“In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year.”

“Parking is a nightmare for me... I still have sensors on my car that help me park.”

“Well, it is so difficult right now when you look out on the road and how fast people go and the more and more cars you see out there, for teenagers, you'd think a kid that literally, a few years before, was sitting back in a car seat in the back seat is now behind the wheel.”

“So there is going to be that balance of understanding how to get the best out of the car that day, whether it's 15th or even if I have a shot at a top 10, protecting that car so we can bring it back when we have to.”

“There are races and then there are races. And without a doubt, the Indy 500 is the race that I've always wanted to attend. And now, to be driving the Corvette Pace Car... this is going to be unbelievable.”

“I hate to play the I-live-in-the-country card, but it really takes all of the 'pack the kids into the car and run from here to there' out of the equation.”

“Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.”

“You have to visualize a second or two ahead of your car what line you are taking, what you are going to do, before you get there because it comes too fast.”

“I feel comfortable around every driver out there and each driver is in charge of their own car, but you feel very secure racing the competition out there.”

“When you walk the track and you see a corner and realise you were going round it at 160mph, you wonder who could be so stupid to take a corner at that speed. But in the car, you don't even think about that.”

“Dear motorist on the information superhighway. I'm sorry I do not have a car.”

“I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my dogs down to the cafe to get my tea, and then perhaps going to a bookstore and sitting and reading, then walking to the beach.”

“I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.”

“What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.”

“So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better.”

“Competition among insurers would bring down the cost of health care insurance, just as it brings down the cost of car or homeowners insurance.”

“I've never been to a race car race before.”

“I remember when I started off, my first car was a Kia Spectra. With a spoiler kit and some rims.”

“It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.”

“My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.”

“The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?”