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

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

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.

At Indy, we are the NASA of the production-car world, and that’s clearly why manufacturers are involved – it’s such a good testbed.

All of those things can happen – and then you give an interview two seconds later.

I look at myself as the luckiest man alive.

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.

A father-son relationship is strong, like no other teammates. You could be straightforward with one another.

There’s something special about racing in real streets. The ‘artificial’ circuits have a certain sameness to them.

Let the police worry about somebody who wants to speed. Don’t force them pass in the right lane and zig zag, which can create an accident, just because you think you’re correct.

Whenever you’re aggressive, you’re at the edge of mistakes.

I’ve always said, ‘I didn’t have a Plan B in life.’ I was in pursuit of my dream from the very beginning. It’s all about desire and passion. At all costs.

From a prestige standpoint, the U.S. needs to host Formula 1. And I think Formula 1, they know they need the U.S. as well. So many companies that are global are based in the United States support Formula 1.

Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit.

His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.

Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass.

I don’t believe in pressure. Pressure is when you don’t know where your next meal is coming from.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.

It doesn’t matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It’s never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.

Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.