Michael Schumacher Quotes

This season is my most special and most cherished. All my focus is on getting that championship back here.

I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.

F1 has been my dream since I was a kid. I am here. That feeling of having achieved that and a step in my life's dream of winning the championship - there is no way I wouldn't work extremely hard - I put the time in.

To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.

I have been waiting to win a world championship since 1985. I've had three cracks at a world title - in karting, I finished third at Le Mans; that hurt because it was very close, but then in Formula One there wasn't really an opportunity to finally crack it, so it's third time lucky.

We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle.

You arrive at Formula One being very skeptical, how far can your talent deal with all this, and then you understand those guys are human and pretty reasonable, and finally succeeding in winning your first race, in circumstance as such, it was just an amazing moment.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

The day that arrives the first victory or the first win for McLaren-Honda will be a massive achievement for all of us.

Everyone loves a winner. That's just how the world is. And Ayrton Senna was one of the greatest winners this sport has ever had.

There is nothing better than being there at the end and getting your team over the line.

Every year the goal is a championship. That's what I expect.

You realize how hard it is to get there, but don't lose sight that the goal is to win a championship.

There is nothing better than playing for the championship at any level of football.

You've got to understand, I'd been trying to get to Victory Lane my whole career.

The day I do get a championship-winning car, I will run with it. I will capitalise on every part of that beautiful thing.

I won championships and races and earned my super-licence to get to Formula One. Of course, I was very fortunate to be in the position I was in, but at the same time, I delivered.

Winning the Champions League is a very particular feeling, but it's really the journey that makes it special.

For all that Michael Jordan could run, jump and entertain, he is best known for one thing: He won. If you want to be a great player in this league, you have to focus on one thing - the bottom line, which is winning.

We play to win the World Series, and that's our goal.

My target is to win the World Drivers Championship. I want to be the best.

It isn't easy to get to a final, and then winning the title is also difficult.

I can't thank all the people at Scuderia Toro Rosso enough for all their hard work.

I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.

I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.