Jenson Button Quotes

• I felt confident at 24, but I am a better driver now.

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• I don’t purposely speed, but I might go over by five or six miles an hour from time to time. It doesn’t give me a buzz driving on normal roads, because I can’t go fast enough. It’s never going to be anything like an F1 car.

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• I can’t eat whatever I want, definitely not. I’m always controlled because I do a lot of fitness and triathlons, not just Formula One, so I always make sure I eat the right things.

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• I always think I should try to get to bed early, but then I can’t stop myself from watching telly and fiddling around on the net.

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• For me, triathlons were something that was down to me and my fitness. Now, I really enjoy the pain in the triathlon of chasing someone down. It’s a bit like chasing down Nico Rosberg in the last few laps at Silverstone – it makes you feel alive.

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• I always sleep really well, particularly before a race, when the adrenaline’s pumping.

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• A lot of people think Formula One isn’t a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we’re pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles.

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• My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because I was always daydreaming about racing. I never thought for a moment about doing anything else. There was no guarantee that I’d make a career in it but I never had any plan B.

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Jenson Button (48)

Birth:	19th January, 1980
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Racer

About

Jenson Alexander Lyons Button was born in Frome, Somerset, England. He is a British racing driver currently under contract with McLaren-Honda, as a reserve driver. He won the 2009 Formula One World Championship, driving for Brawn GP. He first drove in Formula One with Williams for the 2000 season. From the 306 races that Button has started he has won 15, with a total of 50 podium finishes.

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