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.

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

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

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

I didn't miss out on a family life because of racing. I had one because of it.

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.

When I first started racing, my father said, "Win the race as slow as you can.