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

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.

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.

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.

Try to get inside the world of Homer and see what it would be like to think with his view of reality. Only then can you begin to judge it, because only then do you really understand it.

Be comfortable with being uncomfortable with negative habits.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.

My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

Sometimes I just want to lick David Lee Roth in the nuts

If you can stay back, you can wait an extra split-second longer, and then you become more relaxed, and that's when you gain confidence.

A man can dignify his rank; no rank Can dignify a man.

True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence.

I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.