Bernie Ecclestone Quotes

In Formula One, the car can make a difference in a way that a driver cannot. Whereas Michael Schumacher and Ayrton Senna spent their early seasons in second-rate machinery, Hamilton walked into the equal best car on the grid. His first season none the less has, by any standards, been extraordinary.

No matter how good a driver you are, you have to have the right car and the right team behind you in order to succeed.

I would put my money on both my drivers to win if it came down a streetfight.

I'm fighting against becoming soft. That's the worst thing you can say to a basketball player.

If you are a straightforward racing driver you should always see your limits. You have to be objective and not come up with any bullshit.

The difference is almost all mental. The top players just hate to lose. I think that's the difference. A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.

The difference between players is not always the quality but their mentality.

Successful competitors want to win. Head cases want to win at all costs.

When I come into a tournament, I'm expecting to win. That's my philosophy. I can't go to a tournament thinking, 'I'm going to get my ass kicked today, so I might as well leave.'

There's a confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level of competition, whatever the sport is. Whether it's boxing or wrestling, or whatever.

During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.

When time is running out and the score is close, most players are thinking, I don't want to be the one to lose the game, but I'm thinking, What do I have to do to win?

I'm sure Bobby won't want them to be losing the match before winning it.

There were a lot of running backs as good as me. The real difference was that I could focus. I never laid back and relied on natural ability.

I never really knew what it meant, to win, until one day I was flying on the Phoenix Suns airplane, the team plane, on the way to Chicago. I was talking to Danny Ainge on this flight, and he was talking about the concept of knowing how to win. And so he proceeded to give me from his perspective as an athlete, and now he's a coach, what the whole concept of knowing how to win is, and he said part of it is rooted in experience, the experience of winning, but it's attitudinal, it's the belief that you should, it's the belief that you can, it's the belief.

I don't want to lose ever. I don't want to lose at anything. I want to make weight faster than the guy that I'm fighting if we both go into the sauna at the same time. When we're doing interviews I want to have quicker wit so that I can make him feel stupid. I want to drink my water faster. And then when we get in the cage I want to beat him up. I don't think people really truly understand the extent that I go to try not to use.

I'm always scared when I fight. But that fear is what keeps me more alert and more focused. It's good to have fear.

Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift.

At least 80 percent of the success of the football team is determined by the fight and spirit that they put into their play.

You need to have that edge, you need to have that confidence, you need to have that absolute belief that you're - you're the best and you'll win every time.

It's never just a game when you're winning.

It is always in my mind still that I can crush anybody. That's not an issue. But I think that is the same for most athletes. If you don't believe you can win tournaments anymore, then you can't do it.

And Michael Schumacher is 37 seconds ahead, so he can refuel the car, change all four wheels, take off his helmet, have a smoke and a cup of tea, and rejoin in first.

Keep faith, trust to love, fight with honor, but fight to win.