“Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.”

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.

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

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.

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

When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that’s the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing.

I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.

We had the same mentality – politically, and in a lot of other different ways.

To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them (“les orienter”, Fr.) in a new spirit.

It’s about up here man [points to his head]. All these guys are not with me mentally.

I have the mentality that if you come in playing not to get hurt.

How they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.

Demagoguery and populism are rampant. We are the illegitimate children, the bastards of communism. It shaped our mentality.

Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.