Quotes from Richard Petty

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.

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.

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

Never put a question mark where God puts a Period

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.

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.

Never put a question mark where God puts a period.

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

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

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.

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

I quit driving, I'm not retired.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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