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.
You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.
My dear, dear girl [. . .] we can't turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to the hours when our lungs were sound, our blood hot, our bodies young. We are a flash of fire--a brain, a heart, a spirit. And we are three-cents-worth of lime and iron--which we cannot get back.
Life is like a box of chocolates.
If one is not happy, one has lost the very purpose of life.
You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want.
From the time an Aiel boy becomes a man he will not sing anything but battle chants, or their dirge for the slain. I have heard them singing over their dead, and over those they have killed. That song is one to make the stones weep.
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