Fabrizio Frizzi

"Something strange happens: I feel closer to my deceased parents, I think about them intensely while I wait for her [referring to his daughter], as if I were finally able to see things from their perspective. It's a new position for me. It's too late to pay tribute to them, so I'll try to make up for it by being a good father and scholar. [1]"

"For me, the arrival of my daughter was a burst of enthusiasm and death. We will have a condensed time. I will talk to her from day one. I don't want her to find out who her father was after I'm gone. Even now, I try to capture every moment. I write. I take photographs."

"Max Biaggi has never had it easy in life and has had to and must continually fight for his certainties. He has a sense of revenge against something that only he knows; this is why he wants to prove, to himself before others, that he is a strong person. As a rider, he is a great professional, someone who takes nothing for granted and who physically prepares himself more and better than the previous year. When he gets on his bike, he is a beast fuelled by his successes, but when he takes off his racing suit, he is an exceptional guy with a complex personality, but also very tender, affectionate and sensitive."

"Until 23 October, the day I suffered a stroke, I thought of my 60s as the ideal age, when you are mature, can make the right choices, yet still feel fresh and youthful. After the 23rd, my perspective changed slightly: at this age, you enter a funnel that narrows your horizon, you see life thinning out, assuming that life continues, you make important assessments about living the relationships that matter, you no longer waste time, you prioritise the fundamental things. Yes, it's a great achievement, but I remain enthusiastic and I haven't given up hope of resuming a life full of energy, even if my legs are a little weak."

"Becoming a father at an advanced age, as happened to me, was a choice made out of love and not an act of selfishness: having a partner who is much younger than me, I know that Stella is in good hands and that makes me feel better about the concerns related to my age. I fight to continue to see my child grow up, to be there for her and be a point of reference."

"In theory, I am in the worst possible condition to host an entertaining game show [L'Eredità], but my desire to play and to entertain the contestants and the audience at home overcomes any physical obstacle, and I find myself joking and bantering with them in a way I never did before: paradoxically, my illness has become an added value, an enrichment in my work."