Top 82 Quotes & Sayings by Max Verstappen

If you are a bit weak in your head, maybe you can train your mind, but it will never be your strong point.

I think it's always better to be in an F1 car because, in general, the car behaves itself.

You always want to do better than last year.

Overtaking is one thing. That is an art. But defending as well. You should be able to defend your position.

Of course my dad went to Formula One, so I think that my dad is the better driver of the two. But I think, for a girl, my mom was not too bad, of course.

The only place that matters is first.

I just want to do the best I can every time.

My career is more important than girls.

It is not because others tell me I have to change my driving style that I will change.

I think, in general, not only in Formula One but just in a lot of sports, when younger people come in and they do well, there's always a bit of talk going on. I think that's pretty normal.

I am not there to finish fourth at the end of the day. I am there to win as a racer, but on the radio, it sounds I am arrogant and not listening to the team, but it is not like that.

I really want to thank Red Bull Racing and Dr. Helmut Marko for the confidence they have in me.

The world championship is what I am here for.

It's just racing. Sometimes you have difficult moments, and then you try to work hard, and you keep working hard, and you overcome the situation. It's as simple as that.

I can't thank all the people at Scuderia Toro Rosso enough for all their hard work.

Maybe I can drive until I'm 36 or 37. 40.

Sometimes I watch a football match, and I think I know better, but at the end of the day, we don't. So I think people need to appreciate more what we are trying to achieve in the car.

I always wanted to be a racing driver. Even if it was not F1, it would be something else.

I have good people around me, so I always have advice. A lot of people can talk to me, but it's me, of course, who still has to take that to the track and to perform.

If you are not allowed to defend, what's racing about, then?

Preparation for Monaco is a little different: you definitely build up a little bit slower throughout the weekend and pace yourself. It's important to find the limit carefully.

Some drivers are like that. When they get a bit angry, they can perform better.

I don't need people shouting at me to tell me what I did wrong.

I always try to get the best result out of it, I'm not there to just sit second or sit third. I'm a winner, and I want to win every single race, and I will always go for it.

There is no such thing as a low risk lap in Monaco. It doesn't exist if you want to be fast, because you have to be on the limit.

I think you can improve on everything; you're never perfect.

You have to be patient: trust the team, that they can deliver a good job.

People always think they know better. In football, everybody thinks they can be head coach and do it better. It's the same in F1: they always know better, even if they have no experience of it.

In general, the spotlight has been on me.

Many people ask, 'What do you need mentally to succeed in F1?' I say, 'What do you mean mentally?'

It changes from track-to-track, but when you are behind someone, you know after a few laps where they are weaker and stronger around the lap. You try to position yourself in the best possible way to attack them at a point they don't expect or at the point that they are just not as strong as you. That's how you try to get past.

I think it is very important to not be too much on social media. You have a lot of positive comments but also negative ones, and at the end of the day, that shouldn't affect you, but it is much more important not to read it so you just don't know.

I'm normally not really an angry person. Maybe some other people have a different opinion.

To be honest, I never compare myself with the rookies.

I want to win because I am the fastest out there instead, not by luck; then it means a lot more to you.

I just enjoy it and drive as fast I can. But so many people think your psychology is such a massive thing. For me, it's not necessary.

I want to rely on my gut feeling. Isn't that what made great race drivers in the end?

You always have to believe in yourself, and I had that from karting.

This is what I have always done in my life, just racing and driving cars and go-karts fast.

Ever since I was 7 years old, Formula 1 has been my career goal, so this opportunity is truly a dream come true.

If you haven't really raced a lot in lower categories, and you make the jump to Formula One, you have to learn in Formula One, and a lot more people are watching.

Of course I am doing a good job, but you can always improve, and I just leave it up to people outside, around me or whatever, to judge on that.

I never even think of the mental side of things because I never had any issues.

The smell of fuel, driving on the limit on the edge of sliding, it just gives you a lot of adrenaline.

Mistakes happen, and they happen to the best of us.

If you start doubting yourself like that, thinking, 'Am I good enough?' - maybe there is a reason you're thinking that.

My ultimate dream is just to become world champion, and not only once. So that's my dream, and it doesn't matter with which team it is.

Of course you learn from certain moments, and you always get more and more experience, so maybe in the future you will do some different things, but in general, the basics always stay the same.

The biggest critic I have in my life is my dad, so everything else is just a breeze; it doesn't really matter to me.

I've always been good at realising what went wrong and stuff, and I was always being able to look at the positives from it.

As a driver, it is important to focus on yourself and believe in yourself, and there shouldn't be a reason why, when you are in F1 and there is more attention, you change your approach.

My first memory of motor racing - I think it was just attending a go kart race.

My dad always told me you have to be as quick as you can straight away out of the box. Some people say, 'Feel your way into it; build it up.' No. My dad would say, 'Straight away, you have to be there.' And I think that helps to warm up your tyres and brakes to be on it a bit more from lap one.

That's what I enjoy, always driving on the limit of what you can do.

Of course there will be difficult times, and there will be more in the future, but I know what I have to do in the car.

In the end, I think in F1 it is very hard for a girl.

It is very unfair, and on social media you have all these keyboard warriors who just type something, and they never say it to my face. That's very weak I find.

I get really tired of all the comments saying I should change my approach.

I tell my engineers that they should not overload me with information.

For me, it doesn't matter if you are fighting a world champion or not.