When I was racing, I had learned that you can't set stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I'd heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name, but a week later they couldn't remember who I was. You're a hero today and a bum tomorrow - hero to zero, I sometimes say.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

By the time we've made it, we've had it.

The excitement of automobile racing did not compare with what I knew must come with aeroplane fighting in France.

Long practise in driving a racing car at a hundred miles an hour or so gives first-class training in control and judging distances at high speed and helps tremendously in getting motor sense, which is rather the feel of your engine than the sound of it, a thing you get through your bones and nerves rather than simply your ears.

If today you don't have time for those who gave all their time for you yesterday then tomorrow they will not have time to give to you who has no time today