Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you'd better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day.

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

The first time I fired up a car, felt the engine shudder and the wheel come to life in my hands, I was hooked. It was a feeling I can't describe. I still get it every time I get into a race car.

Speed is relative. You have to live it. You can't just jump into it. You have to live it all the time.

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

If a neighbor is killed in a car accident, do you sell your car and stop driving?

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.