Quotes from Michael Schumacher

You win a race, the next race it's a question mark. Are you still the best or not? That's what is funny. But that's what is interesting. And that's what is challenging. You have to prove yourself every time.

My time with Ferrari was wonderful. I have found friends and had experiences that I would not want to be without.

Those who have come into Formula One without experiencing cars devoid of electronic aids will find it tough. To control 800 horse power relying just on arm muscles and foot sensitivity can turn out to be a dangerous exercise.

I have what you might call the South Pole and the North Pole. I have my team and my work, which I do on one side, and I have my family and my home on the other side. Both have nothing really to do with each other.

Nascar will certainly not be one of my challenges in the future.

In sport there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

I hate to take compromises with a racing car. The more standard a car is, the more compromises you have to take.

I didn't have statistics in my mind when I was racing. It was always a consequence - a nice consequence. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't the reason I was racing.

Let's put it this way, I like number seven.

I've always believed that you should never, ever give up and you should always keep fighting even when there's only a slightest chance.

If I didn't even stand a chance of winning races and competing for the title, I don't think I would be that interested in continuing my career.

I'm not very comfortable with what people sometimes say or think about me - things I don't feel responsible for.

I have to say it's been tough to leave the Ferrari family, which has been a big part of my career.

If you do things to the limit, and don't purposely go over that limit, then I think it's fine to do whatever you want. So long as you enjoy it. That's what's important.

In sport there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

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

Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style

On September 22, 1958, the Edmund Fitzgerald, skippered by Captain Bert Lambert, left Rouge River bound for Silver Bay, Minnesota, where it was scheduled to pick up a load of taconite pellets to be delivered to Toledo. Not surprisingly, that very first load set a tonnage record when the Fitz passed through the Soo Locks a few days later. The ship's life on the Great Lakes had begun.

A posting for a freshwater hurricane existed—two red flags with black boxes—but there was reluctance to use it. Hurricanes were considered tropical.

And no one on the surface had any idea of its fate. The

Every captain knew it was his job to deliver cargo as cheaply and as quickly as possible," one Great Lakes captain commented long after the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald, "and if you didn't measure up, the company would replace you with a captain who would measure up.

October 20, 1916, when a freshwater hurricane brought down four ships on Lake Erie, became known as Black Friday.

The November 9-10, 1975, tempest on Lake Superior eventually earned its own title: the Edmund Fitzgerald Storm.