"Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better."

"The advantage we have in the championship means that I can ride at each of the remaining six rounds without pressure to try to win every race,"

"Records are not the most important thing but I am very happy to have the same number of victories as 'Mike the Bike',"

"I always race to win, but last year it was like a motocross track and there was so much sand out there. I've got really bad memories of last year and you could say I have a score to settle with the circuit,"

"I am not sure what will happen in the race, and I am a little worried."

"I am disappointed because I wanted to win the first race of the season but there is nothing we can do now. I'm looking forward to the next race in Qatar."

"I'm lucky because I don't feel too much pressure - it's only in the last hour before the race, and even then it's good, positive pressure."

"I am very happy. I know I gave more than 100% in the race, and we had a lot of problems this weekend,"

"It's going to be a really difficult race because it's such a demanding circuit,"

"For me, it was the best race of the year,"

"He ran a great race, but he made a little mistake and made it easy for me, ... It was a great weekend for us."

"It was a tough race with quite a few strong riders battling it out at the finish. It was not easy to overtake, but a few of them managed to do it."

"It was a fantastic race and my best race of the year by far. It was a battle between great riders and it was fantastic to win like this. I would like to say thank you to my team because the bike was very, very fast."

"I never saw him race but they tell me he was one of the best, maybe the best ever. I am now on the podium of all-time winners and this is a big pleasure for me."

"Racing with Yamaha gives me a great taste and a great motivation to win; these last two championships have been two of the best,"

"Unfortunately, Sete had a problem, which was bad luck for him because he should have been on the podium. Anyway, this is a good win for me and now I just need one more for the title. But it is not over yet."

"This track is magic, it was a great race. I wasn't able to escape. Nicky had a great race and stayed right with me."

"So, 11 victories is fantastic and always race in this track is different, is magic, ... I win a lot of times here, a lot of important races for my career and I love this track."

"For sure, this is a magic circuit for me, ... I have had some great, great battles here in the past."

"It's a magic track for me,"

"We still have quite a few problems with the vibration and this means that we can't use the bike to its full potential and make fast lap times. We've tried lots of changes to the set-up today - balance, suspension, but the problem remains. In some of the fast corners my speed is down by as much as 15 or 20kms. The good thing is that we're much better than yesterday and we've done some really good work within the team to make these improvements, but it's still not enough and some other riders are looking very strong."

"It's a fantastic track and if the bike is okay it's a great pleasure to ride."

"The numbers are always important and to have won like (as many as) Mick (Doohan) is a great pleasure. But this victory is very much more important."

"The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success."

"Very well observed and touching story, wonderful eye for detail and a pleasure to read,"

"Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out."

"Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed."

"This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure."

"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by other people's rules, while quietly playing by your own."

"To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it."

"The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject."

"The more you can dream, the more you can do."

"Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared."

"What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe."

"The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance."

"Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity."

"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own."

"One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals."

"Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility."

"An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition."

"One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care."

"Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you."

"Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement."

"Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets."

"You don't build a reputation on what you're going to do"

"Many people think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. if money is your ONLY hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a person can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless."

"There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do."

"Surgery for early stage non-small cell lung cancer is standard treatment and is likely curative. Yet, fewer blacks than whites undergo surgery for the disease, leading to a higher mortality rate among blacks with lung cancer,"

"put the world on wheels."

"My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer - but it was because of what my grandfather did to him."