Dan Wheldon Quotes

Chase Elliott winning is better for our sport.

I just love the American spirit of racing. It feels just great to get involved with that.

The only thing that's changed is the competitiveness of the series. It's only become harder to win in our series as the years have gone by. Competition breeds good things, and that's what's happened here.

I want to win a championship and to win the Indy 500 makes me want it so much more.

I love racing and I love doing well.

Indy makes the race driver. You become famous when you come here.

Racing is what I love, so it's pretty simple. I want to keep doing it and keep winning.

There's nothing quite like being part of a NASCAR race weekend, and that always will hold true.

I've been fortunate enough that in every form of motor sports in which I've competed, we've won.

You don't really get it from NASCAR that they want you to be the bad guy or the good guy. They'll kind of joke around with you and be like, 'Hey, that was really good this past weekend. You did a great job for us. Ratings were up.'

I'd like to do a full season of IndyCar if I was going to do it I think. But whether I'll get a chance to do that, I don't know.

For me I'm a NASCAR driver, and I want to be able to win NASCAR championships.

Nothing compares to the Indianapolis 500.

My message tonight is a simple one - the journey is getting exciting and this great state is on the move.

If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.

I've learned that you can never predict what will happen to a film. You can never predict if people will love it, if they'll hate it. It's an act of ego if you're hoping for everyone to love the film and tell you how great you are.

I want to be up front racing.

If I weren't skateboarding, I'd love to race cars. I like anything that's fast and active.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

I certainly hope to be a great publisher, and if people want to love me, too, that's even better.

Every time you go for more competition, some people don’t like it, but that’s the way it is. We believe it is better for the people.

If I'd won every single race and got pole everywhere, that would just be boring. It would suck. Where's the fun in that?

What I found is that experience in the World Series made me connect more with the fans.

When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation: 'What is he going to do?'

I love running good because it meets expectations, whether it's the fans' or my own. And I know that they come to be entertained: they pull for a particular driver to be entertained by that driver's success and that driver's personality, and they relate to that individual.