“You dream what you’re supposed to do.”

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.

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

What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.

Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.

The nature of competition is such that any number of people invariably have their eyes on the same prize you do. Recognize your assets and employ them to the best of your ability.

I think it’s so interesting which ways your career can go. I would have been a completely different actor doing a completely different story, and I would have missed ‘Lady Macbeth.’

Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.

I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.

The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.