Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Italian designer Enzo Ferrari.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Enzo Anselmo Giuseppe Maria Ferrari was an Italian motor racing driver and entrepreneur, the founder of the Scuderia Ferrari Grand Prix motor racing team, and subsequently of the Ferrari automobile marque. He was widely known as "il Commendatore" or "il Drake". In his final years he was often referred to as "l'Ingegnere" or "il Grande Vecchio ".
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.
I build engines and attach wheels to them.
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.
One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death.
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.
I believe most things can be said in a few lines.
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 are for people who can't build engines.
The client is not always right.
Racing amuses me.
Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.
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.
The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.
I don'tsell cars; I sell engines. The cars I throw in for free since something has tohold the engines in.
Second isthe first of the losers.
No one remembers who took second place and that will neverbe me.
What's behind you doesn't matter.
You have to have courage to stand up to your critics.
Aerodynamics is for those who cannot manufacture good engines.
Death will destroy my body, but my creatures will keep on living ever after, in the years to come.
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.
There isno triumph or glory in the world that's worth an inch of human skin.
Everyone dreams of driving a Ferrari, it was my intent fromthe start.
I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.
Jeep is America's only real sports car.
The mostimportant victory is the one which has to arrive.
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.
Race cars are neither beautiful nor ugly. They become beautiful when they win.
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.