“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?”

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.

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

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.