These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

I believe that we start to see our true personalities when we go through the most difficult moments. This is when we get stronger

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.

The harder I push, the more I find within myself. I am always looking for the next step, a different world to go into, areas where I have not been before. It's lonely driving a Grand Prix car, but very absorbing. I have experienced new sensations, and I want more. That is my excitement, my motivation.

I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.

Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.