"On any given day, under given circumstances, you think you have a limit and you go touch this limit and then you think, ok, this is the limit. Suddenly, something happens and you realise that you can suddenly go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and your experience as well, you can fly very high."

"Being second, is to be the first of the ones who lose."

"Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else." "It's going to be a life with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that i'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen."