If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my career. I haven't tried to do things in an underhanded way.

Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.

If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.

The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.

After you've had Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna as team-mates you don't give a **** who the next bloke is

People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.

Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we could look at winning more races. Three race wins would be very satisfying.

To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.

I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.

Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners.

The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen.

America is not another word for Opportunity to all her sons.

Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.

Some thoughts always find us young and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

I'm very mechanical, so if I have one thing that's going in the wrong direction when I'm hitting, it's hard for me to get a hit.

I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies.

We are born with magic inside of us

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

If you want to communicate, use the telephone

To move foward, you have to leave the past behind

We all have our essential nature. If you're good with numbers, you don't even know you're good with numbers because that's how your mind works.