“Quite honestly, I treat myself with cars I really want to drive, and I have some flexibility to do that.”

When you start thinking you may get hurt, it’s time to get out of racing.

You do the best you can with what’s thrown at you, then you try again.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with the expansion to countries like Asia, China, Malaysia.

You see people in the left lane, and as long as they are on the speed limit, they stay there. Get in the right lane and let people pass you.

I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.

Nothing compares to the Indianapolis 500.

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?

As far as I’m concerned, Parnelli Jones was the greatest driver of his era. He had aggressiveness and also a finesse that no one else possessed. And he won with everything he put his hands on, including off-road.

The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.

I don’t want to go out there and do something 3,000 other people can do.

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

I think it’s counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don’t.

A commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

The day of parochialism in sports is over. The world is too small for what people like to call ‘the good old days.’

I love technology – yes, I have fallen in love with older cars, but I’m all for new technology.

My last race was at Le Mans in 2000, my first race was in 1959, so I dodged a lot of bullets along the way, I can tell you that.

Watch and enjoy Mixed Martial Arts, and if some people are thinking about doing it.

I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.

Most people aren’t unsuccessful in life because they don’t know what to do. They are unsuccessful because they don’t DO what they know how to do. Knowledge is power IF…you use it.

Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.

I always check my harness before I do a stunt; I test-drive the cars I have to race or explode.

The public does not know what is possible. We do.

Love scenes are the hardest things in the world and if you enjoy them, that’s wonderful, because nobody making them sits there and goes, ‘Let’s do that again tomorrow.’

Do I feel good enough? Do I feel big enough? Do I feel sexy enough?” Some days, the answer is ‘yes’ but sometimes it’s not.