Richard Petty

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.

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.

If you keep running, you’ll get something.

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

Two Sundays don’t make a season. But if we keep it together, we are going to win a whole bunch of races this year.

You haven’t been around here long, have you.

Success is dependent upon the glands – sweat glands.

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

It takes no compromise to give people their rights … it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give them freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.

I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.

Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

When it comes to money, the only skill most people know is to work hard.

I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don’t misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day

Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And the best people give you memories.

Remember this: Nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy. Following your convictions means you must be willing to face criticism from those who lack the same courage to do what is right.