The Navajos have a saying they live by: 'A land where there is time enough and room enough.' I want that, too.

When I walk out into the street or go to the toilet, I don't think of myself as being black. Of course, other people think of me as black when I walk into a pub. Obviously being black is a part of me.

I really don't like to act. At the beginning, back in '51, I had to force myself to stick with it. I was real uncomfortable, real uncomfortable.

Stardom equals financial success and financial success equals security. I've spent too much of my life feeling insecure. I still have nightmares about being poor, of everything I own just vanishing away. Stardom means that can't happen.

I don't want to talk about nonsense because it doesn't help me.

Racing is life. Everything else is just waiting.

I need to have a reason why I'm doing something. Otherwise I'm lost.