Quotes from Michael Schumacher

I just want to be known as a very normal person and be treated as that and be able to walk down the street like anyone else.

Somehow I have managed to delay looking old. In reality I have good genes.

If you look right from the beginning of the season I've been very competitive.

If you're lucky enough to be famous, then it's great if you can use your fame and the power your fame gives you to draw attention to things that really matter.

You try to hide your emotions, so as not to show weaknesses to others. I believe it's the same for every sportsman.

My kids are not known, and I think that is very important. So far they have lived a normal life, and will continue to do so. I feel they should have the possibility to live a free life without the burden of fame I have created.

Once something is a passion, the motivation is there.

The more precisely I can drive, the more I enjoy myself.

I know what I am, and what I have to do in my profession, so I can handle the pressure. It's the way I think.

I always thought records were there to be broken.

Your ups and downs in sports, I think they are as normal as daily life: One day you wake up and feel great, the next day you wake up and feel maybe less great.

I will do everything I can to bring the Number One to Ferrari. The whole team and all the fans deserve it.

Never think that success is down to your own performance alone. If you start listening only to yourself you take the first step back towards the bottom. The flowers of victory belong in many vases.

You arrive at Formula One being very skeptical, how far can your talent deal with all this, and then you understand those guys are human and pretty reasonable, and finally succeeding in winning your first race, in circumstance as such, it was just an amazing moment.

The first thing, when I got the money, I knew I would support somebody. And the person I supported was my family. Because we were really in debt with the money. And - so I gave to my father this suitcase full of money. And he couldn't believe it. And that was something very special.

I have been a huge fan of America, as I find their way of life there is pretty unique, and I have enjoyed a lot of good times over there.

People get excited around me and behave differently than they would normally. I don't feel different from anyone else, except that I drive a racing car round in circles faster than somebody else.

In football, I need full concentration even though I really enjoy it.

When you are part of a community for 14 years, it inevitably shapes you. I will always have a part of Ferrari beside me; a part of my heart will always be red.

I like working in a team, and at Ferrari there is always good cooperation.

I retired simply because I didn't have the passion and motivation anymore; I was tired. At the time I thought, 'Well, I had a great time, there is the end.' At some moment, there is the right time to call it an end.

When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back.

I like to share my life, and spend time with someone I love. That has worked 100 per cent with my wife.

I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.