Murray Walker quotes:

I'm a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I'm commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car.

There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.

And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing.

We all make mistakes, but when I made mistakes there was no filter between me and the consumer.

IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards.

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

If you don't trust someone to look after your investments, then they shouldn't be doing the job for you.

And Michael Schumacher is 37 seconds ahead, so he can refuel the car, change all four wheels, take off his helmet, have a smoke and a cup of tea, and rejoin in first.

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

Even in five years time, he will still be four years younger than Damon Hill.

Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so.

Michael Schumacher is leading Michael Schumacher.

Andrea De Cesaris, the man who has won more Grands Prix than anybody else in the history of Grand Prix racing without actually winning one of them.

Either the car is stationary, or it's on the move.

You have to say what comes into your head, and sometimes the wrong words come, in the wrong order or I'd make prophecies which immediately turned out to be wrong.

I should imagine that the conditions in the cockpit are totally unimaginable.

And he's done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures.

Eight minutes past the hour here in Belgium - and presumably eight minutes past the hour everywhere in the world.

I've no idea what Eddie Irvine's orders are, but he's following them superlatively well.

And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself.

This circuit is interesting because it has inclines and declines. Not just up, but down as well.

Schumacher wouldn't have let him past voluntarily. Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.

Schumacher has made his final stop three times.

I wish we had a system where you are given a bill including service and that people were paid properly so they didn't have to rely on tips. In different restaurants there are different policies and it's all very confusing.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.

And this is the third place car about to lap the second place car.

Well, now we have exactly the same situation as at the beginning of the race, only exactly opposite.

I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.

I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.

It is a huge honour to be recognised as the world's best commentator, particularly against so many sporting greats.

Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does.

He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed.

I want to say so much more than I have time for.

... the lead is now 6.9 seconds. In fact it's just under 7 seconds

A battle is developing between them' I say developing, because it's not yet on.

A mediocre season for Nelson Piquet as he is now known and always has been.

Alain Prost is in a commanding second position

Alboreto has dropped back up to fifth place.

Alesi is in second place, and Hill is in second place.

And all Niki really has to do now is coast

And Damon Hill is following Damon Hill.

And here comes Mika Hakkinen, double world champion twice over.

And he's lost both right front tires.

And now Jacques Laffitte is as close to Surer as Surer is to Laffitte

And the first five places are filled by five different cars.

And the first three cars are all Escorts, which isn't surprising as this is an all Escort race.

And there's no damage to the car. Except to the car itself.

And there's the man in the green flag!

As you can see, visually, with your eyes.

As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto is fifth.

Brundle is driving an absolutely pluperfect race.

Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough?

Ferrari leads, McLaren second, McLaren second, Jordan third, and Benneton fifth and sixth.

I can't imagine what kind of problem Senna has. I imagine it must be some sort of grip problem.

I didn't see the time, largely because there wasn't one.

I was often in the pit lane the noise was indescribable and I've no doubt that is why my hearing was affected.

I was there when I said it.

I wonder if Watson is in the relaxed state of mind he's in

I'm a frustrated driver. I would love to be out on the track instead of them. I look at them with envy.

It all comes down to money.

It's lap 26 of 58, which unless I'm very much mistaken is half way.

Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th.

Jenson Button is in the top ten, in eleventh position.

Just under 10 seconds for Nigel Mansell. Call it 9.5 seconds in round numbers.

Let's stop the startwatch.

Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.

Look up there! That's the sky!

Mansell can see him in his earphone.

Mansell is slowing it down, taking it easy. Oh, no he isn't! It's a lap record.

Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion.

Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.

Rally points scoring is twenty for the fastest, eighteen for the second fastest, right down to six points for the slowest fastest.

Somebody said once 'Follow the money' and that is what it is all about.

Speaking from memory, I don't know how many points Nelson Piquet has...

Stewart has two cars in the top five: Magnusson 5th and Barichello 6th.

That's the first time he had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in Canada earlier this year.

The European drivers have adapted to this circuit extremely quickly, especially Paul Radisich who's a New Zealander.

The gap between the two cars is 0.9 of a second, which is less than one second

The tires are called wets, because they're used in the wet. And these tires are called slicks, because they're very slick.

There are four different cars filling the first four places.

This would have been Senna's third win a row if he'd won the two before

Tombay's hopes, which were nil before, are absolutely zero now

Ukyo Katayama is undoubtedly the best Formula One driver that Grand Prix racing has ever produced

Unless I am very much mistaken...I AM very much mistaken...!

Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve.

We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite.

With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go.

With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is.

You can't see a digital clock because there isn't one

You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing.

Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him

Frentzen is taking, er, reducing that gap between himself and Frentzen.

Thackwell really can metaphorically coast home now