20 Quotes by Al Unser

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.

Deep down, I do still think about driving, but you know that your reflexes and everything are just not the same, ... Once you've reached a certain level of racing, you know when you start fading. I can tell that I've faded.

This place shows what we have done. How it started. How it all happened. I think what you see here will bring to life what we have accomplished in auto racing.

That is a heck of a racetrack and I know all the drivers are looking forward to coming out there. I think the people of Northern California are really going to enjoy the show.

They have report cards, and letters they wrote to each other when they were little. Various ladies in the Unser family have done a good job of organizing the family tree. The amount of stuff they have -- boxes and boxes and boxes of photographs and family stuff from when the brothers were just little boys, all of the houses, buildings and passenger cars they owned -- it's just astonishing.

I knew what he wanted to do, and he showed me the plans, but when he brought me to the building and showed me around, I didn't see how it was possible. I didn't think there was enough room but he said, 'We're going to gut all these offices.' I figured even if he tore everything out it wouldn't be very big, so I'm just amazed at how spacious all these rooms are.

I'm very lucky to be in a sport that I can do this. We can drive the car, we can drive it hard, and so we need to get in there and get some points in order to win this championship and put the Number One back on that Marlboro car. We're physically able to do it, so as long as we're physically able to do it at the at the level we need to then we're going to do it.

I never had very good luck here, ... In an IROC car I crashed, blew a tire in an Indy car, and a Formula 5000 car I ran here I thought I won the race. It was in the rain and the records got washed away, so they took it away from me.

I felt very comfortable with the way things went off and ended up,