Quotes from Denny Hamlin

I think the reason I was successful in my rookie season is because I was having a lot of fun.

I've had shoulder issues.

I always have to work on my flexibility to help my back, and Pilates helps the most.

For a season, I would say driver is 40%, car/team is 40% and then 20% is luck when it comes to winning a championship.

If I'm going to win a championship, I need to run top-five every week. I don't need to win every week.

I'm very confident I'll win my championship before my career is over.

I like challenges, and Darlington is the biggest challenge on the circuit.

I like to make sure I eat as soon as the drivers meeting is over. Then I like to take at least a 15-minute nap or so before the race starts, just to kind of get refreshed. That's something I try to do every time.

Anytime you have adversity or something that you self-inflict on yourself, you typically always have a chip on your shoulder to make sure that you're not the weak link.

I'll win the Coca-Cola 600 and the Brickyard.

If anything during the playoffs, I try to golf more. I'll just do anything I can to be normal. I don't really designate any time differently or try to weed out distractions.

I'm just more the consistently top-five guy. That's pretty much been my M.O. for my whole career.

The communication between the driver, the spotter and the crew chief is very key. You can't have people talking at the same time, so it's like a choreographed radio call of a baseball game.

I've taken quite a few risks on the ski slopes. Like if I'm a green-level skier, I'm going on the blacks just because it's hard and a challenge. That's probably not the best idea.

The research center at VCU has really done a great job of welcoming us in and we've contributed a lot of money to them because they do a lot of the research for cystic fibrosis.

You think about someone's well-being or someone's health as obviously being way more important, than any sporting event you could win.

I've paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines for Tweets and whatnot. I express my opinion.

If I play a round of golf with a pro, it's with Bubba Watson.

I think that it's a benefit to have distractions because you don't overconsume yourself with what-ifs and you end up second-guessing yourself.

We try 100% every single week to do the best job we can, but we always seem to find 10 more percent when we're faced with adversity.

I'd say I'm moody, I'd say I'm temperamental. But within my certain group of friends and family, I'm very open and outgoing and joke around a lot.

Somebody needs to cut their profit margin and contribute to making our sport safer.

When I feel comfortable in the car... I can do just about anything I need to do to be a race winner.

I have a picture of Texas Motor Speedway with highlighted areas of the racetrack where there are no SAFER barriers - and it's an overwhelming amount of spots.