Albert II, Prince of Monaco

The Red Cross Gala is unique. There's great history there. It's the highlight of the summer in terms of social and charity events.

I guess every athlete has in the back of his mind being good at a sport and making it big.

I came to bobsledding quite by accident. I was on a skiing holiday in St. Moritz and took a guest ride. I liked it. I thought it was a thrilling experience. It is scary. I'd be lying if I didn't say I was apprehensive at first.

Just being with some of the best athletes in the world is a marvelous experience.

I want to be recognized for my performance as an athlete and not because of who I am.

I am delighted to see that the issue of coral reefs is receiving the attention it deserves.

I think is very important that Formula E can apply its technology to everyday cars and everyday usage just as F1 is sort of a testing formula for improvement in road cars.

F1 has to keep appealing to sports fans and not only to motor racing fans but to possibly a wider public... I don't know if it's only social media or different electronic devices that will do that. How to establish more of a personal link to the drivers and to the teams - these are things that you have to think of.

It's true that Ferrari and Monaco are the two most important things to F1.

There is such a history and such a mystique around the name of Ferrari and the success that it has had. The whole imagery and legend of the red cars and what they mean to the world of automobiles and racing itself. It is hard to imagine F1 without them.

I monitor very carefully, in the automobile sector in particular, the development of new technologies which help to limit negative effects on the environment by influencing human actions.

Certainly, when I started bobsledding I didn't think of being in the Olympics some day.

The promotion of international tolerance, reconciliation and education for which we must work are, in my view, of paramount importance in order to build a balanced world showing solidarity.

Protecting the environment is just as important a priority as the economic imperatives.

Our health depends on the health of the environment in which we live.

You can rest assured that I will marry... And I will also create my own family.

I want to place morality, honesty and ethics at the center of my government's preoccupations, of its councilors or all the principality's decisions.

I appreciate versatility.

I did my first speech when I was 17, well, my first formal speech. So I've had time to deal with it, and to adjust to it, but I can't say I'm like gung-ho on public speaking or interviews for that matter.

I kissed my first girl when I was 13.

We're an independent sovereign country and that's very important to Monaco.

Everything happening at the South Pole, like the North Pole, has repercussions everywhere on the planet.

Mothers are always sending me pictures of their daughters.

I like women but I want a meaningful relationship.

Winning has become too important in all sports, with too many commercial rewards.

It means a lot to be accepted as an athlete as I have and I can be myself.

Bobsledding has made me a more confident person.

I'll never grow up. I'll always be a child at heart.

There are some people in Monaco who aren't thrilled at the idea of me going down an ice track in a sled going 90 miles an hour. But they've accepted it.

I really wanted to address different issues of protection of biodiversity, water management issues that I knew were pretty severe in most countries, and then of course climate change.

We are faced with an incredible challenge to curb our greenhouse-gas emissions around the globe. Everyone has to realize this and come to terms with this.

Those of us who were fortunate enough to know my mother - her family and friends - knew her to be a genuine, warm and loving woman - a woman who always put her family first.

You know my mother during her lifetime was unable to set up a foundation for the arts. She always had that idea and did help the arts in many other ways but never was able to set up her own foundation, so we did it in her name after her passing.

There's no miracle formula but we have to move towards a lower carbon economy. We don't have any other choice.

If everyone that has agreed to the Paris Agreement wants to meet their targets they are going to have to make renewables part of the equation. There's no other way out of it.

We will never harm the Jews.

Jews are an important part of our kingdom, and I am happy you chose to gather here in our country.

Charlene has a very strong personality and I have no doubt of her desire to get involved in things alongside me.

The IOC presidency has been suggested to me.

One isn't considered a bobsledder if he hasn't crashed.

I want the full Olympic experience.

You know, the Monaco Grand Prix is the grandfather of all street races.

I'm straight and always have been. When our family gets together, we joke about it or throw our hands up in desperation because there is very little we can do. If we make a big fuss about correcting these rumors, it just creates more attention and turns the whole thing into a soap opera.

I think very early on, my sisters and I understood the value of nature and what it can do for us, and that we are part of nature. Even if we are all seemingly intelligent beings and we're at the top of the food chain, that doesn't mean that we have to remove ourselves from nature.

My father gave me this poster from National Geographic back in the very early 70s, so I was a young teenager. It showed how man polluted his world. And the issues that they talked about, whether it was water pollution, air, or terrestrial... The issues that they talk about on this poster are still very much present today.

My mother loved to take us on walks in the mountains or the hills and she would point out different species that she identified, both fauna and flora.

We have no choice: we must protect Arctic ice, enable it to continue to act as an essential temperature regulator for the planet, avoid the catastrophic rise in sea levels that would result from the ice melt, and stop the disappearance of permafrost releasing irreversible quantities of greenhouse gases back into the atmosphere.

I'm tired of seeing the press equate Monaco with money laundering.

I've practiced a lot of different sports. I stopped counting after 15.

It will be very difficult for whoever will be with me, not even in marriage, whoever goes out with me seriously. Even if she doesn't look remotely like my mother, she will be compared to her.