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

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.

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 think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes.

With God, anything that stands against you will always be inferior to what resides within you.

When a friend leaves you, you move on. When a best friend leaves you, part of you is gone

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.

Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You're trying to put in the right ingredients.

The most malicious kind of hatred is that which is built upon a theological foundation.

Recognition of the inevitability of comprehensive bureaucratization does not solve the problems that arise out of it.

We all can be masters at our craft, but you have to make sacrifices that come along with making that decision.

I couldn't see who swam in the darkness, who wore shadows like a second skin.

I didn't read a serious book until I was 19.