Dan Wheldon quote: "In England, if you win the championship, that enables you to run the #1 the following year, and you do it because it somewhat takes the value of winning the championship away if you're not going to use the #1, ... That's how it's perceived certainly with the people I know in Europe. My intention would be to run it if I'm allowed. Certainly that's what I'm going to push for."

I get bored. We seem to have been having a little bit more time off this winter than last winter. I&...
DAN WHELDON

Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, ...
DAN WHELDON

But, no, I don't think there will be any kind of problem as far as setting up to be competitive,...
DAN WHELDON

I think I've explained earlier on in the year that I kind of underestimated how important experi...
DAN WHELDON

I haven't seen it this busy since I've been an IndyCar driver. So I think that's a great...
DAN WHELDON

I think you're certainly going to see much closer racing. But, no, these are very good teams in ...
DAN WHELDON

But I think primarily, it's the fans that make this race.
DAN WHELDON

The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would re...
DAN WHELDON

The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each ot...
DAN WHELDON

But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my Indy...
DAN WHELDON

I think Jenson somewhat screwed me up there,
DAN WHELDON

It's large coming back here to drive as a champion although I was at the Speedway as a spectator for...
DAN WHELDON

Well, you know, she was something different. But I don't begrudge her anything. I can look back at w...
DAN WHELDON

The St. Pete race was very, very good from that standpoint. Certainly, living there you can feel the...
DAN WHELDON

I'm disappointed that we weren't quicker, to be honest. The Target car is really good on the long ru...
DAN WHELDON

I think this championship means a great deal to Kim, ... I came in relatively inexperienced with jus...
DAN WHELDON

We had an aggressive setup and were very quick in traffic. Once underway, the car was very, very goo...
DAN WHELDON

It's just practice, it doesn't matter, ... You can feel brilliant, but if you don't perform tomorrow...
DAN WHELDON

It's difficult in this series, ... To have won six is a very proud moment for me. To win six races i...
DAN WHELDON

I wasn't pissed. I had just realized a dream of 10 years.
DAN WHELDON

can contend for points.
DAN WHELDON

I'm not going to get too greedy. I won the one I wanted to win. If I don't win any more races, but w...
DAN WHELDON

The one thing I do disagree with the IRL is the fact that they are pushing Danica solely. I think th...
DAN WHELDON

When you think Danica grabbed the headlines, you wait until he starts. She'll be jealous of him.
DAN WHELDON

The one thing I do disagree on is the fact that they are pushing Danica solely; that's a big mistake...
DAN WHELDON

I must say my primary goal coming into the season was to win the Indianapolis 500,
DAN WHELDON

Really, I won the Indianapolis 500.
DAN WHELDON

Obviously, Wrigley Field is similar to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in that it has that same myst...
DAN WHELDON

I was kind of surprised (because) I was under the impression they were going to do it with younger k...
DAN WHELDON

I didn't expect the race to go like that, and I didn't think I'd forget to push the pit lane speed b...
DAN WHELDON

My goal coming into this season was to win the Indy 500. When I achieved that, I had to adjust my mi...
DAN WHELDON

I've had probably fifteen approaches from different teams.
DAN WHELDON

My primary goal coming into the season was to win the Indianapolis 500,
DAN WHELDON

To join the list of names that have won championships and the Indy 500 in the same season would be p...
DAN WHELDON

To join the list of names that have won championships and the Indy 500 in the same season is pretty ...
DAN WHELDON

This has been a dream come true for me. The best drivers in the world and the best teams in the worl...
DAN WHELDON

It wasn't as good a throw as the one I did at Shea Stadium; it was a little high, ... This was more ...
DAN WHELDON

The superspeedways, with the cars we have at Andretti Green Racing, you can get to the front pretty ...
DAN WHELDON

Now when we get to Watkins Glen, that's going to be the slowest lap in history. I'm going to tell th...
DAN WHELDON

I'll definitely be in the IndyCar Series, but Michael [Andretti] has got to keep paying me some more...
DAN WHELDON

That's not true. But you're on the right track.
DAN WHELDON

I achieved a lot at Andretti Green Racing,
DAN WHELDON

If I owned Sports Illustrated, you've got 33 drivers in the Indianapolis 500, and one's female and h...
DAN WHELDON

Dario is certainly going to be very, very strong on the road courses as Tony will. I've certainly go...
DAN WHELDON

