If you look up the definition of stand-up comedy, it's funny on purpose. A little bit of pressure there. It's basically acting. You're telling stories and acting them out for people. The more you make it seem real, really a person doing it, then it seems to me the better it works.

Michael Waltrip

I act like I'm always in a good mood when I'm not, but it's my job.

I would probably build somewhere between a half-mile and three-quarter-mile track. It would be sort of like Indianapolis Raceway Park. When I was a kid, that was my favorite track.

Michael Waltrip

Art Would Where

I just feel so confident when I get in my race car that I'm going to do good, I'm going to win, I'm going to outrun everybody.

Michael Waltrip

Good Car Win

You can only beat a guy down so far before he has a tendency to start listening to what you're saying.

Michael Waltrip

Art You Yin

I love my job. It doesn't feel like a job, and I don't look at it as work.

Michael Waltrip

Work Love T

There's a Bible verse that says if you believe, you will be in the presence of the Lord in the blink of an eye. And I know Dale was a believer, and that means that he saw his son and his friend going to win the Daytona 500, and he was in heaven all within the blink of an eye.

Michael Waltrip

You Within Wit

I built my team with Dale in mind. He lives with me. He's part of who I am because I just appreciated who he was and how he went about things. People worked on his cars at Dale Earnhardt Incorporated before I got there. When Dale would walk by you could just tell people were thinking, 'these are Dale Earnhardt's cars.'

Michael Waltrip

Work Car Art

Anybody can be replaced. I can be replaced.

Michael Waltrip

Replaced Replace Rep

The thing that warms my heart is people. I have just met so many kind folks that want to just pat you on the back and say, 'We love you.'

Michael Waltrip

War Love Art

This is racing. There is going to be twists and turns. You're going to be dealt setbacks.

Michael Waltrip

You Twists Twist

I was confident that I not only could win races, but I could win the championship.

Michael Waltrip

Win T Ship

Dale was just trying to get third. Maybe he was thinking that he could get a run on everyone coming out of Turn 4. But the race was over. Junior and I had pulled away, so there was no need to block. That always hurt me when people said he was blocking for me, because it almost felt like it was my fault that he died. But I don't think that anymore.

Michael Waltrip

Yin Ways Way

It's as much looking out your rear-view mirror as the windshield. You want to make sure you put your car in front of the right line. You're constantly looking behind you.

Michael Waltrip

Car Your You

People that know me know I take stuff personally.

Michael Waltrip

Take T Stuff

You can't take your win for granted. Your next win might be your last win or you might never get to your next win, so I can't imagine not being overcome with joy by winning and never taking winning for granted.

Michael Waltrip

Your You Wit

People are obviously capable of handling the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. But I don't know how many people have had to experience them within seconds of each other.

Michael Waltrip

Experience Within Wit

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

Michael Waltrip

Art Who Ton

I was always one who thought that if something is painful, you just ignore it and it will go away. That's not true.

Michael Waltrip

You Will Who

I like to tell my own story using my personality and my insight, the way I see things.

Michael Waltrip

Way Using Us

Talladega is one of the macho tracks on the circuit and when I was a kid, I remember everyone wanting to go watch this race because the cars go so fast on the circuit; there were so many great battles.

Michael Waltrip

Great Car Were

It takes a good car for anybody to be good, but it takes a good car and a special driver to achieve greatness.

Michael Waltrip

They say some people are born with the ability to play golf. I wasn't.

Michael Waltrip

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.

Michael Waltrip

When I showed up to drive for Dale in '01 it was a brand new team.

Michael Waltrip

I'm pretty comfortable in a car to know what I'm doing, and I'm exactly the opposite onstage.

Michael Waltrip

I know y'all have probably heard I lost a few races in a row before I won one, but I never gave up. Never believed I wasn't good enough.

Michael Waltrip

Some people might say I'm two different people, but I think it's more like seven or eight.

Michael Waltrip

When you've been ridiculed and talked about as much as I have over the course of my career, pressure doesn't exist.

Michael Waltrip

I love being outdoors.

Michael Waltrip

It's real important to me to do what I say I'm going to do.

Michael Waltrip

There are several races that anything can happen and Talladega is one of those places for sure.

Michael Waltrip

The computer systems that we have on our cars when we go test just blow my mind.

Michael Waltrip

I've never had anything given to me. I've never had anything easy. My whole career has been that way.

Michael Waltrip

Nobody had ever lost 462 races and then just won. But Dale Earnhardt Sr. had told me I had the ability, and that day, I knew I would.

Michael Waltrip

Whether you're Michael Waltrip or Jeff Gordon or Richard Petty, you can't be the Daytona 500 champion without it having an impact on people around you. When I say that, I mean the race fans. They want to congratulate you for winning the biggest race of the year. It has changed people's perception of me.

Michael Waltrip

It's my opinion tracks got too wide. You put 43 cars on the track, and if the turns are too wide like they are at some tracks, you sort of lose perspective of what's going on.

Michael Waltrip

Lying in bed, I determined that since I'm a Christian, I believe we all have our days - our days are numbered. I figured it was Dale's day to die, and I was the best person to win the race and be able to honor him in the victory.

Michael Waltrip

I'm a sensitive person.

Michael Waltrip

The chances of me getting into the Hall of Fame as a racer are slim to none. But as an owner I have a chance to do something special, mostly because I learned a lot of secrets from Dale.

Michael Waltrip

Everyone who has ever aspired to be a stock car driver wants to win the Daytona 500. If someone says that it's better to win somewhere else, then that tells me one thing for sure - they've never won at Daytona.

Michael Waltrip

I'm a Christian and I believe in angels and God.

Michael Waltrip

No matter what town we went to, if there was a comedian playing, I'd go watch.

Michael Waltrip

You have faith in who you are as a driver and stay strong when things go wrong.

Michael Waltrip

I've always loved comedy.

Michael Waltrip

If you look up the definition of stand-up comedy, it's funny on purpose. A little bit of pressure there. It's basically acting. You're telling stories and acting them out for people. The more you make it seem real, really a person doing it, then it seems to me the better it works.

Michael Waltrip

The racing team is the most important thing in the world to me. It's where all my eggs are fully in that basket. I go dance and do TV to try to make that world more important.

Michael Waltrip

You will rarely get introduced as the two-time Pocono champion. You will certainly be introduced as the two-time Daytona 500 champion.

Michael Waltrip

Anytime you're pushing the envelope as hard as you can to be successful at anything at life it's easy to go from hero to zero in a second.

Michael Waltrip

I do believe I'm not good enough to be a professional dancer. I believe that in my heart.

Michael Waltrip

I just was fortunate enough to be talented at what I was watching my brother do. It's great that it worked out that way; I might have been wasting a lot of time saying that's what I want to be, but when I got behind the wheel I had the ability.

Michael Waltrip