Don't ever wrestle with a pig. You'll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.

Driving a race car is like dancing with a chain saw.

If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.

If you don't take a chance-you won't have a chance.

I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport.

During a race, it's like I become a machine and the machine becomes a man. I talk to my cars, baby them, shout at them, praise them.

Action is where sacrifice is honoured and where you require persistence and courage to endure all that life throws in your direction.

they were forbidden words, laced with the fear of transgression and sin.

If it had been a heart attack, the new

You change the rules or you are going under.

When you reminisce aren't the times that someone's forcing you to reminisce. You reminisce other times in your life.

People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to control their own lives.

Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.

The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.

I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.