Marcus Ericsson Quotes

Unlike other sports, which are largely determined by individual athletic ability or team strength, NASCAR requires its competitors to cooperate in order to win.

Some things are difficult to adapt to.

At the beginning, I didn't want to arrive at a big team like Ferrari and say: 'Ok, I want the car like this' - I just wanted to try and adapt to the car and then see if I wanted to make some changes.

Experience will always win in this sport. That experience helps with a lot of things, even in the race shop. You are going to have experience in certain scenarios where you can make those right decisions.

It kind of came a little bit easier in Nationwide once I figured out what I needed to do driving-wise.

I used to try and take things in leaps and bounds. Now I've realized it's got to be step by step.

A big city is a big ocean; the one who doesn’t know how to swim finds himself at its bottom!

Getting the U. S. Government to do anything is like herding ducks with a broom.

That first CS class I took, I felt like I was drowning. It's like being taught how to swim by being thrown off deck. The continual self-talk that I have had with myself while I've been here is, pull yourself together and get this done.

I don't drive by the seat of my pants and happen to win races. I work very hard to interpret the data and drive a certain way. My engineers have confidence in me, and more often than not, when I tell them what I need or what I am feeling with the car, it's right.

It's a complex sport; you're always learning.

This league does teach you that it's inevitable that there's constant change, and you always have to continue to embrace change, adapt with change.

My approach to the race is definitely just trying to win the race.

I need to find a way to improve my qualifying performances because then I think my races will be even better.

Upgrade' was a hard one to make.

It is a challenge to work with a newcomer.

As long as anybody plays this game, you never master it because there are so many things that are always changing.

I had to prepare hard for number four because that's not where I batted all my life.

In the beginning, learning a new position is not easy.

Formula 1 is such a big jump from Formula 2, and there are so many new things that you need to learn.

I find most video games too complicated to play.

I always wanted to play with the older kids because they were better and it was more fun. It was harder, and I failed more, but it was more fun.

I love to continue to evolve as a player, and sometimes the only places you can do that is when you're uncomfortable, and sometimes when you're at home for too long, it's not that.

When I got drafted, I was a spread-option quarterback. It was, 'OK, you've got to get under center, throw to the fullback, throw to the tight end. You've got to learn to be a pro quarterback.' And there was a learning curve there, and I did have to learn some of that.

It's always difficult if you're coming into a new club and new league, especially the English one. It's a very demanding one, can be a very tough one.