75 Quotes by Kyle Petty

The truth is, the longer it goes, the harder it gets.

We lost one child and we gained ten thousand children.

Family is the most important thing. Family starts with your wife and your kids.

Speed is relative. Does it feel fast going 70 miles per hour down an eight lane highway? No, probably not, but I bet it does if you are going down some single lane dirt road. It's the same in a race car. It depends on the track.

You had life by the tail and didn't know it.

Why did I take up racing? I was too lazy to work and too chicken to steal

You know, that's a hard question. You can't say the sport expanded too quickly, because it didn't expand at all for 45 years. Was Japan a stretch for us, running an exhibition race there? Yeah, I think it was. Was Mexico a stretch? Hmmm ...

The driver that you have to sell on safety shouldn't be driving.

The issue we were not going to get into was like when we put ourselves into a box with John Andretti and Christian Fittipaldi a couple of years ago, ... We wanted to keep three teams but we didn't have a sponsor. We went out and hired a driver but we couldn't find a sponsor for the team ... but had to pay a driver for a couple of years that we didn't have a car for. We're not going to put ourselves in that position again.