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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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