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.
Michael SchumacherRead
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.
Interpretation
Success is a collective achievement that depends on others, not just individual efforts.
This quote by Michael Schumacher emphasizes that true success is not solely a result of one's own actions but is influenced by collaboration and the contributions of others. It suggests that becoming self-absorbed can lead to a decline in performance and that the rewards of victory should be shared and celebrated with all who have played a role in achieving it.
In practice
In a graduation speech to highlight the importance of collaboration in achieving goals.
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.
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.
All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.
Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall.
In my first year, when I was driving in runs, winning games and making headlines, there was an old man who came to games at Seals Stadium, and one day he called me over, introduced himself and told me not to believe anything written about me or think too much of all the accolades.
The defining factor [for success] is never resources; it’s resourcefulness.
Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
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