Top 33 Daytona Quotes

I’ve got Pacman, Galaga, Galaxian, Daytona 500. Those are the games I grew up playing.

I have one really nice watch. It’s a white-face, stainless-steel Rolex Daytona. I wear it a lot. I got that in the middle of ‘The Office.’ All the guys in the writers’ room were like, ‘Let’s all get a nice watch.’ We were too busy to upgrade our lives in a big way, but we thought this was a nice symbolic gesture.

At worst, spring break in Daytona Beach feels feral – like everybody is trying to re-create scenes from the movie ‘The Hangover.’

There’s a tremendous number of the Daytona Prototypes.

I’m a Christian guy. I believe that we’re going to heaven, and I believe when Dale Jr. and I drove off from Turn 4 at Daytona, I think that Dale Sr. had a smile on his face.

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.

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.

I get to do the Dakar Rally. I get to do the Daytona 500. I get to do the Indy 500. I’m very fortunate to get to do these things.

The Daytona 500 is what it is because of the tradition and history of this great event. People have been coming out in February since 1950 to watch this great race. It would be hard to ever change that.

I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in the woods. Later, the murder was linked to a serial killer who was later caught and executed for his crimes.

When you’ve got the Daytona 500 out there at stake and everything riding on the line, guys go for it, and the guys that go for it are the ones that are either going to win or they’re going to wreck.

I’m definitely more one of the drivers who would want to do Daytona, Le Mans, and the Indy 500.

The Daytona 500 is a career-winning race. It defines careers for drivers, crew members, crew chiefs and race teams. It has that power.

I don’t go into these Daytona 500s expecting to win. I go into it hoping to win, but definitely not expecting because there’s just too many moving parts and pieces for you to guarantee your success.

I always like my chances at Daytona.

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

Well, my favorite memory of a president was in 1984. I was in the grandstands at Daytona, and maybe I was 20 years old. So just sort of down in Daytona, having a good time for the 500 – or for the 400 in July. And Air Force One lands on the back straightaway. It was President Reagan.

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.

I woke up this morning, and I still don’t believe I won the Daytona 500.

James Finch has always had pretty stout cars for the restrictor-plate races and I know we’ll be very competitive at Daytona.

I love Daytona and Talladega. I’d like to think maybe I could quit one day running all the races and just run a few that I like.

I grew up in Florida in different cities. I was born in Mississippi. My parents moved a lot, so I moved to Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, all through the South. But my family’s roots were from central Florida, like Daytona Beach area, so we ended up moving there.

Look at Pusha-T. He makes a certain type of rap music. ‘Daytona’ is that on the highest level.

I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about doing that as a profession, but I started checking things out and I found out there was a flight school down in Daytona Beach, called Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

The Daytona 500 is a big race, and Darlington is just as big of an event, and a lot of people get excited for it.

A lot of musicians put diamonds on things to show they had money. I on the other had felt that Daytona showed I had style and I didn’t need to be flashy.

All these tracks you have memories at, all of them, Daytona included.

The social scene in Daytona Beach was simple. The white cats surf, and the blacks play music.

I won the Daytona 500. I won these races twice. I knew I didn’t need anything cheating on my part.

I feel gifted for having the opportunity to compete in Daytona.

NASCAR and the Daytona 500 are about as American as you can get.

I went to a couple of events with my dad for sure, and I grew up in Daytona where the races ran twice a year. But I never thought – even into my twenties – that this was going to be a big enough career for me.

Daytona has some of the greatest fans in the world and many remember me from some of the things I’ve done in this wonderful country.