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
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.
Interpretation
Life, like sports, has its highs and lows, which are essential parts of the experience.
Michael Schumacher emphasizes that the fluctuations in performance and feelings we encounter in sports are akin to the variability we face in everyday life. Just as athletes may experience peaks and troughs in their game, everyone experiences similar ups and downs in their personal lives, underscoring the importance of resilience and acceptance of change.
In practice
Use this quote to inspire a team during a tough season, reminding them that ups and downs are part of the journey.
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.
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.
Most of us enter adult life with great ambitions for how we will start our own ventures, but the harshness of life wears us down. We settle into some job and slowly give in to the illusion that our bosses care about us and our future, that they spend time thinking of our welfare.
Life is too short to waste . . . 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. I wish you Happy New Year and diary full of best stories ever written in your life.
What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
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