Fernando Alonso

“I feel extremely lucky and privileged to have my achievements.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Even if you have a difficult season, you still believe the following year will be better and a good one.”

“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.”

“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 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'm just hungry to win.”

“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.”

“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.”

“In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One.”

“My idea is to win all the iconic motor sport races in the world.”

“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.”

“My parents are very similar to me.”

“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.”

“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.”

“For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.”

“With Ferrari sometimes, you win or you lose depending on what the mood of the team in general, of the group in general.”

“If you challenge yourself and try to be the best in all areas, you have to be a complete driver.”