As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.
He who understands, as always, can make his car work better than he who does not.
At some point in every racer's life he has to make his peace with cheating. I do not approve of cheating. . . at all. Of course, like every successful racer, I differentiate between taking advantage of loopholes in the regulations, stretching the grey areas and outright cheating. In any given racing series I will not start the cheating. If someone else starts it, I will appeal to them and to the officials to stop it. If my efforts do not succeed, then I'll show them how it is done.
The racing driver needs to be fed a diet of other racing drivers.
Until we have established reliability there is no sense at all in wasting time trying to make the thing go faster.
We normally learn at least as much from our mistakes as we do from our successes. The best development driverengineer I ever knew once told me that he reckoned that about 20% of his bright ideas worked.
Planning, evaluation, reasoning and establishing prioritites are all more important than brilliance - either behind the wheel or at the drawing board.
As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.
I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I just thought, what a great concept for a song.
Don't you ever wish you were someone else. You were meant to be the way you are exactly. Don't you ever say you don't like the way you are. When you learn to love yourself, you're better off by far.
Solving problems—actually solving them, not just claiming you do—solving perceived, urgent problems, is a surefire way to get the world to beat a path to your door.