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Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.

Second place is the first loser.

Get the hell out of my way!

Driving fast on the track does not scare me. What scares me is when I drive on the highway I get passed by some idiot who thinks he is Fangio.

It’s basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991

It’s basically the same, just darker.

Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than others.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

When I look fast, I’m not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.

When you win a race your on top that day, so take it for what its worth, have a good time and party, cause the next day when you get out of bed, the meter goes back to zero again.

The price for men in motion is the occasional collision.

The older I get, the faster I was.

The harder you work, the luckier you become.

The Showdown is a great way to bring attention to these historic Virginia tracks where many NASCAR drivers cut their teeth in stock car racing, including myself. Tracks like South Boston and Langley are the heart of the sport and draw a great crowd to our Showdown events.

Wrecks are going to happen in this business, that’s just a risk of the sport. If you can’t keep from worrying about it, then you’re in the wrong line of work.

Racing is the constant search for the weakest link.

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports… all the others are games.

Race cars are neither beautiful nor ugly. They become beautiful when they win.

I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.

Aerodynamics are for people who can’t build engines.

What’s behind you doesn’t matter.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built.

The client is not always right.

If lightning strikes while you’re in the car it’s your fault.

Indy car racing is much more aggressive.

The reason why some people love to engage in dangerous activities, such as mountain climbing, car racing, and so on, although they may not be aware of it, is that it forces them into the Now – that intensely alive state that is free of time, free of problems, free of thinking, free of the burden of the personality.

Every time my cameras go out on a movie, we learn something new and then we take what we learn and we put it into the next generation of the cameras so we’re constantly improving. It’s kind of like building a race car, racing it, then running back to the shop and working on the engine some more and tinkering with it to improve it.

Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

The best way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a big one.

It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance.

We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt ‘possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.

Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that’s what gets you.

In the old days drivers were fat and tires were skinny.