A battle is developing between them' I say developing, because it's not yet on.

There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing.

And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself.

I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.

There's nothing wrong with the car except that it's on fire.

Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

I've no idea what Eddie Irvine's orders are, but he's following them superlatively well.

This circuit is interesting because it has inclines and declines. Not just up, but down as well.

Either the car is stationary, or it's on the move.

IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards.

And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing.

I should imagine that the conditions in the cockpit are totally unimaginable.

Well, now we have exactly the same situation as at the beginning of the race, only exactly opposite.

He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed.

A battle is developing between them' I say developing, because it's not yet on.

Even in five years time, he will still be four years younger than Damon Hill.

I can't believe what's happening visually, in front of my eyes.

Eight minutes past the hour here in Belgium - and presumably eight minutes past the hour everywhere in the world.

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.

Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does.

With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go.

Schumacher wouldn't have let him past voluntarily. Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.

I wish we had a system where you are given a bill including service and that people were paid properly so they didn't have to rely on tips. In different restaurants there are different policies and it's all very confusing.

I'm a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I'm commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car.

Theres nothing wrong with the car except that its on fire.

Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion.

The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter.

Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon.

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.

A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers.

From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.

As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.