The place where I had so much success as a driver would be where I had my first win as a team owner.

In racing, I wanted to be a winner and to be a winner, you have to be willing to roll the dice.

My son is racing his first 24-hour this year with Porsche.

I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say

Competitiveness has been a big thing for me.

Obviously it's critical that the three cars are able to contribute to the program. I think that certainly has given much of the reason as to why we did so well at Indy over the last several years.

Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.

What's really hit me over the years is that you go to every race and see all the well-wishers, and you really feel like you are connected with people after all these years.

There's a tremendous number of the Daytona Prototypes.

In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.

I'd seen people overstay their welcome and I didn't want that to happen at all.

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.

Then join in hand brave Americans all! By uniting we stand by dividing we fall.

I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.

You don't have to be a house to be haunted.

For a Christian, our fears about the future are rooted in those places where our will differs from God's will.

I don't do anything for the money.

I have a lot of chameleon qualities, I get very absorbed in my surroundings.

If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old 33 1/3 recording. Almost exactly like that. You could substitute it for that sound.

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.