I think California is going to be a really good race because obviously the championship has been dec...
DAN WHELDON

The nicest thing is that I'm going to be able to sleep now,
DAN WHELDON

I anticipate a really good race because, even though the championship is decided in my favor, second...
DAN WHELDON

To tell you the truth, I'm surprised Honda paid so much to get Jenson out of his Williams deal becau...
DAN WHELDON

It is their (the management company's) job to be looking into all of the options for my future and m...
DAN WHELDON

It was much better than the one at Wrigley Field. My best one was still the first one at Shea Stadiu...
DAN WHELDON

To win both in the same year I think is an unbelievable achievement. I thought I would be able to do...
DAN WHELDON

I thought I could do it sometime in my career, but certainly not this soon.
DAN WHELDON

I had a Sonoma race where I was disappointed in the result, ... I wanted to make amends for that. Th...
DAN WHELDON

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
DAN QUAYLE

My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put you...
DAN GABLE

I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You ...
DAN MARINO

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
DAN QUAYLE

Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so...
DAN RATHER

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has chang...
DAN RATHER

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We ar...
DAN QUAYLE

We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.
DAN GABLE

When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people ...
DAN PINK

My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island'...
DAN SHECHTMAN

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be ...
DAN QUAYLE

Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
DAN KAMINSKY

I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by t...
DAN JENKINS

The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing m...
DAN JENKINS

Vijay Singh won a playoff in 2004 at Whistling Straits after a final-round 76, which was the highest...
DAN JENKINS

Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.
DAN PHILLIPS

The greatly anticipated 2009 Masters was like going to a Broadway hit and finding out that the star,...
DAN JENKINS

I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.
DAN QUINN

I think I've interviewed probably 1,500 people in my 24-year business career.
DAN GILBERT

I cannot emphasize just how dangerous it is cycling in the city. Especially now. Even though it is a...
DAN HILL

When I'm not running, I cycle about 30 miles a day. I use the biking as cross training. I'm ...
DAN HILL

I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I do...
DAN HILL

When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listen...
DAN HILL

Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of ...
DAN HILL

The tricky thing about songwriting is that, more often than not, what you consider to be your best w...
DAN HILL

My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
DAN HILL

One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew ...
DAN HILL

I did have one bad accident up north near Deerhurst. I was driving back in the winter on these snowy...
DAN HILL

When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Fra...
DAN HILL

With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want hi...
DAN HILL

I got the big BMW X5, and I didn't like it. It was just too big, and I didn't feel comfortab...
DAN HILL

In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our we...
DAN HILL

Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kan...
DAN HILL

When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop s...
DAN HILL

Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress i...
DAN HILL

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.
DAN HILL

Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a hou...
DAN HILL

If we don't invest now in so-called priority neighbourhoods with music classes, athletic facilit...
DAN HILL

At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen i...
DAN HILL

To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by...
DAN HILL

I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing h...
DAN HILL

I was wired to be intense. I don't think that's ever going to change.
DAN HILL

I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.
DAN HICKS

I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.
DAN HICKS

I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: t...
DAN HICKS

There've been periods where I had to convince the audience or win them over.
DAN HICKS

About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises t...
DAN HICKS

There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to ...
DAN HICKS

I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labe...
DAN HICKS

I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'...
DAN HICKS

My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, an...
DAN HICKS

Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stag...
DAN HICKS

There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the wor...
DAN HICKS

And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I'm not stuck in a time war...
DAN HICKS

It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?
DAN HICKS

When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we ...
DAN HAWKINS

We've had a number 1 album in the UK and that was a really big thing for me. So now all we'v...
DAN HAWKINS

We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.
DAN HAWKINS

We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We&...
DAN HAWKINS

We still haven't played Madison Square Garden. That's a benchmark. Something will have gone ...
DAN HAWKINS

There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs la...
DAN HAWKINS

The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set ...
DAN HAWKINS

My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played ...
DAN HAWKINS

In a strange kind of way I know were really popular and probably the biggest band in the country at ...
DAN HAWKINS

I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It ...
DAN HAWKINS

I can't wait until we get to the stage where we don't have to explain anymore.
DAN HAWKINS

I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the expos...
DAN HAWKINS

As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypass...
DAN HAWKINS

After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
DAN HAWKINS

When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!
DAN HAWKINS

You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really ...
DAN HAWKINS

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
DAN HAWKINS

Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.
DAN HAWKINS

I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd don...
DAN HAWKINS

The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And vie...
DAN HARMON

Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels ...
DAN HARMON

My passion for 'Star Trek' is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franch...
DAN HARMON

