Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.
Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.
To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races
We kept on racing, doing something that Luis [Salom] loved. Fortunately or unfortunately, life goes on.
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.
You look at Moto3, the races are very exciting. Moto2 is fantastic, and then MotoGP is boring.
Nowadays, we have to deal with so many more factors that weren't there in the past. It's not enough to be a good rider, if you want to finish at the front. The riders have become incredible athletes. In the past, you could manage the race and fight only on the last laps. Now you need to train hard. You cannot allow yourself to go on track without being at 100 percent.
I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.
Imagine a multidimensiona l spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image.
I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force.
My parents grew up in poor families where little English was spoken, they both went to college and became teachers. They believed that anything was possible with hard work, and they particularly stressed the importance of education. They instilled that same belief in my sister and me.