“Even if it’s a long ways down the track, it punches a hole in the air that has to help. When you’re running alone, you can feel the difference, and it shows on the clock, too.”

You should never get away from where the real foundation of Formula One has been, which is Europe.

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.

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we’re not 100 per cent human, that we’re always letting ourselves down. We’re constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

I spent 35 years growing up in the U.S., and it had its ups and downs.

Doom is a classic supervillain, akin to the Phantom of the Opera. It’s not about revenge so much as, like.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.