Quotes by Enzo Ferrari

About Enzo Ferrari:

Enzo Anselmo 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 (the Great Old Man)".
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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.

Enzo Ferrari

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.

Enzo Ferrari

One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death.

Enzo Ferrari

Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.

Enzo Ferrari

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.

Enzo Ferrari

Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines.

Enzo Ferrari

The client is not always right.

Enzo Ferrari

I believe most things can be said in a few lines.

Enzo Ferrari

It's true that I have never met any man whom I thought altogether resembled me - but only because my faults are so enormous.

Enzo Ferrari

I build engines and attach wheels to them.

Enzo Ferrari

The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.

Enzo Ferrari

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.

Enzo Ferrari

Author Bio

  • NameEnzo Ferrari
  • DescriptionItalian racecar driver, engineer and entrepreneur
  • BornFebruary 18, 1898
  • DiedAugust 14, 1988
  • CountryItaly
  • ProfessionRacing Driver; Entrepreneur; Engineer