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As a race car driver, I don't think I will drive foreve

As a race car driver, I don’t think I will drive forever, because it is not so much a question of being competitive, but of seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.
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The best thing I can do is keep advertising myself by winning races.
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After I finished racing in the United States, I received a lot of criticism for being dangerous, a little bit stupid, insane, you name it.
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It warms my heart, no doubt, to inspire people. In reality, people see in others what they want to see in themselves.
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You only recognize how good something is if you’ve been through the bad.
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It makes me feel great when I’m driving and talking to my wife, and I look in the mirror, and my son is sleeping in the back.
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Losing my legs was one of the greatest opportunities of my life.
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Once you put everything in the right perspective, even bad times can be an opportunity to refresh your appetite, your desire.
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Having no legs doesn’t mean you can’t drive fast and I wasn’t going to be happy scoring the odd point. I thought it was possible to win and went for it.
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When I returned to the Touring Car championship, I got the team to create a special brake pedal that I could use with my prosthetic leg.
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When you accomplish something that is very special, it will stay forever.
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Of course, when I can get an Indy Car or Champ Car race on television, I never miss the opportunity.
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I am very proud to become a BMW Brand Ambassador. BMW is like a second family, and over the past years we not only enjoyed great times together at the track, but we have also become close friends.
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The memories are vague of the accident. I remember coming out of the pitlane with cruise control, letting it go and then losing control of the car. I remember my hands frantically operating the steering wheel trying to recover control of the car, then this big, big noise and nothing more.
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I have a little bit of a big head.
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First time you step on these new legs, it’s bloody hard. It’s painful on your pelvic bones. But every day I get more of a feel for where my feet are.
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I will do something, time to time, with motor racing. But I’ll never go back, I think, to drive full-time because I’ve lost that anger, that desire.
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I enjoy being in the middle of my journey much more than being close to the end.
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As far as talking, I’m a pretty competitive dude.
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I’m just a very curious guy who has a lot of possibility.
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When I arrived in Champ Cars, which at the time used to be called Indy Cars and then got renamed CART and then renamed Champ Cars, I was racing against Jimmy Vasser, my team-mate, but more than him, I was racing against Michael Andretti, Emerson Fittapaldi, Al Unser Jr. – guys that had big names.
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We all have expectations but sometimes the greatest thing is to be surprised with what happens and to find out that it is quite different from the way you imagined it.
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The perfect life is the combination of great moments and bad ones, and under that point of view, my life is fantastic, because I’ve certainly hit more than one bump.
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My never-say-never attitude has helped me a lot. That’s why after a short period after the accident, I’m capable of doing almost everything on my own.
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When I first climbed into a go-kart, aged 13, I thought to myself: ‘This is what I want to do with my life, and I want to drive F1.’
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The important thing in life, not just in sports, is to be able to set a new target in front of you, which is very much related to the deck of cards you’ve got available.
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My parents taught me that I could always improve on things.
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Obviously, my wife is very important, very important because in all this time she never watched me with that look that means ‘I am sorry,’ or that means ‘poor you.’
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I finally returned to Lausitzring in 2003. The idea was to drive the 13 laps that I had been unable to complete because of the crash. I drove out and it was as if I was in the car the day before the accident.
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It would be completely wrong and arrogant of me to say that this is what I am, an inspiration to others. During the course of my recovery, I bumped into people with amazing stories, far more amazing than mine.
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When you’re young, not only do you not have any money, you don’t think something can happen to you. I raced some races without insurance in the early days of my career. I didn’t think about it at all.
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At the time I was asked if I would ever step back in a race car, but what was very important for me was to go into the bathroom and pee on my own, but I could not do that. I had to be helped. That was my number one priority.
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Portland is a permanent road course built in a beautiful state, which is for me a fantastic area for many reasons. The downside is that the weather is so unpredictable that it’s not uncommon to start the race on the dry and end with the rain as it happened to me in 1996 when I won my first Champ Car race.
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Everything you do tends to make you accomplish another step on the road to complete yourself.
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I bump into a lot of people that have similar problems that I have but less titles or magazines than I have, and they just challenge their adversity with the same tenacity, with the same enthusiasm, with the same will to succeed because life is one and you’ve got to take advantage.
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Everybody is calling me crazy because I want to do the Ironman. I’m not doing it to win it. I’m doing it to finish it. I’m racing myself, not a particular field or group of people.
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I haven‘t done any of the things I have done to inspire others, but I am sure that if I am watching my story from the outside I would be joining the club saying, ‘Wow, that guy really gets you going.’
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I got into hand-cycling to prove to myself that I could do it and get back into some form of competition, and now it’s led to this. If someone had suggested a few years ago that I would be taking it to the Ironman, I would have asked them what they were smoking.
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I’m a wild horse, to say the least, and with age, I haven’t calmed down completely.
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I shouldn’t have survived that accident. Science didn’t give me a single chance. I basically survived for about 50 minutes with less than one liter of blood. Science says that’s simply impossible.
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I would not be who I am if I were not putting pressure on me to up the level of my game further.
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I’ve certainly had many more opportunities than I deserved, but luckily enough I ended up making the right choices.
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I have to give this comment about the American people – they are very good fans. But they are very protective. I think they would prefer it if their great stars are born in America. They are the ones that only stay in the hearts of the fans. And that’s understandable.
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The trust the BMW family puts in me means a lot to me.
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That’s what I admire the most of my mom, that’s she’s so tough.
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My heart stopped seven times and I had to be resuscitated seven times. It’s incredible I’m still here so every day I feel happy to have a second chance but I’m sorry to say I didn’t see any tunnel or any light at the end of it.
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I know that I am a lucky guy. I know that after an accident like the one I had, you know, only one guy out of a thousand can really go back home and still live. And I am that one. So I am totally aware of that.
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The accident for sure was one of the most important experiences of my life. During the course of my rehabilitation I had people who were exactly what I needed to be inspired.
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We all are limited in that none of us can fly and none of us can run faster than some animals, but we figure out a way to go to Tokyo if we have to, right? Or we run faster than an animal with a race car.
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I am out to prove that there are no obstacles for the disabled.
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It’s not much different to Formula One where they are improving the cars constantly. The difference is every hand biker needs a different bike depending on their residual ability.
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I lost my legs in a big crash and, of course, after that, there were times, not so much of darkness, but certainly times where it was very uncertain of what my future would hold.
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There are times I’m approaching turns with my right hand on the brake lever, I’m downshifting with my fingers, I’m controlling the throttle with my left hand and steering into the corner with only one hand on the wheel. I feel a bit like Jimi Hendrix: I play with both my hands.
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