“I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted.”

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.

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.

High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.

I feel like I’ve been very blessed to have some great mentors through the years, starting with Don James, who was my college coach, who really inspired me to want to be a coach, which is not something that I really had in mind.

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

So I definitely take time to realize where I’m at in my life. And I know that I’m blessed.

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.

I’m not the most religous person in the world, but I think the good Lord up there has blessed me.

My mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn’t drink. Even though we were poor, we would say a blessing over the table. So that’s who I am.

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.