I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.

I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.

I remember in the first part of the race I was sixth and I could have gone quicker, but I had to go slow. It was one of the most difficult things I have ever done.

That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.

When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that's the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing.

Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.

I don't like to go over curbs, because I don't want to be hard on the car.

I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.

It's like when people talk about driving F1 cars in the rain. I have absolutely no problem with it.

Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.

It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.

The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair. People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don't know.

You were not in control You had no visibility: maybe there was a car in front of you, maybe not.

I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money.

People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.

You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work.

Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.

One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car.

You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.

I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.

So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.

It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.

I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk.

I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari because we would have fun but then they could Anot stop having fun and go back to the real work.

'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.

English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the squads they have until it re-opens.

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it.

It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.

I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.

No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind.

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.