Try to achieve the impossible and direct your people to ways of achieving it.

I want Dubai to be a place where everybody from all over the world meets each other, don't think of fighting or hate, just love it, enjoy their sport, and that's it.

There is no Dubai and Abu Dhabi; we are one. Whoever doesn't understand this should do their homework before they start talking. We will be there for each other when we need it.

Dubai will never settle for anything less than first place.

Opportunities are made, they do not just lie around waiting for someone to grab them.

An easy life does not make men, nor does it build nations. Challenges make men, and it is these men who build nations.

The race for excellence has no finish line.

There is a wide knowledge gap between us and the developed world in the West and in Asia. Our only choice is to bridge this gap as quickly as possible, because our age is defined by knowledge.

We should always be practical, realistic and optimistic.

Not every rider is a horseman and not every horseman is a knight.

No one in the Emirates is above the law and accountability.

He was being about as protective as a can-opener.

My idea of government support was, you supply me with hospitals, schools and the environment to do well and that will do me fine. But do not poke your nose in my business.

If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.

I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.

A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine.

Jeff [Gordon] doesn't sit down and explain things. We don't sit and have meetings where I'm the student. He really teaches by example. I've learned a lot on and off the racetrack.

All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.

Musashi, who trained himself, became a master swordsman who was never defeated.

It ain't easy being cheesy!

I grow numb; I grow stiff. How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart?