Daniel Ricciardo Quotes

I think fans of the sport have a good understanding now of how fit Formula One drivers need to be.

A woman can be physically fit enough to drive a Formula 1 car. I did the race distance in Barcelona so I have proved that it is possible.

To be a striker you need to be in good shape.

Football develops, it becomes quicker, players develop as athletes.

I like a man who can run faster than I can.

A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.

In those long, lonely miles you put in during the off-season, and in those knife-in-the-gut track repetitions and hill repeats that buckle your knees - at that moment in almost every race when you ask yourself how much you're willing to hurt to catch one more runner - you can draw strength and inspiration from your running mates.

I have good stamina and good endurance.

If a boy hopes to be a good football player, the main things he needs are brains, courage, self-restraint, coordination, fire of nervous energy and an unselfish point of view, ready to sacrifice for the team as a whole. Of course, he must have a bit of speed and a bit of physique, but then these things are taken for granted.

Boxing combines, in perfect proportion, strength, speed, and endurance. Normally, most sports are either about one of the three: either about speed or endurance or strength. Boxing combines all three of them. It's really intense.

We have to be extremely fit to race in F1.

People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.

Formula 1 is about running to the maximum.

I think people - especially folks who haven't seen a lot of NASCAR - they get this idea that we're just going around in circles. And that's so far from the truth. You're running as hard as you can to get all you can every lap.

Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.

The SEALs place a premium on brute strength, but there's an even bigger premium on speed. That's speed through the water, speed over the ground, and speed of thought. There's no prizes for gleaming a set of well-oiled muscles in Coronado. Bulk just makes you slow, especially in soft sand, and that's what we had to tackle every day of our lives, mile after mile.

You've got to keep yourself in prime physical condition, because fatigue makes cowards of us all.

This is motor racing, and things can change pretty quickly.

Fitness is the most important aspect in this sport. You've got to feel good.

I can train harder and put myself through more punishing efforts now than I used to do, having done the Tour de France, and come off the road now.

I think my strength is going to be my greatest attribute and speed.

I try to get better with every fight - my boxing, my wrestling, my jiu-jitsu, everything.

I think a tennis match is a marathon. You have to sit down and have food for the next three hours, if not more. And to ask a 15 or 20 or even 25 or 30-year-old to do that, this is not gonna happen.

When you are stronger, it helps. But ever since I have played football, I have been one of the smallest ones, and you have to try to compensate with other things because if you are faster or stronger, it helps you.

As far as the weight is concerned, I feel great whatever it is. I'm going to be in there and I'm going to bang. I feel I'm in great condition.