“Nothing compares to the Indianapolis 500.”

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.

But every race conducted on real streets has a character of its own – Barcelona, Monaco, and now Long Beach.

If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that’s their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.

Staging Formula One is incredibly expensive.

You dream what you’re supposed to do.

Can the U.S. support two Formula 1 races? I think so.

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 didn’t have to work out before 35 but now I have to.

If I wasn’t five-foot, I wouldn’t be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.

Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)

Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.

Well, well, he said. Five days a week isnt enough of me? Had to give me an evening, too?

…Five minutes from now, when everything else had dropped away and i realized the full impact of what id done, id feel my heart breaking.

If i’d wanted you dead five minutes ago, you’d have died five minutes ago.

Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.