The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses.

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

There's something special about racing in real streets. The 'artificial' circuits have a certain sameness to them. But every race conducted on real streets has a character of its own - Barcelona, Monaco, and now Long Beach.

I don't have many superstitions, just dumb things I don't talk about. I will not sign an autograph with a green pen.

I'm so thankful that I've had such a long and uninterrupted [knocks wood] career... I count my blessings every day for that because it was so fulfilling.

Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that's really what it feels like.

It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.