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.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having to nail the lap.

That’s what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

I’m not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world’s best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.

Even though I had won in other categories, I didn’t have any expectations when I came into F1. Qualifying fifth, finishing sixth? I didn’t expect it.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

Expect me to continue what I’ve been doing, which is trying to take over the world.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

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

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

In my heart, I’m confident I could make a good president.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

I didn’t know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that’s what I was going to be.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

There’s no reason why I can’t be a mogul. When I step into a room and I’m there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he’s talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. ‚Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that’s mass production.

You know, I’m trying to chase rings, and that’s all I’m about. So that’s where the conversation stops for me.

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.

I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.

I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.