“The first thing I noticed about him was that he was born the same year I was drafted. … That’s a pretty scary thought.”

Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.

I was the second-best player in high school. I was the second pick in the draft.

You’ve got to have friends out there. You can’t do it alone. You form those relationships as the race moves along.

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.

The most important thing at Daytona is, are you going to have friends willing to work with you during the race as far as drafting?

I used to say my biggest accomplishment was just getting drafted, whether it was the first pick or the 100th or whatever.

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don’t draft people; it’s not jury duty.

“The Diagnosis” had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes.