To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.

The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure.

I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.

It is a big problem and so I don't know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari.

How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?

Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.

I'm Valentino Rossi. And I want to be a person, not an icon.

I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.

As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.

If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.

It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine.

But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more.

I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.

We have the 2004 M1 here for reference, which is useful. It worked well here last year; we won the race and always did fast lap times so it will be interesting to compare it to the new bike and it will help us to understand which parts have improved.

I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.

In my opinion we are at the limit now, and 17 races is really too much. With all the testing that we do now, it means we're always on the bike and it's quite difficult.

To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.

In 2002 the Yamaha was at more or less the same level as the Honda, better in some ways, worse in others. But in the winter of last year between 2002 and 2003, Honda made a big step forward and it seemed as if Yamaha couldn't quite match that improvement.

Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.

Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.

My normal life is like being on holiday.

The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.

The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike... you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it's true.

To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.

Maybe the bike is more dangerous but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.

Riding a race bike is an art a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

I dont like being famous it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

Riding a bike is like an artsomething you do because feel something inside.

The speed is something dangerous but very exciting.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.

Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, it is asking the UN for help.

You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got.

We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place.

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.