Quotes About Nostalgia

I would have loved to race from 1970 to 1980.

When I was a kid, I used to play a game called 'Grand Prix Two.' Interlagos was always the first race of the season on that, and I never really got much past the second race. I would always restart the season, so I always seemed to be doing Interlagos - it was a real pain!

I like Hockenheim because I've raced there quite a few times. In fact, one of my first single seater races was there in Formula Renault 1.6 in 2003.

Me and my dad, we'd go to the dirt bike races every year. I mean we'd go probably too much every year. And he would make me listen to all country music.

When I go to small races in Denmark, it's what I imagined what F1 would have been like back in the 60s and 70s. After the 70s it became a bit different. But 50s and 60s at least, people were only there because they love it.

I don't remember anything about '93. I remember going to some Copper World Classic races. I probably had to have been 4 or 5 around then. I probably mostly remember it because of my mom's pictures that she takes all the time.

I don't watch my Rio races back. I'll look at my London 2012 races a lot. But not Rio.

The Beach Boys were my favorite. I use to listen to their hits over and over, especially 'In My Room' and 'Don't Worry Baby.' There's something really sad about 'Don't Worry Baby.' Even though it's just a California song about racing cars, the melody is really sad. There's melancholy in it.

I like getting together with friends and just making fun of ourselves and stupid things I've done or I've seen them do - and good races we've had together. When I go home to California, I always talk to my go-kart friends about when we were racing at Red Bluff or Cycleland.

I grew up wearing free racing T-shirts.

If I had one wish, I would say to be born in the '30s and be young in the '50s and '60s. It hurts my racing heart when I see things so far from what it was back then. I envy those guys so much.

It's far nicer to congregate around a card table than a television. It takes me back to my childhood, when we'd play family card games like Racing Demon.

Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island.

But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers.

There's no longevity in me telling old stories on the radio.

There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.

Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio.

Radio was my friend after 'Jack & Diane' and 'Hurts So Good.'

My first transistor radio was the heart of my gadget love today. It fit in my hand and brought me a world of music 24 / 7.

I was born in a radio world, and I got so much from it.

I had this little handheld transistor radio that I used to sleep next to.

I did radio back in the era when we did radio drama.

The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.

I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.