Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

It is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.

Let me ask you. If someone called you and offered you a ride in the Indianapolis 500 and you were a male race car driver, would you turn the ride down?

There is very little in civilized life that demands everything you got intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Driving is living. It's aggressive instead of passive living.

You drive the car, you don't carry it.

Racing is a calling, a passion.

Racing is a passion...at this level, a source of immense gratification. So the rest is no problem.

You can't band together to fight without trust. And without trust, there was no hope.

In order to get to heaven, Jesus said that you must be converted. I didn’t say it—Jesus said it!

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Now as before it is the vulgar and the vital and the possibility of its transformation into the beautiful which continues to challenge and fascinate me.

By leveraging their freedom from the bonds of location, corporations could now dictate the economic policy of governments.

Sweeter than any sungMy songs that found no tongue;Nobler than any factMy wish that failed of act.Others shall sing the song,Others shall right the wrong,-Finish what I begin,And all I fail of win.

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.

Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.