I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of...
DAN HARMON

TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.
DAN HARMON

The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people...
DAN HARMON

Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're i...
DAN HARMON

When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It wa...
DAN HARMON

I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our lo...
DAN HARMON

If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist ...
DAN HARMON

People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi ...
DAN HARMON

I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories w...
DAN HARMON

Maybe I am just a jerk.
DAN HARMON

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.
DAN HARMON

I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I'v...
DAN HARMON

Eight o'clock is hard no matter what network you're on because people have to make a decisio...
DAN HARMON

Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing ...
DAN HARMON

There are lots of emotions that go with the Fourth of July.
DAN HARMON

I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.
DAN HARMON

I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critic...
DAN HARMON

I really like performing for people.
DAN HARMON

The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to...
DAN GLICKMAN

I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with ...
DAN GLICKMAN

The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and ...
DAN GLICKMAN

Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.
DAN GLICKMAN

Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our i...
DAN GLICKMAN

The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting so...
DAN GLICKMAN

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultiv...
DAN GLICKMAN

Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.
DAN GLICKMAN

If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect int...
DAN GLICKMAN

I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do i...
DAN GLICKMAN

Has Werner Herzog ever said anything that wasn't true? What a brilliant fountain of wisdom. Ever...
DAN GILROY

I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films wh...
DAN GILROY

Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world ...
DAN GILROY

'To Die For,' with Nicole Kidman, is great - her desire to be a part of news, how she uses n...
DAN GILROY

I had heard about the nightcrawling world, and I'm very aware that there are tens of millions of...
DAN GILROY

I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the moun...
DAN GILROY

When I'm directing, I noticed I'm not using my subconscious at all. I'm literally using ...
DAN GILROY

We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the f...
DAN GILROY

Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole...
DAN GILROY

News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen,...
DAN GILROY

I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael M...
DAN GILROY

I moved to L.A. and watched a lot of local television news, and I started to see the burn logos up o...
DAN GILROY

All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just ...
DAN GILROY

A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.
DAN GILROY

I spend most of my time in a room alone where eight hours go by, and I have no sense of time. I work...
DAN GILROY

Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But...
DAN GILROY

There are a lot of sociopaths running around who are probably our friends, if not us, and we don'...
DAN GILROY

The friends we have, these are choices that - unlike family, which we have no choice in, and I love ...
DAN GILROY

The real reason why people are going with digital is that it's extraordinarily mobile, and it...
DAN GILROY

Coming out of the '60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make fil...
DAN GILROY

I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or ...
DAN GILROY

I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with g...
DAN GILROY

A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who un...
DAN GILROY

In Los Angeles, you drive around, and you're coming back from a club or something, and all of a ...
DAN GILROY

The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain...
DAN GILROY

I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.
DAN GILBERT

The Midwest has, I think, incredibly hardworking people. You know they're going to be successful...
DAN GILBERT

We like scalable companies that we think we can grow - because of our expertise, operational is cons...
DAN GILBERT

One of our things is that money follows; it does not lead. So we want people that are fired up and p...
DAN GILBERT

The good news is that the ownership team and the rest of the hard-working, loyal, and driven staff o...
DAN GILBERT

I believe in our players, our coaching staff, and our entire franchise.
DAN GILBERT

Danny Ferry did a very good job when he was here and put the franchise up to a certain level, as did...
DAN GILBERT

A lot of the problems in the mortgage world, people said, were because our competitors were evil. Bu...
DAN GILBERT

I don't think we'd be the business that we are today if we were spread out in the suburban a...
DAN GILBERT

A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not jus...
DAN GILBERT

StockX's live marketplace will harness the Internet's natural ability to facilitate a better...
DAN GILBERT

From LeBron's standpoint, if a guy like Kyrie walks away - that creates doubt. But Kyrie committ...
DAN GILBERT

First thing I said to him was, 'LeBron, you know this is true. We had five good years and one ba...
DAN GILBERT

If the Big Bang is true, that means everything that came out of it, all of the particles, all of us,...
DAN GILBERT

Urban renewal always happens as a symphony of events, and part of the symphony is innovative, optimi...
DAN GILBERT

When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can ...
DAN GILBERT

When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.
DAN GILBERT

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