With racing, there's not one thing you need to be really strong at, it's a combination. You need a good base of cardio, good core, good neck strength. I think core and neck are the most important, but it's certainly not my favourite. Neck training is pretty boring.

Daniel Ricciardo

I'm in this sport to win but win by being the best, not by being lucky.

Daniel Ricciardo

Everything you can learn from is an opportunity to become stronger.

Daniel Ricciardo

In the end, you have to just pull the trigger. Trust the car, trust the brakes, just go.

Daniel Ricciardo

I will always find a way to find a positive from things.

Daniel Ricciardo

Music is how I unwind. I love going to see bands or DJs at a festival or a dive bar. My taste is pretty diverse.

Daniel Ricciardo

I used to go to work with Dad on the weekend. We'd drive past an indoor go-kart track every now and then, and we went there a few times. I was never tall enough, so I always left upset. I think I was seven when I was the right height, and I was like, 'Please let me have a go.' It was love at first sight.

Daniel Ricciardo

On a bad day, I'll still have a conscious thing in my mind reminding me that what I think of as a bad day is still a very good day in probably 90% of the world's population's eyes.

Daniel Ricciardo

Formula One was just cool. I loved racing, all types of racing, but from a young age, Formula One was the noise and everything, and that's what I was drawn to. I already knew when I was younger, the coolest guys are in F1... not that NASCAR drivers aren't cool, but that was always what I had in my head!

Daniel Ricciardo

I love music which helps me get focused and keeps my thoughts away from other things. The music gets heavier as the race gets closer, and my warm up routine starts to get a bit more intense with heart rates, etc.

Daniel Ricciardo

I know people fear me when they see me in their mirrors. It's a good position to be in because they know they need to defend to the limit.

Daniel Ricciardo

Pressure's what you make of it.

Daniel Ricciardo

I'm the most ripped guy on the grid, let's just say that.

Daniel Ricciardo

With racing, there's not one thing you need to be really strong at, it's a combination. You need a good base of cardio, good core, good neck strength. I think core and neck are the most important, but it's certainly not my favourite. Neck training is pretty boring.

Daniel Ricciardo

For my family, it was quite emotional because it has always been a dream of mine to be in Formula 1. For them, to see it come true was quite a special feeling.

Daniel Ricciardo

Pretty much all the drivers I get on with, at least to say 'Hi' and have a conversation. But when the helmet's on, you don't care who it is. You have no sympathy: someone blows an engine in front of you, if it means you gain a position, then you're smiling.

Daniel Ricciardo

I feel like even if I was to, say, trip and fall over on the way to the car and scratch all my arm, by the time I got in the car, it would be blacked out in my head.

Daniel Ricciardo

I think once you get into the routine of race weekends, and there's more of a structure, it gets a bit easier.

Daniel Ricciardo

I don't see my family often enough, but when we do catch up, it's somewhere new in the world. They get to travel more than they would if I wasn't doing this sport.

Daniel Ricciardo

I love coming to America to race. Maybe that's because I'm a big fan of NASCAR as well.

Daniel Ricciardo

I was fascinated by racing as a kid, but no way would I have thought I'd make it into Formula One from here, from being from Perth, racing on little local go-kart tracks, you know.

Daniel Ricciardo