Quotes from Fernando Alonso

McLaren was a risky project because they were completely new, but we are one team - we win and we lose together.

I am a very competitive person in everything. Not only F1 but in everyday life.

I don't have any relationship with God and I've never wanted it. I don't believe in fate or in any superior entity; if a plane crashes and people die, it's not because Heaven said so.

I am one of the best to have raced in F1. I am probably not fastest in qualifying, or the wet, but I am 9.5 in all areas. I try to benefit from that.

I adapt my driving style more or less to anything, from go-kart to motorbike to wet, more downforce, less downforce, Pirelli, Bridgestone, Michelin, V8, V6, whatever.

I feel extremely lucky and privileged to have my achievements.

Ferrari gives you a special feeling.

After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.

I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it.

Even if you have a difficult season, you still believe the following year will be better and a good one.

I am very proud to be part of this team, and I know that winning with Ferrari will mean more than winning with another team.

In life, it's winning - when I go to the supermarket, and I go with a friend, I try to get through the door first. Things like that - everything in life is a competition for me.

I miss winning. I miss being on the podium.

I always had that, even when I was a kid in a go-kart or when I was playing soccer or tennis: that need of winning. It was there all my life, and it's still there now.

I like to race, not to do laps alone.

When I take go-karts out with my friends, it's a disaster normally. But in the race car, I'm calm because they pay me to do this, and I have to be professional.

My idea is to win all the iconic motor sport races in the world.

For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.

You can play basketball and have a magic night and score 40 points with your team-mates and win the game. There are favourites for the World Cup, but you can't guarantee Germany, Spain, or Brazil will win, but here, everyone can guarantee that Mercedes or Ferrari will win the race, and this is very sad for the sport.

I'm just hungry to win.

When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide.

When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan, I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide. It's very nice if you win, but it's not so good if you lose. All this is part of being a Ferrari driver.

I have always been very calm on the outside. I'm not too stressed now just because I'm in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself.

It is difficult to take in how long you have been doing one thing when you compete at the highest level and always with the highest intensity.