“I love technology – yes, I have fallen in love with older cars, but I’m all for new technology.”

It seemed like whenever I got a bona fide offer from Ferrari, I couldn’t do it. And vice versa – when I was ready, their seats were taken.

Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.

When you start thinking you may get hurt, it’s time to get out of racing.

You do the best you can with what’s thrown at you, then you try again.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with the expansion to countries like Asia, China, Malaysia.

You see people in the left lane, and as long as they are on the speed limit, they stay there. Get in the right lane and let people pass you.

I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.

Nothing compares to the Indianapolis 500.

The most important thing at Daytona is, are you going to have friends willing to work with you during the race as far as drafting?

As far as I’m concerned, Parnelli Jones was the greatest driver of his era. He had aggressiveness and also a finesse that no one else possessed. And he won with everything he put his hands on, including off-road.

The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.

I don’t want to go out there and do something 3,000 other people can do.

I don’t remember as a kid wanting to do or be anything else but drive something, be a race driver.

I think it’s counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don’t.

A commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

The day of parochialism in sports is over. The world is too small for what people like to call ‘the good old days.’

I’m present at all pyrotechnical rehearsals; and I walk through everything step-by-step.

Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.

Since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.

Prayer and encouraging words change things. We’re all human. We all go through stuff.

Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.

Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.

Over all, I want you to discover the joy of creation by your own hand.

All these young books for women are like I’m 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can’t get a date. Come on.