Michael Schumacher

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.

Your ups and downs in sports, I think they are as normal as daily life: One day you wake up and feel great, the next day you wake up and feel maybe less great.

You win a race, the next race it’s a question mark. Are you still the best or not? That’s what is funny. But that’s what is interesting. And that’s what is challenging. You have to prove yourself every time.

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.

I didn't have statistics in my mind when I was racing. It was always a consequence - a nice consequence. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't the reason I was racing.

I hate to take compromises with a racing car. The more standard a car is, the more compromises you have to take.

You try to hide your emotions, so as not to show weaknesses to others. I believe it's the same for every sportsman.

I know what I am, and what I have to do in my profession, so I can handle the pressure. It's the way I think.

In sport there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style.

I decided on a vision. I think I maybe join Toyota at the midpoint of a project, whose long-term goal is winning world championships. Also I have my big ambition, the drivers' world championship. That is not abandoned - entirely the opposite. I am young enough and motivated enough to make a new start in order to reach this goal.