00:01When you get out to that track, you sit down in that car.
00:05Whatever it is that's roiling around your head, it just goes right out the window.
00:14You could tell that this was a big, big thing in his life.
00:18He made the movie winning and kind of fallen in love with racing.
00:21He was 48 years old when he started.
00:24The only thing that I ever found any racing was an automobile.
00:27He wanted to be looked at as a driver, not as an Academy Award winner.
00:32He wasn't so much divided between the two.
00:35It was that film would come second to racing.
00:39He was terrible at first.
00:44The studios didn't want him doing that.
00:48I mean, they think, what is he doing in a race car? Is he crazy?
00:51Oh, Newman and Bowman have gone off!
00:53The only way that you're ever going to win a race is just to be right on the edge of
00:57it all the time.
00:59His whole career looked as though it was going to go down the drain because all he wanted to do
01:03was race.
01:05I think everybody wanted him to quit racing except him.
01:09They'll have to strap me down before they keep me out of these things.
01:12There was a tendency to write him off as an actor.
01:17It's very, very difficult with celebrities.
01:19They're used to being a winner.
01:21And in racing, you've got to pay your dues.
01:23You're always competing with yourself.
01:25You're trying to bring a little extra to your performance.
01:27I think he liked the camaraderie.
01:29The fellowship of that relationship with a fellow driver is nothing like it.
01:32It's not anything you can have in Hollywood at all.
01:37He was really a good driver.
01:40It's Newman's fourth national championship.
01:42Pressure to win grew as he did win and people expected him to win again.
01:48People didn't even think of him as being a movie star racer.
01:51He was just a racer.
01:52He does that classic red blooded American boy.
01:56Paul has a saying I'm sure you've heard where he says winning isn't everything.
01:59It's just all there is.
02:00You see it with the Oscars.
02:03People vote.
02:04They say him or her.
02:08In this, you either cross the finish line first and it's either him or her.
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