Quotes from Max Verstappen

The thing is, all the time I press my radio button, it is broadcast, and sometimes it sounds a bit arrogant - especially the 'I'm not here to finish fourth' - and that is just what comes up in my mind.

I am not there to finish fourth at the end of the day. I am there to win as a racer, but on the radio, it sounds I am arrogant and not listening to the team, but it is not like that.

Of course I think everybody has moments in their careers when they're frustrated, or you're not happy with the current situation.

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.

I really want to thank Red Bull Racing and Dr. Helmut Marko for the confidence they have in me.

If you are not allowed to defend, what's racing about, then?

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

My first memory of motor racing - I think it was just attending a go kart race.

Of course I am doing a good job, but you can always improve, and I just leave it up to people outside, around me or whatever, to judge on that.

I have good people around me, so I always have advice. A lot of people can talk to me, but it's me, of course, who still has to take that to the track and to perform.

I think you can improve on everything; you're never perfect.

People always think they know better. In football, everybody thinks they can be head coach and do it better. It's the same in F1: they always know better, even if they have no experience of it.

I've always been good at realising what went wrong and stuff, and I was always being able to look at the positives from it.

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

As a driver, it is important to focus on yourself and believe in yourself, and there shouldn't be a reason why, when you are in F1 and there is more attention, you change your approach.

It's just racing. Sometimes you have difficult moments, and then you try to work hard, and you keep working hard, and you overcome the situation. It's as simple as that.

My ultimate dream is just to become world champion, and not only once. So that's my dream, and it doesn't matter with which team it is.

For me, it doesn't matter if you are fighting a world champion or not.

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

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

We are getting way too much info in the cockpit. Sometimes I switch off the display in my car!

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

My career is more important than girls.

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