I don’t race cars.

I raced with my brother from when I started to 2014 when I finished karting.

I’m not a nerd, don’t plan to be a nerd and read books – which I can’t do at all.

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

I saw MotoGP on TV first, before I saw F1 and other types of car racing. It’s what I got more into. It was cool, there was good, exciting racing.

The Pirellis you can push for a couple of laps and then you’ve got to start saving. It’s not easy.

Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.

When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan.

Rappers aren’t the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone’s business to be super wealthy.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don’t have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.

McLaren were one of the first teams I liked and supported.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today’s terms, I always default to reading.

Every driver is different, so I just hope whatever I do is going to be good enough, because it’s not that I just want to be with McLaren. I want to win with McLaren.

F2 cars have downforce; they’re quick. But it’s difficult for your brain and eyes to keep up with everything that’s going on once you’re in an F1 car. You get used to it and you learn to stay calm, because if you react too quickly the opposite will happen. Being more relaxed is when it becomes more natural and controlled.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

I know I’m not supposed to like muscle cars, but I like muscle cars.

In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I’d be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I’d have a hairy conniption. I’d just go crazy.

I kind of look up to Lewis, not as a hero, but as a very good driver who is very fast. Everyone has to admire his pace, especially in qualifying. He is a driver I support, in terms of him being British, and I want him to win, but he isn’t an idol to me.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn’t have to go so fast.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

I don’t like to be bored.

I wanted to race cars. I didn’t like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

That summer after the draft was probably the most fun I’ve ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.

If I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn’t a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.

I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I’ll leave those things to the men.

I read poetry to save time.

There are no small accidents on this circuit.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

I’m loving my role as a McLaren Young Driver, spending time in the simulator at the McLaren Technology Centre and attending some Grands Prix with the team.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

As a British driver, you get compared to Lewis and I get that. But when he came to McLaren, they were doing well and had a championship-winning car. I’m in a very different situation so I don’t compare myself to his stats.

I like talking. I like acting.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

I like the word ‚autopilot‘ more than I like the word ‚self-driving.‘ ‚Self-driving‘ sounds like it’s going to do something you don’t want it to do. ‚Autopilot‘ is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

The biggest difference in the wet between F2 and F1 is that there’s so much more power in F1 as being on the throttle earlier has a bigger advantage.

I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.