I didn't have statistics in my mind when I was racing. It was always a consequence - a nice consequence. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't the reason I was racing.

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.

Emotion is not what makes us weak. It's what makes us human, The ability to care, even if people often do not.

The miraculous intimacy we shared did not have the time to generate into resentful emotional bondage

It's kind of cool that we've quietly been selling a million albums. We knew the album wasn't going to debut at No. 1. I'm stoked to see us being successful again.

That's the same thing that is making me like George W. Bush. "He was nice. I know he was nice. He didn't know what he was doing but he was nice."

To be honest I am not lookin to be romantic, already got someone at home

Some things are better done than said.

Never grieve for me if it is my good fortune to die with my boots on. That's what I most hope for.

I know that somehow, every step I took since the moment I could walk was a step towards finding you.

I've got thick skin and an elastic heart.

What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.