Lewis Hamilton Quotes

Some days you really don't feel like racing and you have a great performance, some days you feel great and you have a mediocre performance.

I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.

Sometimes, how I said already, I just wake up and play good. And sometimes I'm so tired.

You can have one good game, but the next one could be a bad one.

I had a period where everything... if it's raining, I'm angry because it's raining. If I miss, it's because the pitch is too wet. It was only excuses. It was not good.

Form is difficult. You can't predict form, it is up and down for any player.

We're always driven by our mindset and feeling on a particular show day, so you'll never know what you'll get until you see it happen in the ring.

Sometimes a great director will do a bad job and an okay director will do a great job. You never know.

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

If there's a stereotype that you're not supposed to be good at something, that still gets so badly in your way of concentrating.

You're not going to put up good numbers every year.

The frustrating part is knowing that you've done it before, knowing that you can play, but then your game starts going down the wrong path and you lose confidence. It's so easy to just start slipping away.

I used to psyche myself out. Only, back then, we didn't know the word 'psyche.'

While it would be lovely to play well every week, that is simply not going to happen.

It's so funny. I honestly thought every one of those people on the show could beat anyone at any time anywhere. You just have to have a slightly off day or moment or two or you missed a touch of acid. It has nothing to do with credentials. Anyone could've chopped anyone at any time. I had to look at myself as the one who could lose this the most.

When it comes to gymnastics, you can be 30 points ahead going into that competition, but on that day, it's all about luck. It's about who has a good day, who stays healthy, it's how happy the judges are that day, there are so many different factors.

I don't like rushing, just like to sit down and rest before a match. Half the time I don't even look at the draw.

The first time I played Test cricket, I did OK because I had no real expectations, I was just going to enjoy it. Then I lost that.

It is frustrating when you go all that way, you train, and you just don't turn up. It does happen. If you play 100-odd Test matches, there's going to be little periods when you don't score the runs.

When you go out there, and you're in the ring, honestly, half the time you forget what city you're even in because you're so focused on what you're doing and the task at hand.

For me, I've always been the guy who self-sabotages.

Nobody can stop you more than you can stop yourself.

If ever I am the underdog I seem to play well and whenever I am the favourite I put too much pressure on myself.

The way I have played throughout my career has been sporadic.

Everyone on the grid gets nervous before a Formula 1 race. It's just how you manage it. It's impossible not to be a bit nervous before a Formula 1 start or even before a World Series start. You have nerves. The thing is, you know how to control them.