Sebastian Vettel Quotes

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

You're traveling all over the world but to be home is something special.

Maybe Ferrari's mirrors are excellent & have HD resolution

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

It was an unbelievable experience! The brakes, the g-forces and the power of the engine are beyond description. Thanks to BMW and WilliamsF1 for giving me this chance to test. The test team looked after me brilliantly and I learnt plenty.

There are a few things that make me angry. Mostly things not going my way.

What I admire is people who are grounded and resistant to all kinds of whisperings. Kimi Raikkonen, 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.

When I went into the last lap I was regretting a bit that it was over. I was enjoying again the first sector for the last time. Simply fantastic this circuit, and if you get 53 laps more, you appreciate it even more. It's made by God's hands.

Unbelievable how silly this Formula 1 is these days, with this stupid overtakes.

Teams like Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes are going to be very, very motivated to go for the titles.

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

Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

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

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

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.

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.

All in all it was a smooth race, the car was very well balanced. I'm very proud to be the first winner here in India.

I have always watched the Race of Champions on TV every year and dreamed about participating one day. It's fantastic to be invited; I'm so happy. To represent Team Germany together with Michael Schumacher is a great honor.

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

Of course, you always give 100 percent, but at a home race you're always more motivated, simply because you feel at home.

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

Generally I don't care about what people say. I have to be clear with myself. When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you.

Our car looks better than everything I've seen so far.

It's a tricky place, especially the last sector. I wasn't happy in practice. I wasn't happy with the car and I wasn't happy with myself. But I always thought there was more in the car.

We always kept believing in ourselves and our team and the car.

After 10 weeks away from Formula One, when they started the engine here at Valencia and everything was vibrating, I found myself sitting in the RB7 and smiling.

We have reason to feel good, but it's also a threat to feel too good and I will pay attention that that doesn't happen.

You can't always say what you'd like to say.

I'm German but I didn't say that. I have no moustache

Motorsport is very expensive. No one cares if you had a good season two years ago and then you have an injury. It is a very dodgy investment.

All these nice people saying I'm going to be world champion won't make me any faster, you have to believe it yourself.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

There are some things that you can fulfil 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.