Lewis Hamilton Quotes

I don't want advantages for my team. I want the same rest as our opponents. It's very difficult to do this? I don't think so.

The status quo is never happy when things become a meritocracy.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

No one man is superior to the game.

When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.

I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.

It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it?

In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.

I never came into life with any favours or privileges.

It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn't a level playing field.

Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.

I want nothing to do with privilege.

I don't think anybody can claim success at any part of our lives, private or professional, if there are others that don't enjoy the same opportunities.

Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.

I truly don't know why the boys are getting all the votes - it could be because they are really amazing, and that's all there is to it. They're really, really good and every single boy deserves to be in the competition right now, and so do the two girls.

On the field, everyone is equal.

Challengers do not have a level playing field.

The market is not the society. Our societies are, of course, much, much more than the market. But lack of trust in the market can rub off on society so we lose trust in our society as well. And it may be the most important thing we have, trust. We can trust each other if we are treated as equals. If we are all to have the same chances, well, we all have to follow the same fundamental rules. Of course, some people and some businesses are more successful than others, but we do not trust in a society if the prizes are handed out even before the contest begins.

I think we have enough trouble finding community in this country, and sport does provide that. It is a mediocrisy, the greatest mediocrisy. If you're the best, it shows in sports. Nobody can say, 'Well, he's only there because of his connections,' or whatever. In that sense, I suppose it upholds democracy and the best in us.

Competition is for everyone.

You can't be a losing team and get a new arena. That's not fair. That's not fair! That's how I see it.

Everybody's got a puncher's chance in this game. I mean every single person on Earth. But my whole focus, my whole style, my whole dynamic is built around taking that power away from you. So where is the logic in why you're different from anybody else? There is no logic in it.

I'm all for competition; competition is good. I just want to make sure the playing field is level.

Male, female, it doesn't matter. All I see when I look across the ring is an opponent.

It's football. Sometimes it's unfair.