An engineer can look at the data, but he needs a translator from the cockpit - the driver - to understand it completely. For example, only the driver can tell you why he abruptly takes his foot off the gas pedal at a certain point. The data doesn't necessarily tell the engineer whether the driver made a mistake at that point or the car was acting up. The information the driver provides often helps determine the direction of development.

Michael Schumacher

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I've always believed that you should never, ever give up and you should always keep fighting even when there's only a slightest chance.

Michael Schumacher

giving-up fighting chance

Never think that success is down to your own performance alone. If you start listening only to yourself you take the first step back towards the bottom. The flowers of victory belong in many vases.

Michael Schumacher

flower listening thinking

Once something is a passion, the motivation is there.

Michael Schumacher

future motivation life

Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style.

Michael Schumacher

just-being style ambition

Sometimes minor details can have a huge impact. If you don't devote 100 percent of your efforts to every detail, you immediately run into difficulties.

Michael Schumacher

impact effort running

I cant really imagine life without Formula One.

Michael Schumacher

cant formulas imagine

You win a race, the next race it’s a question mark. Are you still the best or not? That’s what is funny. But that’s what is interesting. And that’s what is challenging. You have to prove yourself every time.

Michael Schumacher

race winning motivational

Losing composure is pointless.

Michael Schumacher

composure pointless losing

You try to hide your emotions, so as not to show weaknesses to others. I believe it's the same for every sportsman.

Michael Schumacher

weakness trying believe

I always thought records were there to be broken.

Michael Schumacher

inspirational-sports broken sports

I'm Michael Schumacher. I don't need to test my driving ability.

Michael Schumacher

driving tests needs

The first thing, when I got the money, I knew I would support somebody. And the person I supported was my family. Because we were really in debt with the money. And - so I gave to my father this suitcase full of money. And he couldn't believe it. And that was something very special.

Michael Schumacher

support believe father

When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back.

Michael Schumacher

teamwork-and-love team teamwork

When you're very successful, you become careless and try to turn many things into routine.

Michael Schumacher

routine successful trying

If the sun were made of hamsters, the earth would be incinerated.

Michael Schumacher

earth would-be sun

When you are part of a community for 14 years, it inevitably shapes you. I will always have a part of Ferrari beside me; a part of my heart will always be red.

Michael Schumacher

community heart years

Every year we find something new, we go faster, and that's what Formula One is about .

Michael Schumacher

something-new faster years

If you do things to the limit, and don’t purposely go over that limit, then I think it’s fine to do whatever you want. So long as you enjoy it. That’s what’s important.

Michael Schumacher

important long thinking

Your ups and downs in sports, I think they are as normal as daily life: One day you wake up and feel great, the next day you wake up and feel maybe less great.

Michael Schumacher

next-day sports thinking

Technology has certainly reduced performance differences among drivers. Whereas a talented driver could get a half-second out of every lap in the past, nowadays talent makes up for only about one or two tenths of a second. But the driver is still the key factor.

Michael Schumacher

technology keys past