Quotes

Like a ship, a car should be named after a girl as it's sexy. My original car was called Kate. But then it got smashed at the opening race in Australia. So we called this one Kate's Dirty Sister because it is more aggressive and faster.

There is no reason not to be motivated. You cannot always be the best. But you can do your best.

When you walk the track and you see a corner and realize you were going round it at 160mph, you wonder who could be so stupid to take a corner at that speed. But in the car, you don't even think about that.

As a driver, your target is always to be with the most competitive team possible.

Never lift. Never stop believing.

You can't change what happened. But you can still change what will happen.

It's very shocking for me to see pictures from my win here in 2008. I aged.

Whenever I have to do something, I try to minimize the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait.

I don't care what other people think as long as I am happy. The day I die or retire, I have blown all my chances because I don't have the chance any more to change my image as an F1 driver.

Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It's like a rush, I really enjoy that.

I have one quote I very often read to myself, from a very good friend: 'Forget the people around you now; remember the little boy who was racing in go-karts, what you were dreaming of and what he wanted to achieve one day and what was his goal. Race for him.'. I fell in love with the sport, I love racing. The amount of satisfaction I get just going around in a Formula 1 car makes me smile. So if it is a bad day then you tend to come out and say it's horrible and you don't enjoy. But if you had to pick between that and doing nothing, you would always pick that.

If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn't lose focus. That made the difference.

The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous.

At the end of your life, it's friendships, emotions and thoughts that you take with you, rather than what's in your bank account. So, even though people don't have a lot here, they are a lot richer in many ways and we can learn from that.

I told you guys... don't stop believing.

Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.

I don't care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it.

I remember my first test in F1. After five laps, I came back to the pits and tried to play it cool - 'Oh yeah, I'm fine, I'm on top of this' - but I was completely lost.

I put everything in that last lap, it was very emotional when I crossed the line. It was all I had, I gave it all.

The moment money becomes your motivation, you are immediately not as good as someone who is stimulated by passion and internal will.

There are some things that you can fulfill with money, but at the end of the day these are not the things that make you happy. It is the small things that make life good.

I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.

It's correct that I'm a bad loser. Why should I lie? If I was good at losing I wouldn't be in Formula 1. I think it's more honest to act how you really feel than pretending to be the smiling boy who actually isn't in the mood to smile.

Looking back is only going to slow you down.

The next stage of Sebastian Vettel Formula One career will be spent with Scuderia Ferrari and for Sebastian Vettel Scuderia Ferrari means the dream of a lifetime has come true, When I was a kid, Michael Schumacher in the red car was my greatest idol and now it 's an incredible honor to finally get the chance to drive a Ferrari.

What I admire is people who are grounded and resistant to all kinds of whisperers. Kimi Räikkönen, for example. You may like him or not, but he lives his way. He does the things he has identified as worthy for him and he is not trying to be everybody's darling. At least he doesn't give that impression. He is straightforward and honest and he tells you if he has a bad day. Period. He is real. He's not political. He's never up to something. If he doesn't want to tell you something he will say so and not hum and haw. He doesn't beat around the bush, never coming to the point.

[on team radio] There's something loose between my legs, apart from the obvious! So something flying around my feet. [Ok, copy!] Yeah... Around my feet, I mean, I'd be proud if it was what you think it is but it's not!