64 Quotes by Richard Petty

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

We ran a whole lot with him. I don't remember him ever causing any trouble, running over anybody or beating on anybody's head as far as Cup racing. I guess they'll remember him as a happy-go-lucky guy. That was my perspective of him.