Enzo Ferrari left this world leaving lots of statements. Some without much repercussion, others of anthology. Swipe, don’t miss the top ten of the most famous phrases of the “Wizard of Maranello”.
The essence of Ferrari, its idiosyncrasy, seems to collide even with its own founder. The Cavallino does not negotiate design, aesthetics is as important as mechanics. For Enzo-FerrariHowever, the engine was everything and he felt a deep nostalgia for it. That is just a simple preview of what you will read next.
Internal confrontations with pilots and engineers, father hurt by the premature loss of his son, motivating, direct and without turns, staunch provocateur. A subject of clear ideas. The story of Enzo Ferrari has been used both by his machines full of life and by his anthology phrases. On a new anniversary of his death, these are his ten most memorable phrases:
10) A shaker
A promoter and agitator of ideas.
As a child, Enzo Ferrari had already felt his vocation. Although his first encounters were the engineering of parts and mechanics, his fleeting career as a pilot was soon overshadowed by his true reason for being: “I have never considered myself an engineer or inventor, I only consider myself a promoter and agitator of ideas“.
9) His wife and discord
If the colonel leaves…
The incorporation of Laura Garello, his wife, to the Ferrari administration aroused the annoyance of the engineers for how their way of working was and their chain of success. Enzo Ferrari launched a stimulating comment to those who were still in their posts: “If the colonel leaves, we will make it with the sergeant.” After the reorganization of the personnel and the appointment of a new man in charge of the Racing Department, Ferrari won 15 titles between Le Mans and Formula 1.
8) Your “no” phrases
Phrases are attributed to me that I have never said.
It sounds ironic to include a phrase by Enzo Ferrari that has to do with the ones that never came out of his mouth. The Commentattore’s statements were characterized by their mocking and suggestive tones and, in one of his usual meetings with journalists, he said: “I like to meet with you and read your articles. There I discover that brilliant phrases are attributed to me that I have never said or thought-out”.
7) Motivation
Fire in the blood.
Despite his spicy and provocative phrases, with hints and ironies in between, the Commendatore occasionally appealed to motivation: “No man will be the best if he does not have fire in the blood“.
6) Forceful with aerodynamics
Aerodynamics is for losers.
One of his most famous phrases, as it pointed to the concept that would change the course of motorsports forever. “The aerodynamics It’s for failures who don’t know how to make motors”, signed Don Enzo. Forceful and to the bone.
5) A lucky dream
A dream for the lucky few who have it.
Ferrari was the first to know what his creation was about. The brand exclusivity was always his starting point: “The Ferrari is a dream, a dream for the lucky few who have it and for the majority of people who don’t”.
4) The “perfect” pilot
Above all, be powerless.
At times, Enzo Ferrari felt misunderstood. He believed that racers were incapable of knowing Ferrari cars as Ferrari itself knew them. In this context, Enzo defined your racing driver archetype: “A pilot must be a magnificent sportsman, a man without fame and, above all, impotent, because in this way he will be prevented from being late for any test.” Another of his ironic and famous phrases.
3) Grief for his son and “the cathedral of motoring”
I forget everything, time ceases to exist.
The death of Alfredino “Dino” Ferrari at the age of 24 distanced Enzo from the church. The premature loss of him led to, perhaps, his most heartbreaking phrase: “When I sit on my son’s grave, I forget everything. Time ceases to exist and it does me good to think that I am nothing”, a vulnerable Enzo was honest and then launched an analogy between his cars and his distance from Catholicism: “Do I think that Ferrari is the cathedral of motorsport? It depends on the religion to which one belongs.
2) The engine was everything
The rest I give you for free.
One of his most remembered phrases. It is that, for Enzo Ferrari, the engine was the soul of those living creatures that cars represented for him. Therefore, one of his principles was that “when you buy a Ferrari, you are paying for the engine. The rest I give you for free”.
1) The soul of the machines
When an engine breaks, that causes acute suffering.
Neither the press, nor its employees, nor the pilots. His most inspiring phrase has been dedicated to the vehicles, his most intimate love: “The machines are our creatures. We transform an inanimate material into something vital, sound. When an engine breaks, it causes acute suffering.” Heart and soul, engines were that for their cars, for cars in general. Undoubtedly, the most romantic phrase of Enzo Ferrari.
Enzo Ferrari first raced, then made his cars race, then founded his brand and was always dedicated to stirring up ideas, as he himself maintained. He was a subject of the word, with a tongue sharp enough to give rise to the classic rivalry with Lamborghini or go from friendship to hatred with the Ford Motor Company. His physical departure occurred on August 14, 1988. His sentences, however, never seem to die.