Retiring is getting ready to die.

I assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver.

Indy makes the race driver. You become famous when you come here.

Throwing dirt at a diamond does not diminish its value.

For no one, in our long decline, So dusty, spiteful and divided, Had quite such pleasant friends as mine, Or loved them half as much as I did.

You see things You keep quiet about them. You understand.

The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.

Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass.

My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

That's what I love about running - I feel like we all celebrate each other. Even if you're racing somebody at the finish, it's like you're in it together.

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.