What I wanted to do was build an automobile.

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

Only the wise possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

E=mc2. Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared

There is often in people in whom 'the worst' has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced 'the worst' and survived it.

One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

I did a study of soldiers returning from Iraq, and their levels of PTSD were much higher if they had had to shoot a woman or child, even if they knew the person was a suicide bomber.

I've never said, 'I'm squeaky clean.' It's always the people who project that image that are hiding something. No one's squeaky clean.

But I didn’t realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people.

I work twice as hard as everybody else.