The smell of fuel, driving on the limit on the edge of sliding, it just gives you a lot of adrenaline.
Max Verstappen
I think you can improve on everything; you're never perfect.
I don't need people shouting at me to tell me what I did wrong.
I've raced at the Hungaroring in Formula 3, and it's a bit of a Mickey Mouse track.
Mistakes happen, and they happen to the best of us.
In the end, I think in F1 it is very hard for a girl.
My career is more important than girls.
I really want to thank Red Bull Racing and Dr. Helmut Marko for the confidence they have in me.
I just want to do the best I can every time.
The only place that matters is first.
I want to win because I am the fastest out there instead, not by luck; then it means a lot more to you.
I was never Mad Max. I was just Max who was trying to get the best result for the team.
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.
You always want to do better than last year.
If you are not allowed to defend, what's racing about, then?
To be honest, it doesn't matter who is next to me in whatever team.
I have to say it was a very good start, a very good first season. I enjoyed it a lot, scored good points and gained a lot of experience.
I always wanted to be a racing driver. Even if it was not F1, it would be something else.
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.
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.
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.
I can't thank all the people at Scuderia Toro Rosso enough for all their hard work.
That's what I enjoy, always driving on the limit of what you can do.
Sometimes it's better to come through from, say, last to eighth than staying eighth, and you've qualified eighth!
To just slow yourself down, just to not do anything and drive around - I'm not like that. I'm not here to fill up the field.
As a driver, I will always be the same guy.
My dad always told me you have to be as quick as you can straight away out of the box. Some people say, 'Feel your way into it; build it up.' No. My dad would say, 'Straight away, you have to be there.' And I think that helps to warm up your tyres and brakes to be on it a bit more from lap one.
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.
My first memory of motor racing - I think it was just attending a go kart race.
When I was very little, my dad had his own go kart team as well while he was still in F1, so I always joined and riding through the paddock on my bicycle.
Preparation for Monaco is a little different: you definitely build up a little bit slower throughout the weekend and pace yourself. It's important to find the limit carefully.
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.
I did like history. I was always quite interested and got good grades as well.
You always try to fight for yourself, isn't it? You try to do the best possible job.
For me, it doesn't matter if you are fighting a world champion or not.
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 say what I think, and if somebody attacks me unfairly, I definitely tell them.
You always have to believe in yourself, and I had that from karting.
Maybe I can drive until I'm 36 or 37. 40.
I think it's always better to be in an F1 car because, in general, the car behaves itself.
It is very unfair, and on social media you have all these keyboard warriors who just type something, and they never say it to my face. That's very weak I find.
It is not only about just doing a fast lap. You also need to use your brains and be clever, and I think that is what makes you a complete driver at the end.
To be honest, I never compare myself with the rookies.
Ever since I was 7 years old, Formula 1 has been my career goal, so this opportunity is truly a dream come true.
As racing drivers, you always have those moments that it gets a bit heated, but then you start from zero again.
I think if you show respect on the track to each other, and you do clean overtaking moves, then they get respect for you.
Of course I think everybody has moments in their careers when they're frustrated, or you're not happy with the current situation.
I'm normally not really an angry person. Maybe some other people have a different opinion.
If you are a bit weak in your head, maybe you can train your mind, but it will never be your strong point.
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.
