Ive spent as much as 30 grand on a watch but its not about flaunting my wealth. I dont have many extravagances but watches are my biggest one. I must have 30 of them now. Ive been collecting since the age of nine, when I won a black TAG in a karting event. – Jenson Button
I keep my weight low, although you need to be able to move your weight around the race car to change the balance. Im 6ft and Im 70kg so I havent much fat on me. – Jenson Button
When youre in a car which can win every race, or fight for a win every race, that is pressure. – Jenson Button
In my hometown there is a pub named after me – The Frome Flyer on Jenson Avenue. How cool is that?! – Jenson Button
Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it. But when we pick ourselves up we find our bones are, after all, not broken; while level enough and not unpleasing is the new terrace which lies unexplored before us. – Logan Pearsall Smith, “Age and Death,” Afterthoughts, 1931
Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words climate change in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk. – Jeff Goodell