The moment money becomes your motivation, you are immediately not as good as someone who is stimulated by passion and internal will..

When you walk the track and you see a corner and realise you were going round it at 160mph, you wonder who could be so stupid to take a corner at tha….

I remember my first test in F1. After five laps, I came back to the pits and tried to play it cool - 'Oh yeah, I'm fine, I'm on top of this' - but I ….

Generally I don't care about what people say. I have to be clear with myself. When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes….

Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in..

It's correct that I'm a bad loser. Why should I lie? If I was good at losing I wouldn't be in Formula 1. I think it's more honest to act how you real….

There is no reason not to be motivated. You cannot always be the best. But you can do your best..

If anyone can achieve the impossible it’s you. Please, please, get it again..

I don't care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it..

Never lift. Never stop believing..

You can't always say what you'd like to say..

I have one quote I very often read to myself, from a very good friend: 'Forget the people around you now; remember the little boy who was racing in g….

What I admire is people who are grounded and resistant to all kinds of whisperings. Kimi Raikkonen, for example. You may like him or not, but he live….

There are some things that you can fulfil with money, but at the end of the day these are not the things that make you happy. It is the small things ….

As a driver, your target is always to be with the most competitive team possible..

When I went into the last lap I was regretting a bit that it was over. I was enjoying again the first sector for the last time. Simply fantastic this….

At the end of your life, it's friendships, emotions and thoughts that you take with you, rather than what's in your bank account. So, even though peo….

You can't change what happened. But you can still change what will happen..

There are a few things that make me angry. Mostly things not going my way..

I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together..

I'm German but I didn't say that. I have no moustache..