Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

Every morning I wake up with new ideas.

I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life.

I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes.

I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn't my No. 1 priority.

I love horsepower.

I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.

I'm a terrible husband.

I've always been asked, 'What is my favorite car?' and I've always said 'The next one.'

I've got cattle on 4,000 acres about 100 miles east of Dallas, but I've also got another 65-acre ranch where I raise American miniature horses.

I've had a good run. I've built a lot of things that work and a lot of things that didn't work.

Porsche and BMW drivers are arrogant.

Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game.

The first time I walked by a crap table, I felt kind of funny.

What I wanted to do was build an automobile.

I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we'll be working against - but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don't do anything.

I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that's their ambition, and I don't know very many of them that are happy.