If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As a driver, you always dream of winning a F1 race, and to win so early on in my career was very special.
I've had dreams - there were three things I wanted to do during my career. I did them during my first year of Grand Prix.
My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd spend one lifetime each in embryology, genetics, physics, astronomy and geology. The other lifetimes would be as a pianist, backwoodsman, tennis player, or writer for the 'National Geographic.'
If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.
For me, since I have a life wish, not a death wish, for me, I was not gambling my life. I was doing something much more beautiful. I was carrying my life across.
It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
I made my choice to be in Ferrari. It is not easy because it is important for a man to have satisfaction. And for me to get the satisfaction I want means getting results.
No wishes are silly, no dreams remain dreams, for those committed to clear and definitive goals.
If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.
My new life goes beyond my dreams because my dream was Formula One and I achieved it. I'm a driver, I feel like a driver. I have won this race because I am alive.