Valtteri Bottas Quotes

I dig all kinds of competition.

We play fair and we play hard. If we win the game we win, if we lose the game, we lose.

To me, it's just another game of football - 11 players, a grass pitch. Regardless what shirt I have on, it's important you win the game, and I'm competitive as anyone, and I want to win every game, whether it's a Sunday league game, a five-a-side tournament, or a World Cup qualifier.

If you are not allowed to defend, what's racing about, then?

The other players are all normal human beings, so just play your best and play free.

Do I enjoy the aggression of English football? No. I like to play football. I like to score goals. I like to do things well.

I don't want anyone to get injured. It's a competition: you want to play against the best teams and the best players.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

There are a lot of good guys that I race against, and that's what I enjoy the most.

You've gotta respect everybody. If they race hard against you, you've got to race hard against them. It's very simple; if there's respect both ways, there's no problem.

Everyone knows the game is about the players.

Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!

Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.

My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again.

I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.

If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.

Being nice and competitive are two different things.

For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.

I never dislike anyone that I am in competition with. I welcome the challenge. Besides, I get along with just about everyone.

That's why we all play the game. You want to be a player; you want to be out there to play.

I've been racing for my whole life, and I know what I need to do to be able to win.

People don't want to watch a sport where you see people fall down and somehow score above someone who goes clean.

You have to be very careful when you let someone win.

My philosophy about the game, for instance, is that you have players out there who really do different things.