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

I see all these old people who don’t have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep. I will never say ‘retired’ because that’s such a finality that I don’t want to be part of...

Can the U.S. support two Formula 1 races? I think so.

With tennis, you can go pick up a racket, take a lesson, and understand how much talent and skill it takes to be as good as the top pros. Same with golf: pick up a...

The United States is the only country where a driver can have a successful career – either in stock cars or IndyCar – and he won’t need a passport.

Whatever the changes, from one era to the next, Pocono has maintained its character and significance to me, and it always will. My family shares this sentiment.

If a neighbor is killed in a car accident, do you sell your car and stop driving?

The most important thing at Daytona is, are you going to have friends willing to work with you during the race as far as drafting? You’ve got to have friends out there. You can’t do...

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

All of the courses that run through real streets are very demanding. There is no room for error, no shoulders to lean on. If you go off the road, you’re into somebody’s shop-window or front...

Foreign players is what makes golf so popular now.

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.

A father-son relationship is strong, like no other teammates. You could be straightforward with one another.

The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.

You should never get away from where the real foundation of Formula One has been, which is Europe. Of course, there is nothing wrong with the expansion to countries like Asia, China, Malaysia.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

In NASCAR, you can do a lot of banging around and get pretty serious and even get yourself upside down. All of those things can happen – and then you give an interview two seconds...

I always say that every win has something that is special.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

I love all motor sports at the top level.

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.