Richard Petty Race Quotations

He was at Richmond from the time I was a little boy. He was one of the originals in PR, in working with the drivers and the newspapers. He was one of the first to realize you don't just stick up a sign and say we're going to have a race Sunday. He went out, dug up PR and really got the job done. Any time we ran at Richmond, the place was always full.

A rivalry doesn't happen in one or two races or in one year. It happens over a period of time to really get a rivalry going. We race together three or four races and get to beating on each other, that's not a rivalry, that's just a happening. You do that four or fives years, that's a rivalry.

Two Sundays don't make a season. But if we keep it together, we are going to win a whole bunch of races this year.

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

At least when the race starts, he'll know where they're all at because they'll all be in front of him.

At least when the race starts he knows where they're all at, 'cause they're in front of him. Better to do it today than tomorrow.

Every race is a chapter. Those are two important races. Who knows what Sunday will bring?