It is a huge honour to be recognised as the world's best commentator, particularly against so many sporting greats.

There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.

Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him

Mansell can see him in his earphone.

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards.

And Michael Schumacher is 37 seconds ahead, so he can refuel the car, change all four wheels, take off his helmet, have a smoke and a cup of tea, and rejoin in first.

This would have been Senna's third win a row if he'd won the two before

Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion.

The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.

We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite.

The sand in the hour glass isn't meant to stick together. It will flow exactly same today, how it did ten years back. That's how much reliable that stuff is. The stuff that can be consistent.

You can take my heart, you can take my breath when you pry it from my cold, dead chest.

We need at least one enemy to know our own stuff>>>

But you don't let true happiness slip out of your grasp without one helluva fight.

I can take care of myself! But the "external barriers", my opponents, do indeed concern me.

Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build.

There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

When we travel we find how greatly our boyhood dreams are outstripped by reality.

Dreaming was only nice while it lasted.

The more you know about something, the harder it becomes. You become more and more of a perfectionist. I think it's a curse... It's a form of illness!