I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.

You tend to think that there is a big gap between F1 and everything else. F1 is where all the fantastic drivers are, so you just don't know how good you are until you get there.

Am I calm all the time? That is a question to ask my mother. I am very happy in my home. I have a good family, that gives me something extra.

Give me a few bits of wool to stick on the car, a good gust of mistral wind, and I could come up with a better aerodynamic package on the bridge at Avigon

Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything from new.

I am a professional. At the circuit I am calm. At home I am very different.

I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive.

To be honest, I am not happy about all the publicity.

You never really know how quick you are before you reach F1.

That was my dream, to drive for Ferrari, but I am not a kid any more. If Ferrari is the best team and if I get the chance to drive for Ferrari, it would be with pleasure.

I made my choice to be in Ferrari. It is not easy because it is important for a man to have satisfaction. And for me to get the satisfaction I want means getting results.

State of the Art is the frenetic and relentless pursuit of doing what its best at that time!

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Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

How forcible are right words!

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

Nobody I know got killed in South Central LA. Today was a good day.

Playing lifts you out of yourself into a delirious place.

Will the real Red Reaper please stand up?

If I can be an inspiration for someone, that's fine, but just don't look down on me. Don't say, 'Oh, you're in a wheelchair.