Richard Petty

Now they’re getting so politically correct you can’t even stick your tongue out at somebody.

If Kyle had ever been dedicated to nothing but driving, he’d have been really, really good. But he wanted to do a lot of other things. He’s always been that way. Still is.

At least when the race starts, he’ll know where they’re all at because they’ll all be in front of him.

I don’t now what situation they came from and I don’t know what they were offered to go somewhere else. It’s the times now, There’s not a any loyalty for anyone or anything – a whole lot. Wherever the money’s at, that’s where they’re going, so I don’t blame them. They’ve got just a few years to get it done and if they don’t get it done then, then they aren’t going to get it done.

If you ain’t trying to cheat a little, you ain’t likely to win much.

He was at Richmond from the time I was a little boy. He was one of the originals in PR, in working with the drivers and the newspapers. He was one of the first to realize you don’t just stick up a sign and say we’re going to have a race Sunday. He went out, dug up PR and really got the job done. Any time we ran at Richmond, the place was always full.

Macho does not prove mucho.

I’ve still got a twinkle in me.

I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself.

If there was no ladies, I wouldn’t wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.

Every kid has something they’re good at, that you hope they find and gravitate toward.

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I’m living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don’t enjoy being in the public eye.

Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn’t allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.

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

I don’t know if it was much of an interview. We just shot the breeze.

One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.

I love connecting with people, playing games, music and finding ways to help or give back to communities/organizations…Having my own talk show where I get to do all of these things is pretty much a dream job!

Possibly the whole creative whirlwind of any musician’s life is based on garnering and developing and absorbing more and more experience.

You want us as muses because you fear us as artists.

I’ve got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody’s looking.

[on acting] I just enjoyed it as soon as I started doing it. It fulfilled something in me, and I’m so lucky that I found it.