Quote #22
An interviewer asked, 'Eddie, if you have Mika Hakkinen and Michael Schumacher on a tower, whom would you throw out?' Irvine answered, 'Mika Hakkinen, because Michael Schumacher is already out of this championship.'
More from Eddie Irvine
- Miss Belgium asked Irvine in the Spa paddock: 'How can I seduce you?' Irvine replied, 'Take your clothes off.' She wasn't charmed.
- Writing in his Formula 1 magazine column (May 2001) about the Italian traffic police: 'They're a lot less anal than the British when it com…
- On the national anthems played as the race winners accept their trophies: 'I couldn't give a s**t which song is played or which flag is flo…
- On his ambition to become Britain's number one driver: 'It's not significant at all. I might just as well still be doing British F3. It car…
- On Jacques Villeneuve, world champion and son of famous driver Gilles Villeneuve: 'Villeneuve only got into F1 'cos of his father.'
- On fear: 'But fear is an irrational business. The things that really scare the s**t out of me are earwigs, which used to infest our home in…
- On Ralf Schumacher: 'Ralf Schumacher had something missing from his head.'
- On his role at Jaguar in 2000: 'My job this year was to complain a lot about what was wrong. Hopefully, I won't have the need to do so much…