“You dream what you’re supposed to do.”

In the U.S., we really have fallen short of road-racing facilities that have kept up with the times, unfortunately, but it’s a fact.

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.

The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.

If a neighbor is killed in a car accident, do you sell your car and stop driving?

With tennis, you can go pick up a racket, take a lesson, and understand how much talent and skill it takes to be as good as the top pros.

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.

At Andretti Winery, I’m not the winemaker.

And I often said, I wish I could’ve had some of his patience. I know it would have worked for me many times.

If you weren’t on Chris Economaki’s radar screen, you probably weren’t on anybody’s.

You do a period of go-karting until you’re at the age of qualifying for a ride in a ‘school-kart,’ then you qualify for driving school. And several of the driving schools have a competition series for their own students.

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

You’re safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.

When a car’s ahead of you, as long as you can see it, you get a tow, just like the draft in NASCAR.

Tom Carnegie will never be replaced.

Fans want the best, wherever they come from.

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

I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.

By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.

The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.

If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short.

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field.

Go ahead, take out your dong.’ ‘I’m not taking out my dong. And by the way, who uses the word dong?

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.