Quotes from Kevin Harvick

I'm a guy that likes to sit in the quiet and think about things, and sometimes it's way more relaxing to have dead silence.

I let people draw their own conclusions about my similarities to Dale Sr.

I mowed yards with my grandpa at $10 a pop for awhile. I painted numbers on curbs. I cleaned swimming pools. I usually did all of that over the summer, and then I'd continue to do the yard part during the year as I went to school.

It's really not about what you have. It's about how you're able to enjoy life in general.

When you have fast cars and bad luck, it's a lot easier to handle than having slow cars and bad luck.

I've been on the side of it where you have bad luck and slow cars.

I sometimes need to be smarter, but that's not going to change how I drive.

I played baseball when I was in junior high, but that's the last time I played baseball.

These regional series - we need to have them strong to feed drivers to the Truck series. Nothing against ARCA, but NASCAR needs to have their own series be their own streams.

I'm fortunate to have a solid fan base.

Money and fame? I never had it, don't really know if I want it.

I'm one of those guys that gets bored with things pretty fast, so I've got to keep it mixed up.

You can beat a dead horse as much as you want, but it doesn't come back to life. And sometimes you just have to change things up to keep the excitement and enthusiasm in the sport.

I'm not the spring chicken anymore.

People like things that change. They don't like stagnant things.

I don't ever leave my garage stall during practice. I don't want to know what other people are doing. I don't look at the scoreboard.

When you have the most stable team in the garage from a financial standpoint and manufacturer standpoint, that attracts good people.

I think when you have kids, it definitely makes you look at things from a different perspective, but I think that the biggest thing it's done is it's made me look at things from a different perspective from a professional standpoint in how you analyze things and how you look at things and how you react to things.

Winning takes you to that next level of being a bigger star.

I'm just a normal person.

Dale Jr. has never gotten a fair shake from the start because, guess what? He's not his father. He was always supposed to have been someone else. The pressure he's under is unreal.

The officials in the garage do a great job.

One of my strengths over the years is to be open-minded.

There were some struggles throughout the year at RCR. In order to keep yourself relevant, you had to find a headline. In order to find a headline, you had to do something that wasn't right, like jump over a car or say something you shouldn't.