Richard Petty Quotes

#1. I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.

John Shelton Reed

#2. I quit driving, I'm not retired.

Richard Petty

#3. Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

Amos Oz

#4. You can only live on the past for so long, and we kind of stretched our luck on that. We think we're on the way back, but it's just a matter of how quickly things come together. Common sense tells you it's not going to happen overnight because we're trying to catch up.

Richard Petty

#5. Cats know, comin' out of four, they better be standin' on it, else they'll be standin' in it.

Richard Petty

#6. If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd.

Richard Petty

#7. You can work hard, do everything that you think is right, but one thing you'll never overcome in life is fate. You can't control fate.

Richard Petty

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

Richard Petty

#9. I really didn't care. I'd do something to somebody and walk in front of them the next day like it never happened. I had very very low value on my own life.

Bernard Hopkins

#10. 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.

Richard Petty

#11. Our fate lies
in the hands
of the things we love
and sometimes
the things we love
are the things
that lead us
to the fatal destruction
of ourselves.

Robert M. Drake

#12. Racing has become more show time; we've got to have something new to create interest in the sport.

Richard Petty

#13. Never put a question mark where God puts a Period

Richard Petty

#14. Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark? Or why the barons ganged up on Richard II?

Edward Abbey

#15. If any Englishman said he has never called a Chinaman a chink he is lying. There is nothing bad about doing that. It is like calling the British Brits, or the Irish Paddies.

Dave Whelan

#16. In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow

Richard Wagner

#17. When I first started racing, my father said, Win the race as slow as you can.

Richard Petty

#18. The more men you've had, the more I love you.

George Orwell

#19. There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile.

Richard Petty

#20. The majority merely disagreed with other people's proposals, and, as so often happens in these disasters, the best course always seemed the one for which it was now too late.

Tacitus

#21. I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called.

Richard Petty

#22. None of us is as smart as all of us!

David R. Johnson

#23. If there are 10 people there, two or three are going to recognize you.

Richard Petty

#24. 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.

Richard Petty

#25. Sexual energy is divided into three distinct types. First: the energy having to do with the reproduction of the species. Second: the energy having to do with the spheres of thought, feeling and will. Third: the energy that is found related with the world of pure Spirit.

Samael Aun Weor

#26. Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty.

Richard M. Nixon

#27. No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Richard Petty

#28. If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'

Richard Petty

#29. Like everyone else, I don't want it to get too far away from the racing because as time progresses, we're trying to get new fans and still keep the old fans and we've still got to have the racing.

Richard Petty

#30. Forgive me ... for my love -for ruining you with my love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#31. Isolating, shutting down, and feeling guilt about pain makes it linger so much longer. Reconnecting, trusting, and being open and honest is really the only cure. Reaching out and talking to loved ones and friends is a must.

Jaime Murray

#32. Perhaps jungle life, despite physical danger, was a relaxing one. Surely it was free of the petty grievances, the disparate values of society. It was simple, devoid of artifice and ulcer-burning pressures.

Richard Matheson

#33. I closed my eyes, held my breath and then everything went black.

Richard Petty

#34. Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

Alfred Day Hershey

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

Richard Petty

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

Richard Petty

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

Richard Petty

#38. The recommended practice is to stop for five minutes at half of the deepest depth to which you have been diving and to stop again at a depth of 15 to 20 feet (4.5 to 6.1 m) for five minutes before surfacing.

Dennis K. Graver

#39. It's not that George Bush doesn't care about black people, god made hurricanes, not people who can't swim.

Zach Braff

#40. If you ain't trying to cheat a little, you ain't likely to win much.

Richard Petty

#41. I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.

Mayim Bialik