Richard Petty

You can work hard, do everything that you think is right, but one thing you'll never overcome in life is fate. You…

— Richard Petty

I don't know if it was much of an interview. We just shot the breeze.

— Richard Petty

Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton…

— Richard Petty

We drove for the sheer fun of driving because there wasn't that much money to be made.

— Richard Petty

Racing has become more show time; we've got to have something new to create interest in the sport.

— Richard Petty

I didn't miss out on a family life because of racing. I had one because of it.

— Richard Petty

If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'

— Richard Petty

There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second…

— Richard Petty

I closed my eyes, held my breath and then everything went black.

— Richard Petty

Cats know, comin' out of four, they better be standin' on it, else they'll be standin' in it.

— Richard Petty

I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called.

— Richard Petty

If you ain't trying to cheat a little, you ain't likely to win much.

— Richard Petty

Never put a question mark where God puts a Period

— Richard Petty

Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.

— Richard Petty

When I first started racing, my father said, "Win the race as slow as you can.

— Richard Petty

The good Lord doesn't tell you what His plan is, so all you can do is get up in the morning and…

— Richard Petty

I quit driving, I'm not retired.

— Richard Petty

Like everyone else, I don't want it to get too far away from the racing because as time progresses, we're trying to…

— Richard Petty

You can only live on the past for so long, and we kind of stretched our luck on that. We think we're…

— Richard Petty

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.…

— Richard Petty

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

— Richard Petty

If there are 10 people there, two or three are going to recognize you.

— Richard Petty