But really - look at the span of my career, and it's something people dream about. And to be spared major injury: I had some moments along the way, but being able to retire on my own terms after having driven during those decades when safety conditions were more precarious than today - am I lucky, or  what?

I will always enter a race car from the left side. Always. Why? I have no idea.

You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again.

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.

Anybody who can drive and doesn't come out of it a rich man is a fool.

Young drivers are supposed to be hard on equipment. That's how you learn.