"Long live the elite rower's motto:'early to bed, early to rise, never meet the regular guys.'"

“I've met a handful of presidents, from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton to George Bush to Barack Obama.”

Source : "Jimmie Johnson Interview: Respect Is The Thing I Want The Most". Interview with Jeff Gluck, www.sbnation.com. September 14, 2011.

“Consider the biggest animals on the planet: elephants, and buffaloes, and giraffes. These are vegetarian animals. They grow to thousands of pounds of muscle and bone without ever eating cheeseburgers and pepperoni pizzas.”

“Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too.”

Source : "'John Walker's Blues' meets the boos". www.cnn.com. July 23, 2002.

“I remember that I auditioned with the scene where I pull the grandfather out of the coffin. I just loved it so much.”

“Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”

“I believe more and more that this business is about people. People, people. The idea is to make friends at the retail level, the warehouse level, let people see you exist, can form sentences and have an interest in something other than yourself.”

“In reading the biographies of very successful men and women, one theme frequently surfaces: such people have a strong bias for action. Those who achieve high levels of success in some areas of life tend to take a LOT more action than those who settle for average or below average results.”

“We don't need a flat tax, but a flattening tax, to truly level the playing field.”