose how he uses Islamic ideology for his own purposes.

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

A Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside.

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

A friend of mine gave me a very good piece of advice, which is if you don't think your kids are going to want it, don't take it.