Jean-Eric Vergne Quotes

I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.

I have to say it's been tough to leave the Ferrari family, which has been a big part of my career.

The heart of Ferrari is winning in F1. I don't want to see our drivers in 7th and 12th place.

With Ferrari sometimes, you win or you lose depending on what the mood of the team in general, of the group in general.

Every match I won in a Grand Slam, I take confidence of that, and when I arrive in a final, I know my game is there.

There is always pressure on managers at whatever stage of a season because we want to be winning games and we want to be winning football matches.

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.

At Ferrari they didn't give me the space, and at Honda I had the space but I didn't have the machinery.

Wimbledon is not the easiest tournament in which to make a comeback.

Over the season you have waves. It is very hard to go through the whole season at the same standard and winning games in the same way.

The reality of this sport is champions make a heck of a lot more than non-champions, so the pressure to keep the title in order to keep earning that money is immense.

I could lose every Old Firm game I go into and still win the league.

You can't have F1 without Ferrari - you just can't have it. It's part of the theme that is the red car, and a lot of it is to do with the colour.

If you play a final and win it, you get that feeling to win trophies, and you want to win more and more and more.

A Hamilton-Vettel combination, on paper, would look very attractive to any team. However, what you have to look at is the dynamics of any partnership like that and it's difficult to see how two sportsmen at the absolute top of their game could work in harmony under one roof.

I like the fact that when I check in the game, the other players start getting nervous. The other team gets nervous. I like that.

I think always in F1 the team mate is the first one you get compared to - which is normal.

Ferrari is very political, at Ferrari everything is difficult. So if you win you have a lot of pressure and if you don't win you have even more.

I'm a lucky guy because I always play for a big club, and big clubs always try to win titles, and I love that.

I have to be scoring goals and playing well to get in the team because, if not, others who are in better form will play.

You never want to be behind your team-mate at the end of the year, that's definitely always going to be my goal.

I play to win. And if I string together four of my best rounds at the Masters then there's no doubt about it - I will wear the jacket.

Why Galatasaray and not Liverpool? Because I am a winner - I play for prizes - so I went to Galatasaray because I thought that I would win more at Galatasaray and be champion than at Liverpool, and I think afterwards that I made the right choice.

I've never felt like I've had a good game.

That's all I'm really concerned about - contribute and try to win games.