Quotes About Racing

For obstacle racing, you wanna be as light, lean, and fast as possible. So, if I lift a lot of weights, I'm gonna be a little bit heavier, which will make it harder for me to hold myself up.

I didn't think I was ever going to be a Cup driver. When I was a kid, before I started racing in the Xfinity Series, I thought that I was never going to get a chance, and then, if I did, I wasn't going to run well enough to maintain that opportunity and keep progressing.

I definitely want to get more involved in making sure that West Coast racing is healthy and where it needs to be.

If we get rid of greyhound racing it will mean job losses and fewer people coming to West Virginia.

In Formula 1 there is so much grip, you can attack the corner so hard and be so aggressive in corner entries, and that doesn't really work in IndyCar. You have to bring that back a bit and be more precise in the mid-corner to exit.

Obviously you can make a pretty good living these days as a crew member or a crew chief or as a driver. But the technology is expensive.

I guess if you're not going to win the championship, you're better off taking the opportunity to win a Brickyard or a Daytona 500 than you are to make the Chase and then fizzle out.

The Dodge Charger in the late '70s at Daytona, that looked like an awesome car.

There is no other way to start the season than to win the Daytona 500.

I don't know anyone who's started more consecutive Daytona 500s than me.

He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed.

Overtaking is one thing. That is an art. But defending as well. You should be able to defend your position.

I have never driven an IndyCar, but based on everything I've heard, the characteristics and how you drive them are 180 degrees different.

For me, I feel like I've always driven the same, it's just depending on what situation that I'm in, depending on what I want to do. So, I'll always race hard.

I think we should go back to the old style of the draw at the Derby.

The thing is athletes get more confidence the more they race, the more they are hitting personal targets - it just gives you confidence.

Racing is a great sport, but we need people to come along and see that for themselves. Maybe they're not used to going racing or haven't been before, but I think people get a taste for it; they do come back.

It's not hard to motivate myself because once you get a taste for winning races, you simply don't want to do anything else. You get a buzz from it. You want it every day. Only someone who has experienced winning can understand how good it feels.

When 'Michael Waltrip Racing' and 'competitive juices' are discussed, naturally the subject of jet fuel arises. I'm here to tell you that I can be competitive without jet fuel; that stuff tastes awful.

Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.

I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.

It's about making sure we're there at the end of races and we get the best possible finish we can. What comes with that is being able to have realistic expectations and not trying to do something more than what the car is capable of, so it's a team effort for sure.

In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I'd be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.

I've made a lot of friends over the years through racing, but we weren't necessarily teammates.