Fernando Alonso Quotes

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

In sport there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

You arrive at Formula One being very skeptical, how far can your talent deal with all this, and then you understand those guys are human and pretty reasonable, and finally succeeding in winning your first race, in circumstance as such, it was just an amazing moment.

By 2002 we might be championship challengers. But I want to race fast. I want to become world champion myself.

It's been a big challenge to get into F1.

I think F1 have always had smaller teams and that's been fighting it out and being there and like you say, its been a perfect place for young drivers who come into F1 to gain experience.

I believe I have earned my shot in F1. I have won F3, and we all know F3 is a very high level.

I need to do well and show I'm a worthy driver in F1.

I'm not here for anything other than world championships. I don't want to be here driving around and finishing races and scoring points. I only want to win and if I can't do that - if I can't see that I have a future with wins and championships - then I'm not up for Formula One, I'll do something else where I can win.

Formula One is one of the biggest and most competitive sports in the world and our desire is to get back to be giving Mercedes a hard time and winning races and championships.

There's obviously a lot of drivers that are in F1 because they're one of the best drivers out there, so I can learn from everyone.

I will give my very best to develop both as a driver, and to be part of the challenge to put the Sauber F1 Team back closer to the front where it belongs.

In F1, we see teams spending ridiculous amounts of money. That's the sport.

How many points, how many races you can win, how many times you be on the podium. That's the name of the game.

My extensive career, with its victories and defeats, championships, etc., has been well documented. My entire life has been focused on being the best race car driver I can be.

Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.

If I can win a Cup race, that would pretty much show my whole career that I've been able to win in everything I've gotten into.

I was quite emotional when I finished my lap, but had to wait for other drivers to cross the line to hear whether I'd actually done it. It feels very special, but I acknowledge that the old master, Nigel Mansell, took his 14 poles from only 16 races.

They say Formula One is a market which it can't be, obviously. Our market is independent, it's a sport.

I race to win, not to please people.

I will do everything I can to bring the Number One to Ferrari. The whole team and all the fans deserve it.

So many people have that story as to how they could have maybe won the Indy 500, which is for me the ultimate goal. I would imagine for a lot of people it's the ultimate goal. It's definitely high up on the list.

I have been waiting to win a world championship since 1985. I've had three cracks at a world title - in karting, I finished third at Le Mans; that hurt because it was very close, but then in Formula One there wasn't really an opportunity to finally crack it, so it's third time lucky.

The place where I had so much success as a driver would be where I had my first win as a team owner.