In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.

In racing, I wanted to be a winner and to be a winner, you have to be willing to roll the dice.

My son is racing his first 24-hour this year with Porsche.

I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say

Competitiveness has been a big thing for me.

Obviously it's critical that the three cars are able to contribute to the program. I think that certainly has given much of the reason as to why we did so well at Indy over the last several years.

Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.

What's really hit me over the years is that you go to every race and see all the well-wishers, and you really feel like you are connected with people after all these years.

There's a tremendous number of the Daytona Prototypes.

I'd seen people overstay their welcome and I didn't want that to happen at all.

I have never had problems sleeping the night before a race.

Cookies. A pin. I'm getting all kinds of gifts today. Madge gives me one more. A kiss on the cheek. Then she's gone and i'm left thinking that maybe Madge really has been my friend all along.

You can tell who your friends are because they don’t prevent you from being on your own, because they illuminate your solitude without interrupting it.

Ziggy, when you go up bring me up and when you go down don't let me down. Stephen, Money can't buy you life.

I believe a calm dog is a happy, obedient dog that won't get into trouble.

At the end of the day, tech workers are not robots: they feel, they think, they have values.

I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext, the bridge between the mind of the painter and the mind of the spectator.

I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.

Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement.

Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?

I used to be a narrator for bad mimes.