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"I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways."
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"I am better than my reputation."
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"Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left."
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"Unlike wealth, fame makes it easier for some men and more difficult for some to sleep around."
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"If you are a giant mountain, you cannot escape from being famous; all that you can do is to pray for the fog to cover you up!"
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"I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair."
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"He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world."
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"A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment."
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"The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you."
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"Like it or not, your life-what works well and what doesn't-is largely the result of the first impressions you have created along the way."
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"That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!"
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"If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my career. I haven't tried to do things in an underhanded way."
Career
"The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen."
Work
"Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action."
Action
"The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been taken off the air. It is beamed into people's living rooms on Sunday afternoons, with children watching."
People
"If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas."
Will
"I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews."
Time
"If someone is being absolutely critical of me as a driver, what could they say? I am also critical of myself to try and keep things in perspective. That is very important."
Being
"Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick."
Time
"There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident."
Life
"I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself."
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