Richard Petty famous quotes

03-26-2025

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

#Winning #Want #Losing
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.
-- Richard Petty

#Morning #Next #Lord
Never put a question mark where God puts a Period
-- Richard Petty

#Mark #Periods #Question Mark
We drove for the sheer fun of driving because there wasn't that much money to be made.
-- Richard Petty

#Fun #Racing #Driving
When I first started racing, my father said, "Win the race as slow as you can.
-- Richard Petty

#Father #Winning #Race
If you ain't trying to cheat a little, you ain't likely to win much.
-- Richard Petty

#Winning #Trying #Littles
You can only live on the past for so long, and we kind of stretched our luck on that. We think we're on the way back, but it's just a matter of how quickly things come together. Common sense tells you it's not going to happen overnight because we're trying to catch up.
-- Richard Petty

#Past #Thinking #Long
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.
-- Richard Petty

#Wall #Car #Daddy
If there are 10 people there, two or three are going to recognize you.
-- Richard Petty

#Two #People #Three
I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called.
-- Richard Petty

#Kings
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.
-- Richard Petty

#Two #People #Personality
I closed my eyes, held my breath and then everything went black.
-- Richard Petty

#Eye #Black
I didn't miss out on a family life because of racing. I had one because of it.
-- Richard Petty

#Missing #Racing #Family Life
Cats know, comin' out of four, they better be standin' on it, else they'll be standin' in it.
-- Richard Petty

#Cat #Four
I quit driving, I'm not retired.
-- Richard Petty

#Driving #Quitting #I Quit
There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile.
-- Richard Petty

#Racing #Doubt #Automobile
If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'
-- Richard Petty
Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.
-- Richard Petty

#Sticks #Tongue #Politically Correct

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