Quotes by Jacques Villeneuve - Page 1

It's sad that you don't see drivers being real people.
Jacques Villeneuve /
Being Real
Drivers
Real People
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Everything bad about France was transferred to Quebec.
Jacques Villeneuve /
France
Quebec
Transferred
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I hate it when politics play too large part in the sport.
Jacques Villeneuve /
Sport
Large Part
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I'm competitive, but that doesn't stop me from being realistic.
Jacques Villeneuve /
Realistic
Competitive
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If I knew I couldn't win races, I would have stayed in the States.
Jacques Villeneuve /
Races
Stayed
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A lot of people say when you have kids, you slow down. I want my kids to see me race.
Jacques Villeneuve /
Me People Race
People Say
Slow
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I don't understand the concept of always trying to make F1 go slower and slower and slower and have less and less power.
Jacques Villeneuve /
Concept
Slower
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I was happy to ski and play a lot of ice hockey. But I've come back because I was - and am - a racing driver. This is what I do.
Jacques Villeneuve /
Hockey
Ice
Racing
Driver
Ski
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Both Indy Car and Formula 1 work in the same way, although there is a greater emphasis on development and technology in Formula 1.
Jacques Villeneuve /
Emphasis
Indy
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Ultimately, the best driver will always do something special, whatever the rules and whatever the regulations. Same thing with the teams.
Jacques Villeneuve /
Something Special
Best Always Will
Driver
Regulations
Same Thing
Teams
Ultimately
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Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.
Jacques Villeneuve /
Motor
Life Work Music
Unlike
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Everybody just uses the one-move rule without realising when it is too late to actually move and cross over and when it is actually being dangerous.
Jacques Villeneuve /
Realising
Too Late
Cross
Uses
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Everybody has fallen asleep on the fact that F1 is dangerous. They all think it's a video game, and it's not. It is very, very dangerous, and it's tough.
Jacques Villeneuve /
Video
Asleep
Video Game
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I'm a purist, and I love the sport. I loved the '60s and '70s, when the fans even enjoyed the races where only four cars finished, and they were two laps apart.
Jacques Villeneuve /
Enjoyed
Apart
Laps
Races
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Some younger drivers didn't grow up seeing racing as being dangerous. They break their little finger, and they are surprised. It's like, 'Be happy it's only that.'
Jacques Villeneuve /
Break
Drivers
Racing
Younger
Be Happy
Finger
Grow Up
Surprised
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Ask me about the challenge of becoming as good at music as I am at motorsport, and I have to say: my career has been racing, and I don't plan on music becoming my next career.
Jacques Villeneuve /
Racing
Good Music I Am
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The feeling I got from rallycross was a little bit more of the NASCAR aspect of it; it's a family of races where racing is a passion, and it's not the politics that come with it.
Jacques Villeneuve /
Aspect
Nascar
Racing
Races
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Winning the Indy 500 in 1995 and the Formula 1 championship in 1997 are very special moments for me, and the people in NASCAR show me respect for what I've achieved so far in my career.
Jacques Villeneuve /
Championship
Nascar
Respect Me People
Achieved
Indy
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F1 is giving penalties for people making mistakes instead of for people driving dirty. And that is wrong. Mistakes happen. You run into each other: that's life, that's racing, and too bad.
Jacques Villeneuve /
Making Mistakes
Penalties
Racing
Life Bad People
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I'm a racer at heart more than anything else, and that will always be my priority: competing. But ultimately, if you can't drive, you can still have the competitive spirit outside of a car.
Jacques Villeneuve /
Competing
Anything Else
Competitive
More Than Anything
Priority
Racer
Ultimately
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I think it was wrong to take the decision to slow F1 down. It was much better in my day, when it was already a lot safer than it had been in the '70s and '80s, but you could still drive crazy fast.
Jacques Villeneuve /
Slow
Safer
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I would rather have racing without computers. The human side is forgotten, and instead of talking over what's happening and just trusting the feel of the driver, the data becomes almost more important.
Jacques Villeneuve /
Computers
Data
Forgotten
Racing
Important Feel More
Becomes
Driver
Happening
Instead
Trusting
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Conserving fuel is fine, and it was great in the past. The problem is that the drivers don't have to do it. It's all done electronically. You sit there, and it saves fuel for you, and that defeats the purpose.
Jacques Villeneuve /
Conserving
Drivers
Fuel
Great Done Past
Defeats
In The Past
Saves
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You need to let the drivers go for it, and if they bang wheels, too bad. It's fun, it's a good show, the fans are up in the grandstands, and they can scream and shout about it... that's good; that's what you want.
Jacques Villeneuve /
Drivers
Scream
Wheels
Good Fun Bad
Bang
Go For It
Shout
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All these corporations don't want their drivers to ruin their image, so you can't say what you think. You're basically not allowed to have a personality. How can you have any heroes if you don't allow personalities?
Jacques Villeneuve /
Corporations
Drivers
Personalities
Ruin
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I love a lot of high speed turns, turns where you have to push yourself, force yourself to go fast. Then there's something telling your foot to lift off, because it's so fast, and it's impressive when you get that feeling and just drive on.
Jacques Villeneuve /
Impressive
Speed
Turns
Love Yourself Your
Foot
Lift
Push
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I am stupidly passionate about music; it has become a bit of drug. I buy tons of CDs and spend days listening to each and every one, putting notes on every song to know which tracks are good so that when I do my little MP3 collection, I know which songs to include.
Jacques Villeneuve /
Cds
Mp3
Notes
Good Music I Am
Include
Tons
Tracks
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I don't think that American drivers going to NASCAR are taking the easy way out because as I said, the racing is amazing; it's just that it's easier to adapt to what you grow up with. American drivers grow up with NASCAR, they know NASCAR, and that's where they want to go.
Jacques Villeneuve /
Amazing
Drivers
Easier
Easy Way
Nascar
Racing
Adapt
Grow Up
Taking
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With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure that had a huge influence on me. However, my father had more influence on me just by the way he lived, because the way he was at the racetrack was the way he was in everyday life.
Jacques Villeneuve /
Everyday
Everyday Life
Life Me Father
Life Father Me
Huge Influence
Racetrack
The Only Thing
Uncle
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