Getting up in front and talking to the people who build my cars is the worst. I get so damn nervous.

The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose.

The only way to be productive is to be positive.

If my wheel comes off and I hit the fence real hard, I get to whack every damn one of you with a hammer.

I'm just trying not to get run over. That's number one. Number two is you gotta catch the guy in front of ya.

I've already done enough to have earned 'good driver,' so if I can be known as a great person and a good driver, that's better than only being a great driver.

That's life. You've got to deal with it, good and bad. We'll be all right. I mean, if we make the chase, we make it. If we don't, we don't.

Tried on daddy's 1979 rookie firesuit a while back. Smelled every bit of 36 years old.

There's some sorta big bar-be-que goin' on here in turn three. There's smoke all over the track! Some fan's got a big one goin' on.

My father could look straight ahead but concentrate on something on the very edge of his vision, almost nearly behind him.

You would not believe how loose this car is for two laps after the green. Then, just like that, it's back to how it was before. But, those first few laps, damn, it's loose! JUNIOR NO LIKEY!

No struggle, no success! The strongest thunder strikes often bring the heaviest rainfall! The weight of your fulfillment depends on how wide you cast your nets!

I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what´s cool.

Do your beliefs create your goals or are your beliefs a result of achieving your goals?

Our career is a dream. I mean, we get to act, travel around the world, and meet cool people. What's not to love!

The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.

I was born black, I attended all Negro schools including college, I grew up in the segregated South during Jim Crow. If anybody knows a racist, I do. Pat Buchanan ain't no racist.

The editing process is a necessary evil. I can write until the cows come home but it is all garbage until it gets edited.

Reverend Galamison is fighting a hard battle against great opposition, and I admire a man who fights a hard battle against great opposition.

You get [something] in your body that is the suffering or the problem, and then you [add] a second one, which is worry. In both cases, [it is] pointless.

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.