"Listening is the key to total concentration. You listen as the character would listen, closing the door on everything else. Then you are ready to respond."

“It's easy to forget when you're an elite athlete that everyone else gets nervous as well. Even the best people in the world, at whatever they do, they're still nervous”

“Malice blunts the point of wit.”

“I think faith is the one common denominator between everything that goes on at the race track - a faith in Christ.”

Source : "A conversation with NASCAR analyst and former driver Kyle Petty (Part 2)". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. August 2011.

“Unfortunately complaining is one thing Eeyores are not afraid to do. They grudgingly carry their thimbles to the Fountain of Life, then mumble and grumble that they weren't given enough.”

“I've always loved to sing in Spanish. To me, it's just my culture. It's what I am; I'm Latina.”

“I am pretty sick with myself! It seemed a pretty good idea at the time. Around the time I turned 30, I started to feel very creative, more creative than I had been before which is good and I like that.”

“No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.”

Source : Edward Teller (1981). “The Pursuit of Simplicity”, Pepperdine Press

“I don't like being mediocre. I won't be.”