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.

I’m bad at picking heroes.

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.

When we have the ball, the other team has to run. The most important thing is for the players to be prepared to be a little bit wild.

To the audience, it’s like I’m changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show’s almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy’s aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.

Service of any type requires preparation.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

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.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you’ve had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you’re pretty polished.

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.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, ‚What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?‘

Growing up I’ve watched Lewis and aspired to have some of his attributes, mainly his speed. His raw pace is probably the best of everyone on the whole grid, so there are bits you want from different drivers.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.

Computers double their performance every month.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

I didn’t like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions – the curtain was up.

Whatever I am, it’s natural… I don’t have to pretend to be aggressive, don’t have to show the opposition that I am on the field. Being aggressive comes naturally to me, helps me perform.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

There’s a reason that I have confidence out there, and it’s about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we’ve got to stick with that kind of thought process.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument – learning to do your craft – that’s the most important thing! It’s not about what goes on in a computer!

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

If you look at me in ‚Ride Along,‘ even though I’m playing two different characters, my demeanor and my tone were not aggressive.

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.

Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

I can’t tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I’d done so much reading.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

Oh yes. I’m an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.

When you’re in comedy, people always come up and say, ‚Oh, it must be so hard.‘ It really isn’t hard unless you’re not good at it. If you can do it, its really kind of fun and easy.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

I’ve done films where we don’t rehearse, and I’ve done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

I never wanted to perform and never proclaimed myself to be a performer.

I’ve got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I’ve done it.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Stand-up is hard.

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

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.