Stock Car Quotes

The 600 is survival. It's NASCAR's longest race.

I've always been an Earnhardt family fan.

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

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.

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.

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.

I love Daytona and Talladega. I'd like to think maybe I could quit one day running all the races and just run a few that I like.

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.

I'm a casual F1 racing fan. I'm probably more of a stock car, NASCAR guy.

This is a dream come true to race for 'The King' Richard Petty Motorsports, the iconic No. 43 and for all the fans and partners that have and continue to support this team.

I don't know anyone who's started more consecutive Daytona 500s than me.

There is no other way to start the season than to win the Daytona 500.

When you think about the NASCAR brand, it resonates everywhere. They have the No. 1 sports brand.

I’d love to have an opportunity to tie the greats in Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt Sr.

When I showed up to drive for Dale in '01 it was a brand new team.

I always like my chances at Daytona.

I was a young boy. A stock car guy used to live across the street from us. He'd work on his car, and both of my older brothers became gearheads.

I would like to run about 15 stock car races a year. That would be my goal.

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

The first win was racing my Late Model at Myrtle Beach. It was twin 50s. We'd usually run a 100-lap feature, but it rained the week before, so they split the next weekend in half and made twin 50s. And I won the first one.