A. J. Foyt Quotes

My extensive career, with its victories and defeats, championships, etc., has been well documented. My entire life has been focused on being the best race car driver I can be.

If you're not first, you're last.

Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad?

Only one guy can be world champion, and so if everyone else thought they were failures you'd have no one left on the grid.

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.

After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.

By 2002 we might be championship challengers. But I want to race fast. I want to become world champion myself.

I'm not here for anything other than world championships. I don't want to be here driving around and finishing races and scoring points. I only want to win and if I can't do that - if I can't see that I have a future with wins and championships - then I'm not up for Formula One, I'll do something else where I can win.

The first thing I said to Chase Elliott when I was in Iowa at a same race as him, I told him, and he was humble as his father is humble, I said, 'Look, you can't be happy just to be here. Don't be saying, I can't believe I'm here. You're here because you're good. You've got to go out now and win.' I always tell young guys that.

When I get out there 100 percent, everybody will see what kind of player I am.

Obviously, you want to do well. As a competitor you don't like not doing well.

Whether it's at club level or with England, I have to stay on my toes and make that place my own.

Ultimately, I'm here to fight the best. I'm not here to stay in and get a couple paychecks. I'm here to do my best while I can and while I'm fresh and make a name for myself.

Bad luck never lost a race.

There are just times when it seems you can't do anything wrong. Then there are other times when whatever you do is wrong. I think I could have had more drive. I was never very ambitious.

If you ain't first, you're last!

There was always a lot of pressure - I fought on Channel 5 in my first fight and got two million views - but luckily I'm the kind of person who thrives under pressure. I use it to fuel my performances and training, knowing that all eyes are on me and that there's a lot to live up to. It made me harder, tougher and more determined.

What motivates me is being the best quarterback in the world.

I think any fight you get into, you've got to shine and show that you deserve to be up there.

Winning is what I need, and winning is what the team needs.

Any time, as an athlete, you taste victory, you taste the top of the mountain, you want to get there again.

I love to compete and I hate failing.

Since I got to F1, and especially since I got to Red Bull Racing, I said, 'I don't want to have any regrets. I've got a chance now in a top team. I want to leave it all on the table.'

You've got to want to compete with the best of the best and when the pressure's on.

If I don't start, I'd like to try to win Sixth Man of the Year. And whenever I'm on the court, I'm just going to give it my all.