Quotes from Chase Elliott

The points format rewards you for having wins throughout the playoffs.

Kelley Blue Book is raising awareness for distracted driving and trying to grow that awareness for people to make our roads safer. The biggest issue is people texting and being on their phone while driving, but it goes further than that. The safety and the awareness is so important.

All you can dream for is opportunity, and I've been very fortunate to have that over the years. That's all thanks to some great people.

I drive quite a bit. I always drive myself to the airport prior to a race.

In racing you're not going to win every week, and we understand that.

Racing is something I've always wanted to do, so it's my dream come true.

You still need a good balance of what we do away from racing, and I feel like school, for me, has been that balance.

Just taking any kind of information you can gather, listening to the differences, the way they have gone about racing over the years, whatever they are willing to share with you it's important to hear those differing opinions and try to balance them out.

I think NASCAR and racing have been around for a long time. I certainly enjoy it, and there's a lot of connects to people. People drive to work every day, and there's a lot of genuine connection there. If people are interested in seeing that, building into that, I'm proud of what I'm a part of.

When I'm dead and gone and my dad is dead and gone, he and I will share a championship with the last name Elliott forever. I don't think it gets any cooler than that.

Good friends can have tough conversations.

I don't remember getting to see my dad race a lot until later in his career. I remember being at the track a lot. I still see a lot of pictures of myself around my dad at the track as a little kid. The racing I've known him more for is during his time racing with Ray Evernham. The rest of it was before I was ever around.

The whole sport, I feel like for years has done a great job trying to recognize the heroes amongst the country.

I'm not one to guarantee things in my life.

You have to take whatever situation is thrown at you and make the best decision at the time.

There are certain people you listen to who might be a tick better than someone else.

For me, you want to be recognized as someone who is real and shoots people straight.

I reference playgrounds a lot because I was always playing on them when I was little.

I know things can go south a heck of a lot faster than they can go good for you.

If you sit in a box all the time and don't do anything fun and don't live life, you're probably not going to do yourself any good. I refuse to be that way.

Talladega is always an exciting place, a great track to host a large number of fans.

I do not like tomatoes.

I don't usually socialize a ton with other people when I'm at the racetrack.

There are tons of races I'd love to do over.