People get excited around me and behave differently than they would normally. I don't feel different from anyone else, except that I drive a racing car round in circles faster than somebody else.

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.

Being an artist is a job for life.

One of the things that is interesting about reading conspiracy theory is that much of what folks think is conspiracy is really many people acting in concert to make or protect their money.

The Ministry places a rather higher value on my life than yours, I’m afraid.

I wish I could do an entire spa day.

What scared me the most was when my father would put on the gasmask. His face would disappear... This was not a human being at all.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign.