Max Verstappen Quotes

They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

I just want to be in the lineup. If I'm on that lineup card I'm happy.

I had other proposals and I was talking to people but then I decided that staying at Ferrari would give me my best chance of winning the championship.

I don't want to be one of those players who has a good career but couldn't get out of the first round.

Every driver is different, so I just hope whatever I do is going to be good enough, because it's not that I just want to be with McLaren. I want to win with McLaren.

I'm a fighter, I'm a winner, and I'm not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and am not design to come third, fourth or fifth, I race to win.

We see every game as a big game, and, as you know in tournament football, anything is possible. Each game, we want to keep raising the bar and lifting our standards and putting goals past teams.

You see the excitement on the players. I don't know... if they think, 'This coach is crazy,' or if they think that, 'No, this is pretty good.'

I didn't care about titles unless they were championship titles. I don't care about who the man is on the team.

I want a real opportunity to win a championship.

You now have these owners who are all successful businessmen, and they think they should be winning. They come in thinking that they should be winning. Some don't understand that only one team can win the league.

I've always thought of myself as the best defensive player in the league, and I want to play like the best defensive player in the league.

I think all you can do is prepare properly for every game but you also have to be realistic. Be realistic about what you are as a team.

I think that's kind of the common theme when you talk about any good team. Not only do you have the talent and the type of players that allow you to win that many games, but you have to win the ugly ones.

My goal has always been to be known as a racer who is diverse, someone who can go to any venue and any racetrack anywhere and compete for a win.

For me, all I want to do is win. Whether I make a hundred tackles or one tackle, all I want to do is win and for the defense to perform well.

I think I did a pretty good job - particularly when I was racing with Hakkinen. It was maybe the first time that I have been challenging with the big boys, and I really enjoyed it.

My first pole position is an emotional and hopefully historic moment as I want to be in F1 for many, many years.

I think something that has separated me from the rest of the competition - maybe it's just my way of thinking - I don't necessarily go into fights just wanting to win but to actually dominate. So when I don't feel like I dominate, sometimes I feel like a loser, I guess, you know, maybe in that perspective.

As long as I win and lead my team to winning, that's when I will be really satisfied.

I don't just want to be that guy who throws hard.

If I can win matches for the team, that will automatically help me personally.

Some might say friendlies are unimportant, but we always try to win because we then maintain that positive mentality when the real competitions start.