It's really not about what you have. It's about how you're able to enjoy life in general.
Kevin Harvick
When you have fast cars and bad luck, it's a lot easier to handle than having slow cars and bad luck.
Just in a professional world, sometimes a phone call is definitely more meaningful than a text.
I'm going to quit when I feel like I'm not having fun anymore or I'm not competitive.
We don't ever want to lose a deal. So we treat a $5,000 sponsor like a $5 million sponsor, both because it's the right thing to do and because we've grown a lot of our sponsors from thousands to millions.
Winning takes you to that next level of being a bigger star.
I like the challenges we face in the future. That motivates me.
If you can qualify on the pole or in the front, you have a better chance of getting five points for leading a lap or leading the most laps.
My favorite part of any military feature, aside from the people themselves, is how clean and organized everything is. I like things clean and organized, and they don't get any cleaner or more organized than they are in any branch of the military.
We've definitely been in a few positions where it's come down to the end of the race and we've been able to close the deal, and we've definitely been in position where we've lost a few.
You hear too many guys talk about retiring too soon.
Experience will always win in this sport. That experience helps with a lot of things, even in the race shop. You are going to have experience in certain scenarios where you can make those right decisions.
Being a good race car driver is one thing, but to take all the time commitments and all the pushing and pulling and learning when to say no - because you need to rest or focus on the things you need to do to make the car go fast - those are the hardest things to learn and the most distracting things to learn.
You want to see how many races you can win, you want to see how many laps you can lead.
I think, as competitors, you always wanted to try and gain an advantage, and you have that opportunity to go out and grab those bonus points and gain as many as you can throughout the year.
When we're outside of the racetrack and in our team meetings, you need to communicate with your teammates and do what's best for the company in order to give the people that work there the best opportunity to succeed and maximize the potential of their job.
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.
I want to thank everybody at Stewart-Haas Racing, everybody at Ford for just continuing to put the effort they put into these cars.
A lot of the kids we have coming up through our ranks now have been in stock cars since they were 12 or 13 years old. It's much different. I think you have to pick a path. If you want to race open-wheel cars and do those things, it's probably going to be carts and into an open-wheel series.
I have had window braces smashed in the front of my car, several times. They fail all the time in the front.
The fact of the matter is that I'm never going to be Dale Earnhardt Jr. or Chase Elliott. You're not going to have that connection, the hardcore roots with the fans.
I'm a pretty intense person at the racetrack, but when I'm not thinking about my race car or in the garage doing my job, I'm pretty laid back, and I like to be organized and do normal things.
We get paid a lot of money to do what we do, and there's a lot of people who are dependent upon that car running well and us getting everything out of it as a team. So I'm very, very loyal to my team and the company.
We have a great group of people and sponsors around us, and you don't want to send them out as outcasts because you have this newfound success and this new tool of things you can sell.
I'm a guy that likes to sit in the quiet and think about things, and sometimes it's way more relaxing to have dead silence.
If you follow the same path as everyone else you're just going to be like everyone else.
For some reason, the busier I am at the track, the better I tend to race. I think it's because I don't have to deal with all the distractions outside the car that can get me in trouble at times.
I love racing cars, and we have to have great competitors to make the diverse fan base have people to root for, and some people like calm, shy Ryan Blaney that knows a lot about the sport, or Chase Elliott, who's been around racing and has those deep ties to NASCAR and the southern roots of our sport. Those guys are all important.
It kind of sucks when you lose a dog; you don't realize how attached to them you are until they are gone.
The day that Chase Elliott wins his first race is gonna be one of the best moments in NASCAR racing because of the fact of how impactful it will be for all of us in NASCAR racing.
I had to decide if I wanted to race full time or be an architect. I decided I could always go back to school.
I purposefully try to go through days without picking my phone up, and that's hard to do because we're so dependent on it.
I mowed yards with my grandpa at $10 a pop for awhile. I painted numbers on curbs. I cleaned swimming pools. I usually did all of that over the summer, and then I'd continue to do the yard part during the year as I went to school.
People like things that change. They don't like stagnant things.
I'm just a normal person.
They could find something wrong with every car if they took it apart for a whole day at the R&D center.
I sometimes need to be smarter, but that's not going to change how I drive.
We have to take the good with the bad.
I played baseball when I was in junior high, but that's the last time I played baseball.
Dale Jr. has never gotten a fair shake from the start because, guess what? He's not his father. He was always supposed to have been someone else. The pressure he's under is unreal.
I like football, baseball, basketball, golf, racing.
The big things are the things that you don't expect.
I'm fortunate to have a solid fan base.
These regional series - we need to have them strong to feed drivers to the Truck series. Nothing against ARCA, but NASCAR needs to have their own series be their own streams.
I've been very fortunate to be part of the sport and be successful.
I don't ever leave my garage stall during practice. I don't want to know what other people are doing. I don't look at the scoreboard.
It's probably 10% luck and 45-45 on the driver and the car. If you have a bad car, you're done.
I grew up in a little bit of a broken home.
The night I won my first Late Model race was the night my mom moved everything out of the house... There was a lot of situations like that.
We can control how we run, and that's about it.
