“When I look fast, I’m not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.”

You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.

So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport is the long term. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.

Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.

I have had some problems because the French don’t like people to have success, they don’t like the number one.

You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work.

I work very hard and they don’t appreciate that.

It’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.

When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.

People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.

I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.

I was looking at the history of the sport and I couldn’t understand why there have been so many good South American drivers, especially Brazilians.

If I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.

Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.

I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.

I don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.

I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.

We hate so fast and we love too slow.

One difficulty follows another very fast – but God reigns, not chance.

Do not let your life, ministry or organization go faster than your resources.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Step by step you get ahead, but rarely in fast spurts.