I was about to walk on stage at the Kansas Speedway - I was playing a NASCAR race - and I said to Scooter Carusoe, who was standing side stage, 'I want to write a song called 'Wanna Be That Song.' Then I put my earphones back in and walked right out on stage.

Brett Eldredge

The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.

All those people who go to NASCAR and sing country & western songs and live in Tennessee, they totally ignore me, they don't come to my shows, I just don't exist for them and they don't exist for me.

Al Stewart

Car Who Western

Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day.

Alex Berenson

Technology Sports Car

Americans are very patriotic and they want someone to support. In order to entice more fans, and to allow F1 to compete with Nascar and IndyCar, there needs to be an American driver.

Alexander Rossi

Pet Car Wit

We have an online clothing boutique called Pink Candy Boutique that we manage in the midst of all of this, and trying to bring in different types of sponsors into NASCAR.

Amber Cope

Car Age Yin

I always felt my role was like the pit crew in a NASCAR race, and President Obama was Dale Jr.- he's driving, and my job is to change the tires and get him back on the road.

Austan Goolsbee

Change Car Ways

People always talk about my heel/face turns. One of the jokes in America is I've had more turns than NASCAR.

Big Show

Car Ways Way

I've done drag races. I've done Long Beach Grand Prix stuff. I've done NASCAR stuff. Just about anything carwise under the sun, I've done. Whether it be driving schools or racing schools, I've had a passion for it for a long time.

Bill Goldberg

Time Car Wise

I was about to walk on stage at the Kansas Speedway - I was playing a NASCAR race - and I said to Scooter Carusoe, who was standing side stage, 'I want to write a song called 'Wanna Be That Song.' Then I put my earphones back in and walked right out on stage.

Brett Eldredge

Car Age Yin

I am, after all, a NASCAR fan.

Brianna Keilar

Car T Scar

No one should feel uncomfortable when they come to a NASCAR race.

Bubba Wallace

Car Uncomfortable UN

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.

Bubba Wallace

Change Car Younger

No one should feel uncomfortable when they come to a NASCAR race, so it starts with Confederate flags. Get them out of here. They have no place for them.

Bubba Wallace

Car Art Wit

We have a lot of guys from different backgrounds in pit crews and even in the front offices of NASCAR and race teams.

Bubba Wallace

Car UN Teams

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

Bubba Wallace

Car Very Use

I've never had any issues with racism or racist people at the track for as long as I've been racing in NASCAR. All of that stuff that has happened to my face took place when I was coming up. And a lot of what I get now on social media is 13- and 14-year-old kids just trying to act tough. Well, I'll call them out.

Bubba Wallace

Car Yin Year

I'm from Florida, and my family somehow is really into country music. We're all southern in a way: My grandpa hunts, my uncle's, like, a redneck, and we're all NASCAR fans.

Cassadee Pope

Music Family Car

Unlike other sports, which are largely determined by individual athletic ability or team strength, NASCAR requires its competitors to cooperate in order to win.

Charles Duhigg

Strength Sports Pet

The cooperation of NASCAR - or any other system, it turns out - persists only when everyone believes he has the opportunity to win.

Charles Duhigg

Car Win Very

I've never seen a NASCAR race; I've seen an Indianapolis 500 race.

Cheech Marin

Car Seen See

Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?

Chris Martin

I wish Michael Schumacher would come try NASCAR. That'd be cool.

Dale Earnhardt Jr.

I want to continue to be a part of the sport, and not just as an owner in the Nascar Xfinity Series. I want to be a valuable asset to the growth of the sport and continue to help raise the bar and raise the awareness of the sport and promote the sport as much as I can.

Dale Earnhardt Jr.

I love stock-car racing and NASCAR. I kind of take offense to anybody who has any cross words about it. It's kind of like your brother. You can talk all the crap you want about him, but you won't let anyone else do it.

Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Since I started in Nascar, popularity has definitely gone up. I've become more attractive and helpful to companies that are looking for spokespersons. So from that perspective, things are going really well.

Danica Patrick

I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I'm enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I've truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time.

Danica Patrick

Formula One was just cool. I loved racing, all types of racing, but from a young age, Formula One was the noise and everything, and that's what I was drawn to. I already knew when I was younger, the coolest guys are in F1... not that NASCAR drivers aren't cool, but that was always what I had in my head!

Daniel Ricciardo

I love coming to America to race. Maybe that's because I'm a big fan of NASCAR as well.

Daniel Ricciardo

I loved a lot of motorsports, but as far as the ovals go, I was more into NASCAR.

Daniel Ricciardo

I would love to do a one-off race somewhere - NASCAR would be awesome.

Daniel Ricciardo

Bobsledding is like sprinting with NASCAR. You get to push these 400-pound sleds as fast as you can down a hill and hop in. How could you not enjoy that?

Elana Meyers

You don't drive a NASCAR on the street, no matter how fun it might be, just like you don't need an AR-15 to protect yourself when walking home at night. No one does.

Emma Gonzalez

Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous.

Gary Ross

The feeling I got from rallycross was a little bit more of the NASCAR aspect of it; it's a family of races where racing is a passion, and it's not the politics that come with it.

Jacques Villeneuve

I don't think that American drivers going to NASCAR are taking the easy way out because as I said, the racing is amazing; it's just that it's easier to adapt to what you grow up with. American drivers grow up with NASCAR, they know NASCAR, and that's where they want to go.

Jacques Villeneuve

Winning the Indy 500 in 1995 and the Formula 1 championship in 1997 are very special moments for me, and the people in NASCAR show me respect for what I've achieved so far in my career.

Jacques Villeneuve

We're comic book fans; we're huge NASCAR fans.

Janet Evanovich

In NASCAR, you don't have to be as physically strong as in some other forms of racing. You've just got to be able to endure the heat and endurance of it.

Jeff Gordon

To be clear, I'm not opposed to apps; I just want them to be geared to my lifestyle. I don't need a virtual NASCAR racing app, but I'd certainly appreciate one that stopped my husband from plowing into the lawnmower every time he pulls into the garage.

Jen Lancaster

Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.

Jesse Ventura

NASCAR stepped up their safety concepts, and I think the drivers feel NASCAR is doing everything that can be done. So we are a little behind NASCAR in that respect. Someone in NASCAR realized there were certain things that could be done to make it safer. The same thing has to happen in football.

Jim Brown

I'm a fan of NASCAR, in a certain kind of way.

Jim Brown

NASCAR fans are very knowledgeable and very passionate.

Jimmie Johnson

NASCAR is Freaky Fast, just like Jimmy John's.

Jimmy John Liautaud

There have always been a lot of critics of competitive eating. You can be a critic of anything. It's easy to be a critic. You can say negative things about golf, the amount of water wasted on golf courses. Or NASCAR. There are wastes in everything.

Joey Chestnut

I play golf once in awhile. I certainly love to train. I'm also a big fan of NASCAR and Japanimation.

John Cena

There are some people who watch NASCAR for the highly skilled driving - but most people watch it for the crashes.

John Oliver

You know, I think in Europe NASCAR is not regarded as high as it should.

Juan Pablo Montoya

In L.A., I was meeting people who were all actors. My mind started to open up to what acting was. I didn't realize that Brad Pitt was a real person. I didn't think he was a robot or a machine, but I thought you were just born into acting - that it's a family tree, kind of like NASCAR. No one can just say, 'Hey, I'm going to be a NASCAR driver.'

Kellan Lutz

For me, I believe that Dale Jr. has had a big part in kind of stunting the growth of NASCAR because he's got these legions of fans and this huge outreach of being able to reach different places that none of us have the possibility to reach, but he's won nine races in 10 years at Hendrick Motorsports and hasn't been able to reach outside of that.

Kevin Harvick