Max Verstappen

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

— Max Verstappen

Sometimes it's better to come through from, say, last to eighth than staying eighth, and you've qualified eighth!

— Max Verstappen

I want to rely on my gut feeling. Isn't that what made great race drivers in the end?

— Max Verstappen

It's just racing. Sometimes you have difficult moments, and then you try to work hard, and you keep working hard, and you…

— Max Verstappen

If you are a bit weak in your head, maybe you can train your mind, but it will never be your strong…

— Max Verstappen

I just want to be myself. You learn from yourself, and that doesn't mean you have to drive slower; it actually means…

— Max Verstappen

At the end of the day, driving on the limit, sometimes over it to achieve the best out of it, especially at…

— Max Verstappen

If you haven't really raced a lot in lower categories, and you make the jump to Formula One, you have to learn…

— Max Verstappen

It changes from track-to-track, but when you are behind someone, you know after a few laps where they are weaker and stronger…

— Max Verstappen

It is very unfair, and on social media you have all these keyboard warriors who just type something, and they never say…

— Max Verstappen

Of course you learn from certain moments, and you always get more and more experience, so maybe in the future you will…

— Max Verstappen

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

— Max Verstappen

It is not because others tell me I have to change my driving style that I will change.

— Max Verstappen

I get really tired of all the comments saying I should change my approach.

— Max Verstappen

I grew up going to race rings, and I really enjoyed it.

— Max Verstappen

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

— Max Verstappen

It doesn't matter as long as, at one point, I'm in a championship-winning car. I don't care about my team-mate.

— Max Verstappen

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

— Max Verstappen

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

— Max Verstappen

You always try to fight for yourself, isn't it? You try to do the best possible job.

— Max Verstappen

If you start doubting yourself like that, thinking, 'Am I good enough?' - maybe there is a reason you're thinking that.

— Max Verstappen

The thing is, all the time I press my radio button, it is broadcast, and sometimes it sounds a bit arrogant -…

— Max Verstappen

I think it is very important to not be too much on social media. You have a lot of positive comments but…

— Max Verstappen

To be honest, I never compare myself with the rookies.

— Max Verstappen

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

— Max Verstappen