Lewis Hamilton Quotes

My proudest moment? Every Friday morning when I look at the board at Celtic Park and see my name on the team sheet for tomorrow's game.

Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it's all on my shoulders and it didn't have anything to do with anybody else.

When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.

I can't believe that I'm on the Olympic team.

I do not decide who plays.

In the dressing room, we know that Arsene Wenger is the boss.

If the owner goes inside a team and picks one player to play, I can no longer be the manager. Decisions must be made by the manager.

Players talk about wanting to win and wanting to be a champion, but ultimately, they want to do it on their own terms.

I like doing my own errands. I feel like they are very personal and it makes me feel like I achieved a lot that day.

Of course, as manager, the selection of the team is very much one of the biggest responsibilities I personally take, but I come to that decision thanks to advice and support of the people around me.

I had endured six years of frustration so I think winning it all meant more to me than most of the others on the team.

It's real easy to sit on your couch and point fingers and say, 'So-and-so did something wrong...'. But until you are out there in these cars at these speeds and seeing all the near-misses and what is really going on, it is not worth forming an opinion.

Picking the team isn't difficult, it's who to leave out.

[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in high places become part of the story.

We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world. The lives that you admire, the attitudes that seem noble to you, have not been shaped by a paterfamilias or a schoolmaster, they have sprung from very different beginnings, having been influenced by evil or commonplace that prevailed round them. They represent a struggle and a victory.

The 2002 (Olympic) team was a great team, we won the gold medal, they deserved all the accolades that they got. But this team seems to have a little more depth and maybe a little more talent to pick from. So it makes the job of picking the right 23 guys even more difficult.

I always fielded the team that I felt had the greatest chances of success.

The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. ... It works in software, and it turns out that it works with kids.

Whenever feasible, pick your team on character, not skill. You can teach skills; you can't teach character.

I want to be back behind the plate as long as I can. I can help the team that way, and I like being in control and in charge.

You can't motivate a group of people or a Team. You have to motivate people individually, and that motivation has to be in an environment in which that person has a goal - something they want to accomplish in their lives.

I'm a very smug show-off at heart. I'm altogether too pleased with myself. The big boost for me is to be able to turn out something that I think is pretty marvelous, like 'Lost Girls.' I'm not in it for money, I'm just in it for the glory.

Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so.

To try to please people is an endless chasing of one's own tail. That's not very satisfying, so we do what we like and that satisfies us. When it does work out, its a bonus, really.

Work as hard as you can to become as good an individual player as you can to help your team win