Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows."

"Besides winning, [the most fun thing is] getting out there and mixing it up with friends; it's the competition."

In that first race [Indy 1982] I lapped A.J [Foyt] . . . I lapped Gordon [Johncock] and I passed my Dad -- it was like I lost something. It was the day I knew I was one of them I couldn't look at them that way ever again.

Every race I run in is in preparation for the Indianapolis 500. Indy is the most important thing in my life. It is what I live for.

"I don't want to get into anything that would only be half-way. If we're going to commit to it, then we're going to commit to it all the way."