It is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.

Let me ask you. If someone called you and offered you a ride in the Indianapolis 500 and you were a male race car driver, would you turn the ride down?

There is very little in civilized life that demands everything you got intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Driving is living. It's aggressive instead of passive living.

You drive the car, you don't carry it.

Racing is a calling, a passion.

Racing is a passion...at this level, a source of immense gratification. So the rest is no problem.

Llora todas tus lágrimas reprimidas, Victoria, deja salir tu tristeza. Yo estaré aquí para sostenerte. - Diego Alcorta.

The Bible is not religion, nor are the Vedas. The Torah is not religion, nor is the Quran, or any other scripture on earth.

The bravest thing that men do is love women.

We are generally forced to choose one way or the other of distancing ourselves from Kant. I suppose I tend to choose the irreligious way. But I regret that Kant's path has not been followed.

What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.

Maybe there's only a dark road up ahead. But you still have to believe and keep going. Believe that the stars will light your path, even a little bit.

Can you see the hand of God in your own life?

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

I just know that the one thing that we all have in common is challenges. No one lives a challenge free life.

Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.