Quotes from Bubba Wallace

Times get tough sometimes, you lose cool. At the end of the day it is one of the most demanding and grueling sports.

We are ambassadors. We are leaders of our own brands, and then in life things are thrown at you, you have to stand up for what's right. That brings on a whole new role. It's not on the front of the agenda that you see, but if you read the fine print it's part of becoming an athlete and the pedestal you get with that.

I was so young when I started that I didn't really understand all of it. We'd show up and have the slurs being thrown out there, but my parents always dealt with that. They just told me to go out there, do my best, and try to win. Go out there and race well and they'll shut right up.

I enjoy watching those reality shows.

NASCAR - everybody thinks redneck, Confederate flags, racists. And I hate it. I hate it because I know NASCAR is so much more.

I need to go out there and run my own race, and have fun with it.

From what I've learned I need to do, is let everything else go and focus on finishing the race and having fun.

For me, it's always been to be on your toes about everything no matter what you do - my mom and dad always stressed that to me.

Once we got to the race track, everybody called me Bubba - we created a brand around it. Now it's become a household name.

I've had my fair share of incidents with law enforcement, whether they're saying smart remarks, condescending remarks to downplay who I am and what I can afford... It's something that made me stronger on the back end of it, and learned from those instances.

We all bleed the same color. It hurts when we bleed.

It's short-track racing. You're going to get that and it's going to happen. I don't know why everybody thought it was the end of the world when wrecks were going to happen. Like I said, with close-quarter racing like that it's going to get heated.

I don't wreck people on purpose - unless they give me a legit reason, but it takes me a lot to do that.

From Richard Petty to Andy Murstein, everybody at RPM is standing behind me and believing in me on track and also following me through this journey off track and letting me find my way and find my voice in standing up for what's right.

When you sign up to become something, you're signing up to become something larger than yourself. Represent something more than yourself.

We want to be treated equally and not judged off our skin color.

I'll never be intimidated by somebody, and I will treat you will respect as long as I'm treated with respect.

Black lives matter just as much as White lives matter, just as much as Hispanic lives matter.

I just kind of go by the theory of, 'Don't knock it until you try it.'

Once we started racing, my dad had his own industrial cleaning business about twenty minutes from the house, so we kept our race cars there.

Our sport has always had somewhat of a racist label to it.

A typical off day for me, I'm hanging out at the house.

It's something we're trying to change and NASCAR is as a whole trying to bring in a younger fan base, a different-looking fan base, we're trying to change the whole demographic of the sport. Me going out to do that is something I'll take responsibility for.

I've seen too many comments, too many stories from a fan, or first-time fans that have come to a race in years past and the first thing they say is, 'I seen the Confederate flag flying, it made me feel uncomfortable.'