Quotes from Kyle Larson

My parents have always told me to try and stay humble as you can, and I think that's been a big help to my career.

I've just got to remind myself that it's hard to express tone and sarcasm and stuff through text.

I have a lot of confidence in myself, but I'm nowhere near as good as Tony Stewart, Kyle Busch, Kasey Kahne. I think over time I hopefully can be.

If I really had a true racing hero, I would say it's Tony Stewart, who I've always believed to be the best race car driver ever.

We wreck a few times a year, we're not getting hit in the head as much as football players, but concussions still happen in our form of racing.

In sprint car wrecks, just slam your head against a table a couple times and that's probably what it feels like. You get whiplash, all that stuff.

People tell me all the time you have to be mentally tough to win the championship, and I feel like enough people hype it up to where you have to act different come playoff time. But I'm not a tough guy. So I don't know how to be tough. I don't know what I'm 'supposed' to be doing.

I feel like in the races I watched before I got to NASCAR, nobody ran like right next to the wall. And I feel like since I've gotten here, a lot more people do now. I don't know if it's the way the cars drive or the tracks age or what, but I feel like I've had a part in changing the style of NASCAR racing a little bit.

It's hard to diagnose head injuries in any sport, and nobody knows their own body as well as themselves.

I always like going to fancy Italian restaurants.

When I was a kid, Jeff Gordon was invincible and I probably thought he was going to race the rest of his life.

Treating others with respect matters.

Being labeled a racist has hurt the most, but I brought that on myself.

I would love to run the Indy 500 someday. But I would only want to do it if the right opportunity was out there and I was in a car I felt like was capable of winning with a team and crew that has a history of winning here at the Speedway.

I want to be known as a guy that was competitive in every type of race car he ever got in.

Everything about the compound there at Hendrick Motorsports just down the street is perfect. Everything down to the way they mow the lawn. It looks amazing.

I never had to really worry about anything and I guess I was naive.

I feel like Hendrick just plays games in a way with NASCAR. I feel like they always start the year off kind of bad to like show NASCAR that they're being nice and cooperating and following the rules and stuff, and then it gets a couple of months in, and then they start cheating and finding some speed.

It's definitely a great honor to be the first Asian-American to win a NASCAR Cup Series Championship. It's not something that I set out to accomplish in that way, but now that I have, I know that I hold a much bigger role in the Asian community.

Nashville has so many music fans and fans of music are also fans of NASCAR and just the atmosphere here throughout town gives you a good feel.

I always root for the underdog.

In the sprint cars, you have to be so aggressive for 30 or 40 laps.

It's been nice to hang out with my friends in the sprint car world just because a lot of drivers in the sprint car racing community are some of my best friends.

This sport is so tough so it's nice when you go run a sprint car and go win a race.