Happiness is the longing for repetition.
I've always like roadracing, but you know how it is in a family when you're young. They thought it was a little too dangerous so I started with Trials riding.
It's quite easy to start Trials riding. You just need a bike and you're set.
I'm proud of my triumphs. I've dreamed of being world champion, I've had some difficult times and they've made me value the good times.
We've done all the work that HRC wanted on the twin and the project has been completed. We were consistently up there with the top guys and that is what HRC wanted to prove.
What the other teams do is something that I can never control, so I just keep focussed on my direction.
I've enjoyed winning races in both 500cc and MotoGP and enjoyed leading the world championship and contesting it right up until the end.
The first step of any communication is honest & consistent intentions, after this, even if you don't communicate, people will listen, hear & align
Where our work is, there let our joy be.
You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there’s cataclysm.
As I have found out, recognition has its upside, its downside and – you may say – its backside.