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

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.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.

What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.

I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions and millions of dollars outside of the control of a candidate - there's no accountability.

From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.

Then I decided I couldn't just crawl in the corner and die, so I started putting pen to paper and wrote some songs. I had no idea what for or who I was going to work with. I tried to find my way and direction.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.

The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.

Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.

I'm into the idea of responsibility and edification and these things have found me and I have found them. I wanted to be in the movie and I made it known to Mike.

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don't even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It's enough to know that Israelis are Jews.