Christian Horner Quotes

Obviously it's critical that the three cars are able to contribute to the program. I think that certainly has given much of the reason as to why we did so well at Indy over the last several years.

If you don't finish half of the races, you are not going to have a very good season.

It was an easy choice to return with Lotus Renault GP as I have been impressed by the scope of the team's ambition.

People say that F1 is blessed with the 'best drivers in the world,' but I want to witness the 'total best drivers in the world,' and this means taking away the elements that make their job easier.

It's probably 10% luck and 45-45 on the driver and the car. If you have a bad car, you're done.

The rule of thumb in F1 is to beat your teammate.

The number one driver in this team is the one who is ahead on the track, the rule is simple.

You don't really get it from NASCAR that they want you to be the bad guy or the good guy. They'll kind of joke around with you and be like, 'Hey, that was really good this past weekend. You did a great job for us. Ratings were up.'

What we need to make sure we do as a team is build the quickest car on the grid - if we have the quickest car, we can do it!

Before arriving at Ferrari, I had no idea how important it is for a Formula 1 team to be successful to have a successful relationship with their fuel and lubricants partner.

I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.

In my day it was 75 percent car and mechanic, 25 percent driver and luck. Today it's 95 percent car.

My role is to make sure we're moving in the right direction, getting points, rebounds, steals, assists and providing leadership.

The coach's job is to be part servant in helping each player reach his goals within the team concept.

Players have to buy into your system and be willing to accept the role, you, as the coach, have assigned to them

The last player you want the ball to go to is the best player on the planet.

They didn't change positions, they just moved the players around.

I never drop a player I only make changes.

I was able to get through the field and get this Lowe's ProServices Chevy up front. Those last few restarts I was able to hang on and duke it out with those guys and get a nice, top-three finish.

Perhaps the toughest call for a coach is weighing what is best for an individual against what is best for the team. Keeping a player on the roster just because I liked him personally, or even because of his great contributions to the team in the past, when I felt some one else could do more for the team would be a disservice to the team's goals.

You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball.

There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players and never win titles. Most of the time, those players aren't willing to sacrifice for the greater good of the team. The funny thing is, in the end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individual goals more difficult to achieve. One thing I believe to the fullest is that if you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

Technology has certainly reduced performance differences among drivers. Whereas a talented driver could get a half-second out of every lap in the past, nowadays talent makes up for only about one or two tenths of a second. But the driver is still the key factor.

Cricket is the only game where you are playing against eleven of the other side and ten of your own.