Enzo Ferrari Quotations

The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.

One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death.

I believe most things can be said in a few lines.

The fact is I don't drive just to get from A to B. I enjoy feeling the car's reactions, becoming part of it.

But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know.

Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines.

I have yet to meet anyone quite so stubborn as myself and animated by this overpowering passion that leaves me no time for thought or anything else. I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.

I build engines and attach wheels to them.

I have never gone on a real trip, never taken a holiday. The best holiday for me is spent in my workshops when nearly everybody else is on vacation.

Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.

It's true that I have never met any man whom I thought altogether resembled me - but only because my faults are so enormous.

Aerodynamics is for those who cannot manufacture good engines.

The Jeep is the only true American sports car.

I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.

You have to have courage to stand up to your critics.

Second isthe first of the losers.

There isno triumph or glory in the world that's worth an inch of human skin.

Death will destroy my body, but my creatures will keep on living ever after, in the years to come.

Everyone dreams of driving a Ferrari, it was my intent fromthe start.

No one remembers who took second place and that will neverbe me.

TheFerrari is a dream - people dream of owning this special vehicle and for mostpeople it will remain a dream apart from for those lucky few.

I gave (my drivers) three things: a sense of optimism, a creative environment, and the ultimate motivator-competition. By competing with each other in-house, we wound up beating our rivals.

Jeep is America's only real sports car.

The mostimportant victory is the one which has to arrive.

I am convinced, that when a man tells a woman he loves her, he only means that he desires her; and that the only total love in this world is that of a father for his son.

Race cars are neither beautiful nor ugly. They become beautiful when they win.

I don'tsell cars; I sell engines. The cars I throw in for free since something has tohold the engines in.

What's behind you doesn't matter.

The client is not always right.