Every day, every year, every new season is a reset from the last, and you are still hungry for success, to do things better and better.Collection: Success
It is true - maybe with five or seven points more, I could be five times world champion. But on the other hand, I could have zero world championships, and zero wins or zero podiums, because F1 is an extremely competitive environment. So I just take the positives, and I am happy with my achievements.Collection: Positive
Even if you have a difficult season, you still believe the following year will be better and a good one.
I am very proud to be part of this team, and I know that winning with Ferrari will mean more than winning with another team.
It is difficult to take in how long you have been doing one thing when you compete at the highest level and always with the highest intensity.
I am one of the best to have raced in F1. I am probably not fastest in qualifying, or the wet, but I am 9.5 in all areas. I try to benefit from that.
In life, it's winning - when I go to the supermarket, and I go with a friend, I try to get through the door first. Things like that - everything in life is a competition for me.
I always had that, even when I was a kid in a go-kart or when I was playing soccer or tennis: that need of winning. It was there all my life, and it's still there now.
I don't want to just be a good driver: I want to be a complete driver and hopefully the best driver in the world.
I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested.
I have always been very calm on the outside. I'm not too stressed now just because I'm in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself.
I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it.
For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.
When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide.
Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But I know it is not easy to create a top team from zero. You need good riders, good staff, a lot of preparation and, most important, a lot of sponsors.
When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan, I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide. It's very nice if you win, but it's not so good if you lose. All this is part of being a Ferrari driver.
McLaren was a risky project because they were completely new, but we are one team - we win and we lose together.
With Ferrari sometimes, you win or you lose depending on what the mood of the team in general, of the group in general.
You can play basketball and have a magic night and score 40 points with your team-mates and win the game. There are favourites for the World Cup, but you can't guarantee Germany, Spain, or Brazil will win, but here, everyone can guarantee that Mercedes or Ferrari will win the race, and this is very sad for the sport.
When I take go-karts out with my friends, it's a disaster normally. But in the race car, I'm calm because they pay me to do this, and I have to be professional.
The day that arrives the first victory or the first win for McLaren-Honda will be a massive achievement for all of us.
I adapt my driving style more or less to anything, from go-kart to motorbike to wet, more downforce, less downforce, Pirelli, Bridgestone, Michelin, V8, V6, whatever.
I thought I would be a go-kart mechanic - not an F1 driverCollection: Would Be
I don't have any relationship with God and I've never wanted it. I don't believe in fate or in any superior entity; if a plane crashes and people die, it's not because Heaven said so.Collection: Believe
I have always been very calm on the outside.Collection: Stressed Out
The race is lost. You can't overtake here and I'm starting from 15th... It's over already.Collection: Race
My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me my first go-kart and a magician's kit.Collection: Two
Totally uneventful. It was a very successful first flight. To be honest, it was a little bit boring.Collection: Airplane
I will be going to Belgium to win -- and we will see how the weekend develops from there.Collection: Weekend
This is a fantastic fight for the championship. I'm really confident and believe we can do it.Collection: Believe
It was a bit of a surprise for us that we had problems in Hungary. But in reality, I think the car could have been pretty competitive with a trouble-free race.Collection: Reality