In 2009, I Didn't Like That Yamaha

Nowadays, We Have To Deal With So Many More Factors That Weren't There In The Past. It's Not Enough To Be A Good Rider, If You Want To Finish At The Front. The Riders Have Become Incredible Athletes. In The Past, You Could Manage The Race And Fight Only On The Last Laps. Now You Need To Train Hard. You Cannot Allow Yourself To Go On Track Without Being At 100 Percent.

However I Am Looking Forward To The Two New Grands Prixs Both Shanghai And Laguna Seca Are Fantastic Tracks And It Will Be Good To Race At Them.

You Need To Realise That, If You Want To Go On, You Have To Work Hard. If You Dwell Too Much On Your Past Successes And Say "well, I Have Won Nine World Titles And More Than 100 Races", You'd Rather Stay Home. The Sport, Your Rivals, The Tyres, Your Motorcycle, Everything Changes So Instead You Need To Work More To Be Stronger. If You Don't, You're Finished.

I'm Valentino Rossi. And I Want To Be A Person, Not An Icon.

We Kept On Racing, Doing Something That Luis [salom] Loved. Fortunately Or Unfortunately, Life Goes On.