Motorsports Quotes

You can't take a vacation from speed. I probably could have taken more time off and not driven in all the different disciplines, but I wanted to drive, drive and drive.

This is like my dad's race team where we had one Legend car. If we wrecked it, we couldn't race the next week unless we had enough parts to put it back together again.

I get to do the Dakar Rally. I get to do the Daytona 500. I get to do the Indy 500. I'm very fortunate to get to do these things.

Toyota is doing a neat job coming in to the sport - no one ever thought that there would be a day when Toyota would participate in an American-made, American-born sport like Nascar but they're doing a fantastic job.

I am, after all, a NASCAR fan.

I've always wanted to race cars, ever since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have.

I'll watch a bit of Formula One, and motorcycle racing. I've always had an interest in all motorsports, and I still ride bikes.

I love racing and I've always enjoyed racing. I love to try and go back to the local short tracks and do those races. And sometimes I do.

As the son of a racing car designer and mechanical engineer, I was exposed to motorsports from day one.

The Daytona 500 is a career-winning race. It defines careers for drivers, crew members, crew chiefs and race teams. It has that power.

I like the competition that Nextel Cup gives us. The schedule is difficult. But this is something I want to do for sure.

I don't understand why everybody can't remember how exciting the Daytona 500 has been over the years when Richard Petty and David Pearson and Darrell Waltrip ran just the three of them racing for the win. Why do you have to have 40 cars in a pack to say it's exciting?

I've never seen a NASCAR race; I've seen an Indianapolis 500 race.

I've always been an Earnhardt family fan.

NASCAR fans are very knowledgeable and very passionate.

I bought my first dirt bike when I was 12, and I started racing motocross when I was 15 and started getting pretty successful. Then I started racing snowmobiles at 17 and decided I wanted to focus on that and see if I can make a career at it.

There's only eight cars that make the Daytona 500.

On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program.

I like road-course racing.

My favorite was Jeff Gordon. I just followed him growing up because I started watching racing when he came on the scene.

My whole life is about racing, and of course everybody wants to do the same with your son. Being a father and doing motor racing with him goes hand in hand.

NASCAR and the Daytona 500 are about as American as you can get.

There's no better feeling that celebrating in Victory Lane.

The Daytona 500 is a big race, and Darlington is just as big of an event, and a lot of people get excited for it.

We're going to do whatever it takes to bring that NASCAR style of racing on the track to full fruition. That's simply what we have to do.