Felipe Massa Quotes

If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.

I really want to thank Red Bull Racing and Dr. Helmut Marko for the confidence they have in me.

Being team-mate to Michael Schumacher at Benetton in my first year of Formula One was certainly a high pressure situation.

As a racing driver, everything you do is to get to Formula 1 and one day it stops.

When you are a kid racing karts, you want to be an F1 driver.

I wanted to be a professional motor racer. It was only due to lack of sponsors that I could not do it.

Being an F1 driver is a crazy job but not what everyone expects. My year consists of 20% driving and 80% media, marketing, and travel.

It's a big step coming from Caterham into the Sauber team.

The McLaren prizes can only help me in my quest to ultimately reach Formula One.

When I said I wanted to get back racing my dream was to be an F1 driver. I didn't know how realistic that was going to be until I'd driven again.

My career in racing started at a very young age in California.

I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

I believe to have been one of the rare drivers to have returned to Ferrari.

My goal is to be a racer, and I want to be someone who inspires Americans to watch Formula One.

Winning in Monaco is always special. That track has always been good to me. I won there in Formula 3000, battled for the victory with Williams in 2006 and now I've won two of the last three grands prix there.

I was always interested in maybe being in Formula E as I said many times when I was still racing in F1.

To be announced as a race driver for McLaren is a dream come true.

I was fascinated by racing as a kid, but no way would I have thought I'd make it into Formula One from here, from being from Perth, racing on little local go-kart tracks, you know.

For me, I have a chance to race in F1, a chance I did not think I would have.

It was always a dream for me to come to Jordan. Of course I want to be back in Formula One.

Every racing driver in the world dreams of making it to F1, there's only 22 spots on the grid.

Jules Bianchi was my racing godfather, and he spoke a lot to Ferrari about me.

I've been fortunate to drive for some of the greats in racing.

My big break came at 22 years old when I joined the Mercedes Benz touring championship team.

I never really looked at Formula One like that was the long-term goal. I obviously dreamed, and my aspirations were to get to Formula One, but I really started thinking about it in Formula 3 at 16, 17 years old, and I saw that it was right in front of me.