Carlos Sainz Jr. Quotes

I think we'll be in pretty good shape. We've got the same car we ran in all the speedway races since 2001, and it's been a real good car for us. It's led every race we've been in.

It takes a good car for anybody to be good, but it takes a good car and a special driver to achieve greatness.

That's what I'm focused on, having that perfect race.

When the gate drops, it's time to try and execute the best you can.

You're going to have to bring your 'A' game.

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

You can't ever make the perfect run, but you can make the best run, and then you clock the fastest time, and that's a win.

I always sleep really well, particularly before a race, when the adrenaline's pumping.

In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.

When you step on the field, you want to be a starter. You want to be the person everybody looks to and says, 'If we need a play to be made, let's go to him.'

It's just important that you plan your week with food and everything to try and be on your highest level on a matchday.

We have to keep winning and looking good and keep fighting the best competition out there.

My game is characterised by consistency.

There are a lot of good cars, good teams and good drivers.

I've had signs I can play at the highest level.

Whenever you enjoy it, you always play the best football.

You always want to play at a high level.

You have to prove yourself year in and year out, and if you can't get the job done, every team is going to go and try and find somebody else that can.

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

I want to finish at the top, playing well.

If you come into Formula 1, and you try to eat each other or perform on the highest level, and equalisation is what you need after the first race, and you cry out after the first race, it's not how we've done things in the past and not how we've moaned.

When I compete, I love a huge crowd, expectation, pressure, and I like to have nerves: the butterflies flying and my hands shaking. This way, I am completely amped, focused, and ready; otherwise, I tend to be to relaxed, content, and don't perform at my maximal potential.

All the great players you ask always expect greatness.

I love it when you have to perform at a certain level or else. That's when I'm at my best.

At a track, it's different, there's pressure, things like this, so to be yourself is a bit different.