Quotes By Richard Petty

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.

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

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

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

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

I quit driving, I'm not retired.

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.

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.