During a race, it's like I become a machine and the machine becomes a man. I talk to my cars, baby them, shout at them, praise them.

Don't ever wrestle with a pig. You'll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.

Driving a race car is like dancing with a chain saw.

If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.

If you don't take a chance-you won't have a chance.

I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport.

Your success lies in your ability to believe in yourself

A man should be more original than a bouquet of roses and a box of chocolates. Flowers die and sugar sticks to your hips like a permanent record to a criminal.

As if it would slide off their brains at an angle, leaving a scuff mark.

It's the people who seem weak who are always suprisingly strong, and the ones who seem strong who are unexpectledly weak.

Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.

If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.

In the colored reflection we have Life.

I have fake eye lashes on and they feel like tarantulas. But they're not real tarantulas.

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