If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn't lose focus. That made the difference..

Like a ship, a car should be named after a girl as it's sexy. My original car was called Kate. But then it got smashed at the opening race in Austral….

All these nice people saying I'm going to be world champion won't make me any faster, you have to believe it yourself..

I told you guys... don't stop believing..

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

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

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….

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

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

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

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

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….

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….

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

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

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 ….

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 ….

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….

Never lift. Never stop believing..

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….