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

If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.

Nobody had race savvy like Al Unser in his prime.

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.

To be able to thank Allah for a blessing is a blessing within itself.

I have been blessed with working with the best in the business.

You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.

I savour the adulation and love I have been getting from my fans and the blessings of elders in my family.

So we can feel grateful for what we have been given. Sadness soon disappears and, in return, we get inspired to bless others.

God Bless everyone and thank u so much.

It’s a fact of earthly life that when God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil opens the doors of hell to blast us.

I like to bless people and do things without the world knowing about it, because I’m not in it for the glory.