Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall.

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

The good Lord doesn't tell you what His plan is, so all you can do is get up in the morning and see what happens next.

There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile.

Never put a question mark where God puts a Period

If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'

I didn't miss out on a family life because of racing. I had one because of it.

If you ain't trying to cheat a little, you ain't likely to win much.

Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.

You can work hard, do everything that you think is right, but one thing you'll never overcome in life is fate. You can't control fate.

When I first started racing, my father said, "Win the race as slow as you can.

Wisdom is worth more than money.

Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart and in spirit.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.

I don't think about taking a risk. I think about how far can I go. How can I make myself. What are the risks I must create.

My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.

[People] look at [Donald Trump] not prosecuting Hillary [Clinton] as maybe, uh-oh.

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

When a man angers you, he conquers you.