The cab smelled like curry, cigarettes, and body odor, and the safety glass between me and the driver had cracks in it.

A shout from Francois hailed his appearance. “Wot I say?” the dog-driver cried to Perrault. “Dat Buck for sure learn queKek as anyt’ing.

Self-interest, to be sure, is one of the most important, but we have many other motives – honesty, self-respect, altruism, love, sympathy, faith, sense of duty, solidarity, loyalty, public-spiritedness, patriotism, and so on – that are sometimes even more important than self-seeking as the driver of our behaviors.

A driver today is an athlete out for hire, his mind is on profit.

A professional driver is not a taxi driver.

He’s a good driver of the ball. He doesn’t get himself in predicaments. He certainly has a good iron game and his short game, bar none, is one of the best.

In any profession, you should think positively. That’s the driver of your mind. If your mind is really thinking positive then you are on the right track. ‘Pleasure in what you’re doing puts perfection in your work.

I really like the Evo from ‘2Fast.’ That car is a lot of fun as a daily driver. They’re really quick on the track, too, when they’re set up right.

I shan’t be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Everything that I’ve gotten out of life was obtained through dedication and a tremendous desire to achieve my goals…a great desire for victory, meaning victory in life, not as a driver

Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than others.

And suddenly I realized that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

As a driver, it is important to focus on yourself and believe in yourself, and there shouldn’t be a reason why, when you are in F1 and there is more attention, you change your approach.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.

Water is the driver of nature.

I’m constantly watching my weight for my job, and I’ve trained so hard this year to be ready for this season-more rigorously than ever – but people who tune in to Formula One have no comprehension of what we have to do to be fit. It’s so physical. This year, the car is way faster than when you came to the race. And the physicality has gone up quite a lot, at least 20 to 30 percent. People don’t see that. They don’t see us as athletes. They just see us driving.

Michael [Schumacher] was a phenomenal driver but for me, Ayrton Senna was the greatest ever. If I could get one world championship that would be great; if I could win three, the same number as Ayrton did, that would be a dream. But I want to be the best driver there has ever been.

As a driver, you’ve always got to believe in your heart that you’ve got what it takes to win it. You’ve always got to believe in yourself. You’ve always got to arrive on the day and believe it can happen. You’ve always got to believe in the positives.

F1 is about the best drivers competing against each other for the best teams producing the best cars they can.

I want to be the best driver there has ever been.

Sure every driver has his value and you want to be respected but again money is not something that drives me.