Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.

There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile.

Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall.

Racing has become more show time; we've got to have something new to create interest in the sport.

You can work hard, do everything that you think is right, but one thing you'll never overcome in life is fate. You can't control fate.

If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd.

I closed my eyes, held my breath and then everything went black.