Max Verstappen

“Sometimes I watch a football match, and I think I know better, but at the end of the day, we don't. So I think people need to appreciate more what we are trying to achieve in the car.”

“To be honest, it doesn't matter who is next to me in whatever team.”

“I always try to get the best result out of it, I'm not there to just sit second or sit third. I'm a winner, and I want to win every single race, and I will always go for it.”

“As racing drivers, you always have those moments that it gets a bit heated, but then you start from zero again.”

“I don't need people shouting at me to tell me what I did wrong.”

“I never even think of the mental side of things because I never had any issues.”

“I think it is very important to not be too much on social media. You have a lot of positive comments but also negative ones, and at the end of the day, that shouldn't affect you, but it is much more important not to read it so you just don't know.”

“I think if you show respect on the track to each other, and you do clean overtaking moves, then they get respect for you.”

“If you haven't really raced a lot in lower categories, and you make the jump to Formula One, you have to learn in Formula One, and a lot more people are watching.”

“In the end, I think in F1 it is very hard for a girl.”

“It changes from track-to-track, but when you are behind someone, you know after a few laps where they are weaker and stronger around the lap. You try to position yourself in the best possible way to attack them at a point they don't expect or at the point that they are just not as strong as you. That's how you try to get past.”

“Of course there will be difficult times, and there will be more in the future, but I know what I have to do in the car.”

“Some drivers are like that. When they get a bit angry, they can perform better.”

“This is what I have always done in my life, just racing and driving cars and go-karts fast.”

“The smell of fuel, driving on the limit on the edge of sliding, it just gives you a lot of adrenaline.”

“I just want to be myself. You learn from yourself, and that doesn't mean you have to drive slower; it actually means you have to drive faster, but maybe with a little bit in control, and that's what I learned.”

“There is no such thing as a low risk lap in Monaco. It doesn't exist if you want to be fast, because you have to be on the limit.”

“Of course you learn from certain moments, and you always get more and more experience, so maybe in the future you will do some different things, but in general, the basics always stay the same.”

“I did like history. I was always quite interested and got good grades as well.”

“I focus on myself, but all these stupid comments you read on social media and journalists, it's really stupid.”