First, you have to finish.

I've always believed that you should never, ever give up and you should always keep fighting even when there's only a slightest chance.

Never think that success is down to your own performance alone. If you start listening only to yourself you take the first step back towards the bottom. The flowers of victory belong in many vases.

Once something is a passion, the motivation is there.

Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style.

If the sun were made of hamsters, the earth would be incinerated.

I cant really imagine life without Formula One.

I'm Michael Schumacher. I don't need to test my driving ability.

Sometimes minor details can have a huge impact. If you don't devote 100 percent of your efforts to every detail, you immediately run into difficulties.

You try to hide your emotions, so as not to show weaknesses to others. I believe it's the same for every sportsman.

I always thought records were there to be broken.

Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.

I wake up wondering if I know we're near mountains because of memory or because of something in the air.

When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street it couldn't be anywhere but Canada but how can I prove it?

The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'

Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.

Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win.

Management is not a science, it is an art.

The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.

McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor.

All of life is the exercise of risk.