I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent I had a pretty unhappy home life.

There is never enough horsepower......just not enough traction.

Porsche and BMW drivers are arrogant.

Yesterday's History. Tomorrow's a Mystery. So live for today.

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

If you don't go do what you wanna do, you're just bullshitting yourself.

My proudest moments are beating Ferrari for the World Championship in 1965, and working with Ford to win Le Mans in 1966 and 1967.

I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.

Any man that eats Chili and Cornbread can't be all bad

I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

There are lots of things we're able to do, but I'd like to land on the one thing I was MADE to do.

Often the best guys are just those that can suffer longer, who don't give up. And it's so easy to give up, when you're on a mountain and it's really hurting. We go through a lot physically.

When there is nothing left to hide, there is nothing left to seek.

To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me.

Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad.

Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action.

It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.

I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.