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"From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy."
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"Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples."

"I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement."

"Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life. (Address to Congress on Resigning Commission Dec 23, 1783)"

"I'm never gonna play again, and I know I'm really, really going to miss it."

"Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire."

"Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book."

"I didn't want to stay until I had used up all the enjoyment because that's too long to stay anywhere."
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"There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today."

"I'm not going away. I'll still be very much involved in the team but not with the same number of hours. I need to move over and allow the people who are really doing the job the space to do so."

"There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world."

"I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular."

"We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous."

"We have had more sales for this year's grand prix than any other, and we have been helped in that by the fact that Jenson had 10 podiums last season and looks like a winner. It is good for British motor racing if he is there and doing well."

"It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins."

"The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings."
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