Jean Todt's system will never succeed, not even with Michael Schumacher.

Really, you should always discuss the defeats because you can learn much more from failure than from success.

You appreciate that it is very easy to die and you have to arrange your life to cope with that reality.

You have a brake in your brain that stops you doing stupid things. The older you are, the earlier that brake comes on. When you're 20 you stop at nothing; when you're older you're cleverer than when you're 20, so your brain brake operates more often!

Giving up is something a Lauda doesn't do.

I maintain that the maxim is still to be faster than the others.

The alliance with air Berlin is attractive for me. I can use the whole sales network of the air Berlin and 24 percent of my own airline at air Berlin sold.