John C. Reilly Quotes

There are some people who watch NASCAR for the highly skilled driving - but most people watch it for the crashes.

I wish Michael Schumacher would come try NASCAR. That'd be cool.

I would love to do a one-off race somewhere - NASCAR would be awesome.

I love coming to America to race. Maybe that's because I'm a big fan of NASCAR as well.

I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners.

I realize this is blasphemy, but a few weeks ago I tried to watch a NASCAR race being run at Talladega. I lasted about five minutes before terminal boredom overtook me. It appeared to be nothing more than a high-speed freeway commute--a mob of luridly painted, identical lumps of metal loping at 180 mph around the banking, fender to fender, nose to tail. Knowing the scenario would surely devolve into a multicar demolition derby that would thrill the goobers in the grandstands, I turned off the set to later learn that this time it was Jimmie Johnson who triggered the eight-car melee.

In this country, the most popular form of car racing is the huge multibillion dollar industry that's called stock car racing. That's what NASCAR is. That's what the SC stands for in the middle of NASCAR, Stock cars.

Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.

I was happy to ski and play a lot of ice hockey. But I've come back because I was - and am - a racing driver. This is what I do.

I don't think that American drivers going to NASCAR are taking the easy way out because as I said, the racing is amazing; it's just that it's easier to adapt to what you grow up with. American drivers grow up with NASCAR, they know NASCAR, and that's where they want to go.

Indy car racing is much more aggressive.

James Finch is exactly what I'm looking for, as far as getting back into the race car to have fun.

NASCAR, there's nothing wrong with it, it's very competitive, but the specs are very tight on tolerances.

I have a passion for racing, for competing and for fighting on the track.

Formula One was just cool. I loved racing, all types of racing, but from a young age, Formula One was the noise and everything, and that's what I was drawn to. I already knew when I was younger, the coolest guys are in F1... not that NASCAR drivers aren't cool, but that was always what I had in my head!

Growing up, I was always a big fan of Jeff Gordon.

I hear a lot of people who say they enjoy watching the road course races over the ovals.

I've enjoyed coming to Talladega since 2008 when I was in the ARCA Series.

Not as closely as some of the most ardent fans, but I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners.

F1 is exciting, its values are attractive and it could be an even better family sport.

I cant really imagine life without Formula One.

It was reported in the paper that President Bush received a 'warm reception' from the Daytona 500 drivers. Well sure, the drivers had never met anyone who was sponsored by more oil companies than they were.

I'm a frustrated driver. I would love to be out on the track instead of them. I look at them with envy.

I have spent--or wasted--my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing and bull fighting as the only true sports. The rest, he sniffed, are merely games.

NASCAR is Freaky Fast, just like Jimmy John's.