“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.

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

I have no regrets in my life even the crazy things I’ve been in. It all made me the I am today and I wouldn’t change anything. I’m happy with who I am!

It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.

It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.

There hasn’t been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres.

She realized now wrong she’d been; the pali wasn’t a headstone and Kalaupapa wasn’t a grave.

Since 1937, about half the forests in the world have been cut down to make paper.

Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.

The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years.