Driving Ambition Quotes

I have a real passion for driving. Earlier on in my life I wanted to be a race car driver. But I don't pay an extortionate amount of money for cars. I'm pretty frugal.

Since I was a child I've been looking up to Formula One. Dreaming to be a Formula One driver.

Michael [Schumacher] was a phenomenal driver but for me, Ayrton Senna was the greatest ever. If I could get one world championship that would be great; if I could win three, the same number as Ayrton did, that would be a dream. But I want to be the best driver there has ever been.

I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.

I said it was my dream to drive in F1.

If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.

When I was 7-years-old I, discovered Go-Karts and started Karting, since then I thought to be an F1 driver, that was pretty much buried into my head.

I always want to be racing.

By being a racing driver means you are racing with other people. And if you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver because we are competing, we are competing to win.

Most people I know that are successful have a few things in common that are undeniable: driving ambition, and they have applied that to something they're good at, that they love doing... and they are fun to be around, especially when they're talking about their passion.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

I don't remember as a kid wanting to do or be anything else but drive something, be a race driver.

Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.

I wanted to be a race car driver when I was a kid.

I never had a driving ambition to be a star.