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.
— Max Verstappen
I did like history. I was always quite interested and got good grades as well.
I think you can improve on everything; you're never perfect.
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.
I think it's always better to be in an F1 car because, in general, the car behaves itself.
The smell of fuel, driving on the limit on the edge of sliding, it just gives you a lot of adrenaline.
As racing drivers, you always have those moments that it gets a bit heated, but then you start from zero again.
As a driver, I will always be the same guy.
Of course my dad went to Formula One, so I think that my dad is the better driver of the two. But I think, for a girl, my mom was not too bad, of course.
I focus on myself, but all these stupid comments you read on social media and journalists, it's really stupid.
I've raced at the Hungaroring in Formula 3, and it's a bit of a Mickey Mouse track.
To be honest, it doesn't matter who is next to me in whatever team.
The thing is, all the time I press my radio button, it is broadcast, and sometimes it sounds a bit arrogant - especially the 'I'm not here to finish fourth' - and that is just what comes up in my mind.
You always try to fight for yourself, isn't it? You try to do the best possible job.
I've always been good at realising what went wrong and stuff, and I was always being able to look at the positives from it.
Of course I think everybody has moments in their careers when they're frustrated, or you're not happy with the current situation.
Sometimes I watch a football match, and I think I know better, but at the end of the day, we don't. So I think people need to appreciate more what we are trying to achieve in the car.
The only place that matters is first.
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.
Sometimes it's better to come through from, say, last to eighth than staying eighth, and you've qualified eighth!
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 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 grew up going to race rings, and I really enjoyed it.
Maybe I can drive until I'm 36 or 37. 40.
I was never Mad Max. I was just Max who was trying to get the best result for the team.
If you are not allowed to defend, what's racing about, then?
Mistakes happen, and they happen to the best of us.
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 think, in general, not only in Formula One but just in a lot of sports, when younger people come in and they do well, there's always a bit of talk going on. I think that's pretty normal.
I can't thank all the people at Scuderia Toro Rosso enough for all their hard work.
To be honest, I never compare myself with the rookies.
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.
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.
At the end of the day, driving on the limit, sometimes over it to achieve the best out of it, especially at such high speeds... mistakes are easily done.
I always wanted to be a racing driver. Even if it was not F1, it would be something else.
My first memory of motor racing - I think it was just attending a go kart race.
You always want to do better than last year.
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.
That's what I enjoy, always driving on the limit of what you can do.
I say what I think, and if somebody attacks me unfairly, I definitely tell them.
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.
In the end, I think in F1 it is very hard for a girl.
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.
Ever since I was 7 years old, Formula 1 has been my career goal, so this opportunity is truly a dream come true.
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.
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 really want to thank Red Bull Racing and Dr. Helmut Marko for the confidence they have in me.
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.
I just want to be myself. You learn from yourself, and that doesn't mean you have to drive slower; it actually means you have to drive faster, but maybe with a little bit in control, and that's what I learned.
In general, the spotlight has been on me.
