Give yourself permission to shoot for something that seems totally beyond your grasp. You may be surprised at your capabilities

Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.

I would also tell kids to make sure that they love whatever they end up doing in life. To really be good at something and excel you have to love it and have to be dedicated to it. Not every day is great and not every day is easy, but you do it because you love it.

I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.

I feel like with Indy cars, you can just show up - if you are equipped to build and make a nice car, then you could be competitive. But in NASCAR I don't see that even being possible for someone to just show up with a car. There's too much evolution of the tricks and bells and whistles and all the things it takes to be fast in stock-car racing that you wouldn't know.

You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.

I've been taught from a young age to want to be the best driver... It was about being the best driver and not the best girl.