I know what I am, and what I have to do in my profession, so I can handle the pressure. It's the way I think.

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.

You don't need to play every ball but every ball needs your judgement.

Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball.

This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self.

We love our planet Earth. We should - it is our home, and there's no place like home. There can't ever be a better place than Earth.

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

You can call me Patch. No really. Call me.

I always felt that's why people buy records anyhow is because they get that vicarious excitement and thrill that they don't get unless they buy your record.

There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.

Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

Smell the cheese often so you know when it is getting old.