“I have been out of the game for a while, and I am just starting to get sense to my brain. The outside healed fine, but what I deal with now is a hidden thing and people don't really see it, but I live with it every day. I look fine. When I come to an event like this, the people are great, but it's upsetting to have them come up to me and say why aren't you racing. My mind is just not what it used to be.”
“I have struggled. If you do racing all of your life, and then all of a sudden it ends, what do you do? Do you go back to school, do you start a business? All we know how to do is race. That's all I've done since my dad put me in a go-kart at 4.”
“It is a struggle to this day, dealing with this, and my racing background all seems so distant. I am having a hard time letting racing go. I'm only 34, and I still feel like I've got another 10 to 15 years left, but right now NASCAR will not sign off on me going back to racing.”
“I have a lot of ideals, I may even go back to school, ... The biggest thing people don't realize is that racing was part of my life since I was 2, and then it all stopped. I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do the rest of my life.”
“I think he has done fine. There were no others cars out there to base him off of, but his speed is there. He is a racer. These [race] cars all have four wheels and a gas pedal. He just needs to gain experience. He will learn a lot more when he comes back here to California to race.”
“It's just been two-and-a-half years, and in the racing business you have to move on, ... You obviously can't sit back and say you're going to wait for someone for three years. Joe's the driver and I am giving them space because it's his job now. It's not my car because I can't do it. It's not really something that I'm proud of.”
