I don’t have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there’s a lot of risk to it.

You do a period of go-karting until you’re at the age of qualifying for a ride in a ‘school-kart,’ then you qualify for driving school. And several of the driving schools have a competition series...

Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that’s their problem. But if you do have...

It seemed like whenever I got a bona fide offer from Ferrari, I couldn’t do it. And vice versa – when I was ready, their seats were taken. We always had a relationship, but what’s...

I’ve driven just about every kind of car there is.

I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted.

I love technology – yes, I have fallen in love with older cars, but I’m all for new technology.

Whenever you’re aggressive, you’re at the edge of mistakes.

If the Indy Racing League didn’t have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.

If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.

There is so much more demand for Formula One than it can supply. You have governments investing in circuits all over the world, and the private sector sometimes has a tough time competing with that.

If you weren’t on Chris Economaki’s radar screen, you probably weren’t on anybody’s.

You’re safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.

I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.

Anybody who can drive and doesn’t come out of it a rich man is a fool.

Age doesn’t affect driving – how do you like that?

There’s something special about racing in real streets. The ‘artificial’ circuits have a certain sameness to them. But every race conducted on real streets has a character of its own – Barcelona, Monaco, and now...

When a car’s ahead of you, as long as you can see it, you get a tow, just like the draft in NASCAR. Even if it’s a long ways down the track, it punches a...

In the U.S., we really have fallen short of road-racing facilities that have kept up with the times, unfortunately, but it’s a fact.

Everything comes to those who wait… except a cat.

It makes great conversation to discuss what’s wrong with open-wheel racing today.

I think it’s counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don’t. You surround yourself with people who are the real experts.

At Andretti Winery, I’m not the winemaker.

I look at myself as the luckiest man alive.

You see people in the left lane, and as long as they are on the speed limit, they stay there. Get in the right lane and let people pass you – let the police worry...

My wife loves football, but I think she’s resigned to the fact that I’ll never make it there.

I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.

Not all teammates tell the truth.

The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.

I don’t remember as a kid wanting to do or be anything else but drive something, be a race driver.

If you’re so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.

Nobody had race savvy like Al Unser in his prime.

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.

When you start thinking you may get hurt, it’s time to get out of racing.

You dream what you’re supposed to do.

I still have the competitive spirit, which is good.

Unfortunately, we don’t educate drivers enough to be respectful on the road.

My last race was at Le Mans in 2000, my first race was in 1959, so I dodged a lot of bullets along the way, I can tell you that.

Nothing compares to the Indianapolis 500.

Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that’s really what it feels like.

You do the best you can with what’s thrown at you, then you try again.

I don’t want to go out there and do something 3,000 other people can do.

I wish we could be 100% shielded from danger, but nothing is in life.

Al Unser Sr. was one of the smartest drivers I’ve ever raced against. And I often said, I wish I could’ve had some of his patience. I know it would have worked for me many...

I like to think that the Grand Prix helped Long Beach to pretty much change its image.

Quite honestly, I treat myself with cars I really want to drive, and I have some flexibility to do that.

Tom Carnegie will never be replaced.

I’ve always said, ‘I didn’t have a Plan B in life.’ I was in pursuit of my dream from the very beginning. It’s all about desire and passion. At all costs.

Staging Formula One is incredibly expensive.