“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.”

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.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

I had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder.

At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.

I never wanted to just glamorize the playa lifestyle and not touch on the down side. I wanted everyone who’s in a desperate situation to know that, if they wanna choose that kinda lifestyle, they gotta be aware of everything that comes with it! It’s not just about the cars, the ladies and the money.

An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.

Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.

I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.

What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.

Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.