When a man holds you round the throat, I don't think he has come to apologise.

We are made of emotions, we are all looking for emotions, it's only a question of finding the way to experience them. There are many different ways of experience them all. Perhaps one different thing, only that, one particular thing that Formula One can provide you, is that you know we are always expose to danger, danger of getting hurt, danger of dying.

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

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

Once you are in it you are in it, you have to go all the way to the end because you commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise. You give everything you have absolutely everything. Sometimes you find even more because you require more if you want to stay ahead and you want to win.

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 started racing go-karts. And I love karts. It's the most breath taking sport in the world. More than F1, indeed, I used to like it most.