The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair. People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don't know.

When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.

Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!

Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.

I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.

Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? - Of course it does - I'm not an idiot.

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.

...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.

And God said Let there be light: and there was light.

Learn how to ignore the examples from others when they are wrong, because few skills are more worth having.

Why do bad guys in movies always love to whistle really slowly?

Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.

Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.

O my choice beauty You've gone But your love remains in my heart Your image in my eye O guide on my winding road I keep turning round and round in the hopes of Finding you

A day doesn't go by where I don't get surprised by something.