“I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.”

It makes great conversation to discuss what’s wrong with open-wheel racing today.

All of the courses that run through real streets are very demanding. There is no room for error, no shoulders to lean on.

Unfortunately, we don’t educate drivers enough to be respectful on the road.

The United States is the only country where a driver can have a successful career – either in stock cars or IndyCar – and he won’t need a passport.

I will never say ‘retired’ because that’s such a finality that I don’t want to be part of my life. I’ll work until they throw me in a box.

If you’re so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.

My wife loves football, but I think she’s resigned to the fact that I’ll never make it there.

Al Unser Sr. was one of the smartest drivers I’ve ever raced against.

Long Beach is the best. I tell everyone that.

I wish we could be 100% shielded from danger, but nothing is in life.

Same with golf: pick up a club. But not many can go out and get in a race car and experience a drive at over 200 miles an hour.

In NASCAR, you can do a lot of banging around and get pretty serious and even get yourself upside down.

If you go off the road, you’re into somebody’s shop-window or front porch.

Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that’s really what it feels like.

I’ve driven just about every kind of car there is.

I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted.

George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing ‘ER,’ and he’s able to parlay that into films. God willing, I’ll be up there in a few years.

Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.

It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.

One of the key things in the tech business in particular is that you need to be able to push boundaries.

If you are going to have a risk-taking culture, you can’t really look at every failure as a failure, you’ve got to be able to look at the failure as a learning opportunity.

We wouldn’t be able to buy things online, because your credit cards – they’ve probably been ripped off anyway, but they would be ripped off left and right every day if there wasn’t encryption.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I’m not capable, I’m too cowardly for that.