The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses.
You do the best you can with what’s thrown at you, then you try again.
Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.
Speed is relative. You have to live it. You can’t just jump into it. You have to live it all the time.
Anybody who can drive and doesn’t come out of it a rich man is a fool.
The only thing that happens if you wait, is that you get older.
When you are losing it can seem like there is a black cloud following you around, but like they say there is a silver lining in every cloud.
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 hole in the air that has to help. When you’re running alone, you can feel the difference, and it shows on the clock, too.
I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted.
Sebastian Vettel’s brilliant talent will ultimately come forth and he’ll continue to show what he’s capable of. I will never ever degrade Vettel’s ability. Sooner or later, he’ll prove anyone so wrong.
Sometimes you have to bring back only the steering wheel so the car owner will know that you’re giving it all you have.
My biggest concern during a race is getting bored. The biggest thing I have to combat is falling asleep while going around and around.
I look at myself as the luckiest man alive.
Whenever you’re aggressive, you’re at the edge of mistakes.
I don’t have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there’s a lot of risk to it.
Tom Carnegie will never be replaced.
The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.
Nobody is born with a steering wheel or a gear shift in his hand. It’s something you choose to do or you don’t.
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 Long Beach.
Unfortunately, we don’t educate drivers enough to be respectful on the road.