Top 35 Sebastian Vettel Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You can’t change what happened. But you can still change what will happen.”

— Sebastian Vettel

2. “Never lift. Never stop believing.”

— Sebastian Vettel

3. “Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.”

— Sebastian Vettel

4. “There is no reason not to be motivated. You cannot always be the best. But you can do your best.”

— Sebastian Vettel

5. “I put everything in that last lap, it was very emotional when I crossed the line. It was all I had, I gave it all.”

— Sebastian Vettel

6. “If anyone can achieve the impossible it’s you. Please, please, get it again.”

— Sebastian Vettel

7. “Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.”

— Sebastian Vettel

8. “There are some things that you can fulfil with money, but at the end of the day these are not the things that make you happy. It is the small things that make life good.”

— Sebastian Vettel

9. “Generally I don’t care about what people say. I have to be clear with myself. When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you.”

— Sebastian Vettel

10. “I don’t care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it.”

— Sebastian Vettel

11. “It’s correct that I’m a bad loser. Why should I lie? If I was good at losing I wouldn’t be in Formula 1. I think it’s more honest to act how you really feel than pretending to be the smiling boy who actually isn’t in the mood to smile.”

— Sebastian Vettel

12. “I don’t care what other people think as long as I am happy. The day I die or retire, I have blown all my chances because I don’t have the chance any more to change my image as an F1 driver.”

— Sebastian Vettel

13. “There are a few things that make me angry. Mostly things not going my way.”

— Sebastian Vettel

14. “If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn’t lose focus. That made the difference.”

— Sebastian Vettel

15. “You can’t always say what you’d like to say.”

— Sebastian Vettel

16. “At the end of your life, it’s friendships, emotions and thoughts that you take with you, rather than what’s in your bank account. So, even though people don’t have a lot here, they are a lot richer in many ways and we can learn from that.”

— Sebastian Vettel

17. “All these nice people saying I’m going to be world champion won’t make me any faster, you have to believe it yourself.”

— Sebastian Vettel

18. “Like a ship, a car should be named after a girl as it’s sexy. My original car was called Kate. But then it got smashed at the opening race in Australia. So we called this one Kate’s Dirty Sister because it is more aggressive and faster.”

— Sebastian Vettel

19. “When you walk the track and you see a corner and realise you were going round it at 160mph, you wonder who could be so stupid to take a corner at that speed. But in the car, you don’t even think about that.”

— Sebastian Vettel

20. “When I went into the last lap I was regretting a bit that it was over. I was enjoying again the first sector for the last time. Simply fantastic this circuit, and if you get 53 laps more, you appreciate it even more. It’s made by God’s hands.”

— Sebastian Vettel

21. “Driving at high speed where safe and legal is part of my life. As well as a higher top speed I wanted even better stability in my FX and that meant work on the aerodynamics.”

— Sebastian Vettel

22. “I come from an ordinary family – my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker – and we’ve always loved racing together.”

— Sebastian Vettel

23. “The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous.”

— Sebastian Vettel

24. “Unbelievable how silly this Formula 1 is these days, with this stupid overtakes.”

— Sebastian Vettel

25. “Teams like Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes are going to be very, very motivated to go for the titles.”

— Sebastian Vettel

26. “We have reason to feel good, but it’s also a threat to feel too good and I will pay attention that that doesn’t happen.”

— Sebastian Vettel

27. “After 10 weeks away from Formula One, when they started the engine here at Valencia and everything was vibrating, I found myself sitting in the RB7 and smiling.”

— Sebastian Vettel

28. “I’m German but I didn’t say that. I have no moustache.”

— Sebastian Vettel

29. “I have always watched the Race of Champions on TV every year and dreamed about participating one day. It’s fantastic to be invited; I’m so happy. To represent Team Germany together with Michael Schumacher is a great honor.”

— Sebastian Vettel

30. “I’m very proud to be the first winner of the Indian Grand Prix, but then on the other hand we recently lost two of our mates. I didn’t know Dan Wheldon, but he was big in motorsport, and then this year I got to know Marco Simoncelli, so our thoughts are with them at the moment.”

— Sebastian Vettel

31. “All in all it was a smooth race, the car was very well balanced. I’m very proud to be the first winner here in India.”

— Sebastian Vettel

32. “As a driver, your target is always to be with the most competitive team possible.”

— Sebastian Vettel

33. “I remember my first test in F1. After five laps, I came back to the pits and tried to play it cool – ‘Oh yeah, I’m fine, I’m on top of this’ – but I was completely lost.”

— Sebastian Vettel

34. “Whenever I have to do something, I try to minimise the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait.”

— Sebastian Vettel

35. “If you are out in two races and someone else has a good couple of races, it could change. So all we do is try to get the optimum every time.”

— Sebastian Vettel

36. “Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It’s like a rush, I really enjoy that.”

— Sebastian Vettel

37. “I was quite emotional when I finished my lap, but had to wait for other drivers to cross the line to hear whether I’d actually done it. It feels very special, but I acknowledge that the old master, Nigel Mansell, took his 14 poles from only 16 races.”

— Sebastian Vettel

38. “It’s very shocking for me to see pictures from my win here in 2008. I aged.”

— Sebastian Vettel

39. “Our car looks better than everything I’ve seen so far.”

— Sebastian Vettel