Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

If things don't seem out of control, you're not going fast enough.

When a car's ahead of you, as long as you can see it, you get a tow, just like the draft in NASCAR. Even if it's a long ways down the track, it punches a hole in the air that has to help. When you're running alone, you can feel the difference, and it shows on the clock, too.

In racing, there is no question who is best - the first one to cross the finish line wins first prize. But with wine, even if you make the best wine in the world, someone isn't going to like it, because it isn't their style. Judging wine is very subjective.

If you don't come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you're not trying hard enough

You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.

Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.