Sebastian Vettel Quotes

Don't you ever ask me for a true statement again!

Boy, do I hate to lose.

I'm a winner...I'm a competitor. That's what I do. It doesn't make sense for me to go over and shake somebody's hand.

I hate to play a tournament in which I'm not contending. It's just not any fun for me.

I enjoy watching competitive people. You watch 'em come and you watch 'em go, and how they try to be the best. How they handle when they're not. How they handle when they are. How they get along together on the court.

I would say Hope Solo is competitive.

I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.

I would cry after losses when I was a kid and pout. But I played like that.

We play fair and we play hard. If we win the game we win, if we lose the game, we lose.

I used to be short-tempered on the field when it came to winning or losing.

I don't like losing. I don't like to be in a losing position, and I show this a lot. I demonstrate on the pitch.

I get quite stroppy if I lose - but I've developed skills with a mind coach to help deal with the highs and lows of tennis at this level.

I'm more of a purist competitor, and I enjoy the fighting aspect of it, but people enjoy my personality, and they enjoy that I tell the truth.

I play with the same energy, passion and fire that I played with as a 10-year-old in north Alabama, and I'll continue to play that way. I think sometimes that's misrepresented. There's nothing I say out there that I can't say to my mom, wife or daughters. It's all clean.

I was getting sick of losing and watching other players winning all the titles on TV.

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.

The nicer I am, the more people think I'm lying.

One of the things that attracted me to Barack [Obama] was his emotional honesty. Right off the bat he said what he felt. There are no games with him - he is who he appears to be.

The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.

I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.

It's about how the players play and compete. I know everybody is going to equate that on winning or losing, like they always do, but if we play hard and compete well in the game .. then I think we are building on something.

It's hard for me to congratulate somebody after you just lose to them. I'm a winner. It's not being a poor sport or anything like that. If somebody beats you up, you're not going to congratulate them. That doesn't make sense to me. I'm a competitor.

I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the same question over and over again: Is this the truth, or not? I begin this letter to you, then, in the western tradition. If I understand it, the western tradition is: Put your cards on the table.

I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.