Richard Petty Quotations

What's your take on the Jamie McMurray and Kurt Busch deals?

We won it a few times, but that was when we had more family members than anyone else, I guess. A lot has changed since then.

I quit driving, I'm not retired.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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