I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say.

Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.

I have never had problems sleeping the night before a race.

In racing, I wanted to be a winner and to be a winner, you have to be willing to roll the dice.

Today, the competition is considerably more intense.

We ran three cars last year. Unfortunately, as time went on, we did have to let a few people go, which we regretted, but just because of the situation.

Obviously it's critical that the three cars are able to contribute to the program. I think that certainly has given much of the reason as to why we did so well at Indy over the last several years.

I don't want people to remember me going through the motions.

In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.

At this stage of the game, I am not sure what the hell is going to happen.

Competitiveness has been a big thing for me.

The fans know that I have been giving it my all and that we had the good judgment to when to say when.

I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say.

What's really hit me over the years is that you go to every race and see all the well-wishers, and you really feel like you are connected with people after all these years.

I guess it is the sense of personal satisfaction that racing gives you that I am probably going to miss, because in racing you get that feedback very quickly.

The place where I had so much success as a driver would be where I had my first win as a team owner.

We tried to create advantages. We were never complacent.

You don't have to worry about whether the car is set up right or not, you know it is, and it's down to you. Ultimately, that's what every driver wants.

My son is racing his first 24-hour this year with Porsche.

I'd seen people overstay their welcome and I didn't want that to happen at all.

I am going to miss that time when you take that corner better than anybody else could have taken it on that lap or you do that great qualifying lap or you make that great pass or you bring a crippled car home.

There's a tremendous number of the Daytona Prototypes.

In racing I wanted to be a winner and to be a winner you have to be willing to roll the dice.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

I went to Bard College for a year. And then, even though I didn't think I should give my blood to the theater, I did go to N.Y.U., which is where I met Michael McKean.

I won't go so far as to say that novels sell in inverse proportion to their worth, for just occasionally, someone like Dickens or George Eliot comes along to prove the opposite.

Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.

Foxes was a movie that didn't do a lot of business but it didn't do too badly critically and eventually they offered me other things. The interesting thing was that next I tried a film called Star Man, which Michael Douglas was producing.

I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line.

The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect.

Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.

I deal with cultural issues whether they be in the Middle East, Far East, the Orient or the West. You broach questions in the context of their culture and then present Christian answers.

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence he can only be a victim never a martyr.

George Martin looks like Santa Claus, but he's got a wonderfully disturbed mind.

Ive been blessed to have A brother like you Youre my pal my buddy And my best friend too. And it means a lot Having a brother like you.

In my head, scenes are shot from certain angles; there are camera pans, all of that kind of stuff. Converting those visuals to comic format was mostly a matter of adapting them to the rhythm of paneling.

Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.

I strongly encourage listening to the radio to hear something you haven't heard before. It's a very healthy thing to do. It's strange: unless you reload your iPods every couple of weeks, you're listening to and recycling the same music all of the time. I'm serious. Listen to your radio station.

Cotton is my life.

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

The small amount of people that control the discourse around painting - I thought that the whole museum world was just a bunch of phonies, and I didn't really want to have anything to do with it. I guess I did installations, in a funny way, because they couldn't be commodified.

The majority of the world - including myself - we all have problems and difficulty in life, and life's messy. But there are great rewards in life, too.

I think the more mediocre you are the better you do because people need to think you're their friend, they don't want to be threatened by you, you've got to be warm, you've got to be not too smart, not too pretty, not too anything.

Letting go may sound so simple, but rarely is it a one-time thing. Just keep letting go, until one day it's gone for good.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Every time a thief steals he steals from his own peace from his own honor No man is as poor as a rich thief