Max Verstappen Quotes

There's obviously games and a history you have with guys that maybe you're a little more fired up to let them know if maybe you beat them on a play.

Sometimes you get into fights if a teammate is getting taken advantage of, sometimes just from competing and you feel someone takes a cheap shot. It's just the intensity. It's an intense game, sometimes you just get too fired up and fights happen.

I had true rivalries. Not only did I want to beat my opponent, but I didn't want to let him up, either. I had a rivalry with Mac, Lendl, Borg. Everybody knew there was tension between us, on court and off. That's what's really ingrained in my mind: 'This is real. This isn't a soft rivalry.' There were no hugs and kisses.

Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.

All's fair in love and war and sport - even when you're fighting against your sister.

I'm competitive, and I think everybody knows that if you're talking trash, you're gonna get a reaction out of me.

There's shouting, there's blood, there's boogers, there's a whole thing. I mean, there's spitting, there's fighting, there's ripped jerseys. There's someone grabbing someone's throat. I mean, it's why you have football.

You live each rivalry in a different way.

I have never fought in my life but I can be very angry, especially on the pitch.

The nature of football can bring out the best in people, but it can also bring out the worst in people.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

I don't like people who get into fights about football - or anything else.

A lot of things happened when I left there, and to be fair they treated me really bad, and now I have to play against them so I don't have any feelings for them at all.

I hate competition.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

I think today the players are too nice to one another, but that might change with the unbalanced schedule, with teams playing each other more and more. When you face each other that much, with that much at stake, something's bound to happen.

Football is a violent game. We are violent men.

Every soccer player can be on the edge, at the limit, be the bad guy. We have to get used to it. Sometimes I am one of those.

Crush Malaysia! Indonesia may change its tactics, but our goal will remain the same.

I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It's always one atom away from being a tragedy.

I didn't get into racing to make friends.

If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.

Soccer isn't very social. Plus, if you don't like someone on the other team, you can do something about it.

Power politics is another name for the law of the jungle.