We'd like to say we're going to win races, but we have to be realistic. This is the highest level of motor sports in America. You can't play catch-up in less than four months.

The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a wide variety of job fields from which to embrace a career, without having to be a specialist in one particular discipline.

I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film.

Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.

I have a fear of water, believe it or not. To put a wire 12 feet over a swimming pool frightens me. I don't like water.

I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult.