Richard Petty

No one wants to quit when he’s losing and no one wants to quit when he’s winning.

Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall.

I didn’t miss out on a family life because of racing. I had one because of it.

We drove for the sheer fun of driving because there wasn’t that much money to be made.

NASCAR will make this decision strictly on the greenery, OK? They’ve got no loyalty to one place or another place [as if North Wilkesboro, Rockingham and Darlington need reminding]. They’ve got loyalty to money. And I don’t blame them. I’d do the same thing.

“Success in life is knowing the difference between ham and eggs; the chicken’s involved, the pig is committed.”

Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their lives. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

Cocaine is God’s way of saying that you’re making too much money.

Every person has a signature. Just some people don’t know it yet.

The good Lord doesn’t tell you what His plan is, so all you can do is get up in the morning and see what happens next.

We often read transcripts of Trump’s speeches, and it’s something that everyone should actually do once in a while. When you strip away his blindingly confident delivery and just read his words, it is staggering how incoherent he is.

If I could be anyone, I’d choose the lead singer of Arcade Fire, Win Butler.

I hope im not that close to my character, I hate him, I used to hate everbody like Cedric in my school.

I just want to continue being able to get roles that scare me and make me better and I think I can only grow as an artist if I do things that are scaring me and making me uncomfortable because that’s the only place you’ll learn anything.

If you really want something, you’ve gotta just do it and not wait for other people to hand it to you.

When you’re on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

I’ve still got a twinkle in me.

[on Kylie Jenner’s cover shoot] I need a half hour to cry

Well, I speak for my show only when I say we’re in debt to journalists because we’re just pulling clips all day long which they made in the first place. We know that a lot of people watching our show haven’t been watching the news as closely as we have – they haven’t been following hundreds of reporters on Twitter all day. So I guess our goal is to say: ‘Hey, here’s what happened today in 10 minutes, and hopefully we’ll tell you in a way that won’t make you throw your remote at the television’.

There’s nothing wrong with getting 20 million viewers, but I think there’s something wrong with aiming at getting 20 million viewers, because then you have to take away all the things that will offend, and you’ll end up with something so anodyne that it just washes over you for half an hour. I imagine The Office was also one of the most hated shows on television, that some people passionately hated it. But that’s better, for me. David Bowie said that after Let’s Dance, which is his biggest album ever and obviously not his best, he was doing these stadium gigs and looked out at the audience and suddenly realized that he had Phil Collins fans instead of Iggy Pop fans. And that’s how I feel about everything I do: I want Iggy Pop fans.

I wanted to be a secretary, I love paper clips and staplers