Quotes About Performance

It should be very normal to see people of different races and ethnic minorities playing different parts.

The sport will benefit when star riders start races.

I need to find a way to improve my qualifying performances because then I think my races will be even better.

Sometimes, I arrive at races more energetic and clear-minded than ever, and then I have a terrible race. And the opposite is also true.

One thing is having skated five of the best races I've probably could have skated. It was nice to peak at the right time and to do it in an important time in somebody's career.

Then going out on the ice usually about 15 minutes before and certain things I would do for the different races, aspects that you run through your mind.

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

I'm the guy that can play all the different races and get away with it.

I've always been athletic - did the 100 metres and 1500 m at school, cross-country races - and did well in them.

A guy like me, yes, I am good in terms of championship races, and that's where I dominate - but in terms of running fast times, I haven't quite done that.

How many points, how many races you can win, how many times you be on the podium. That's the name of the game.

I'd like to have some good races and score points.

There have been many races in the past that I have won and not been happy, and other times when I finished maybe eighth but was really happy with my driving.

Success to me obviously isn't having accidents or getting penalties but finishing races as high a position as possible.

Early in the season, you're going into races feeling confident because you've done the work and that confidence gives you an extra five or 10 per cent.

Competition works. Ask any parent if their child will run faster from the house to the mailbox if he runs by himself or if he races to the mailbox with his sister. It's a no brainer.

If I'm winning races, it means I'm doing a good job. I've put down a marker now, against drivers with a lot more experience of the car than me. This is not going to be a one-off.

Somehow when I am at the racetrack, I don't really realise what is happening and I just focus on the job.

The goal is not to count medals, it's just racing the best I can.

If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.

I will drive flat out all the time. I love racing.

What matters to me is that I get the most out of myself and my racing.

I wear a continuous glucose monitor when I'm racing.

The Olympics are a world apart from racing for a record. You put out of your mind pretty much what anyone else doing in the race.