Richard Petty Quotes

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• No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.
• Cats know, comin' out of four, they better be standin' on it, else they'll be standin' in it.
• There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile.
• If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'
• 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…
• If you ain't trying to cheat a little, you ain't likely to win much.
• Never put a question mark where God puts a Period
• We drove for the sheer fun of driving because there wasn't that much money to be made.
• I quit driving, I'm not retired.
• Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.
• I didn't miss out on a family life because of racing. I had one because of it.
• I closed my eyes, held my breath and then everything went black.
• 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…
• I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called.
• If there are 10 people there, two or three are going to recognize you.
• 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…
• 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…
• I don't know if it was much of an interview. We just shot the breeze.

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