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I think I’m just quiet, and I don’t talk a whole lot.
Listen… it’s one versus 38. You win 10% of the time, you’re a Hall of Famer.
I like to make sure I eat as soon as the drivers meeting is over. Then I like to take at least a 15-minute nap or so before the race starts, just to kind of get refreshed. That’s something I try to do every time.
You normally can capitalize when your opponent makes mistakes, but at Talladega, you can’t.
I like to get wild sometimes with my shoes, but I don’t venture too far out with shoe colors.
Richmond is just the ideal racetrack.
I think the reason I was successful in my rookie season is because I was having a lot of fun.
I never liked reading books or reading anything – I’m a pictures guy.
There’s no way I could put on running shoes and go out for a 5-mile run, but put a ball in my hand and I’ll go for days. Or until I break something.
Luck is just a stupid word in racing.
If you’re relying on winning for happiness, you’re going to be a miserable individual.
Somebody needs to cut their profit margin and contribute to making our sport safer.
If I’m going to win a championship, I need to run top-five every week. I don’t need to win every week.
Mistakes happen in racing.
Even in the middle of races, when things don’t go well, I don’t let it bother me nearly as much as I used to in the past.
I’d say most qualifying sessions in the Chase are about the only times I get nervous, because qualifying is so important. A lot of times, when you’re fast in practice, you have to live back up to those expectations in actual qualifying.
Communication is key to having a good team.
There’s no right way to do it or wrong way to do it – that’s why so many drivers have been caught in wrecks at Talladega.
I’m different than the normal NASCAR driver, I listen to hip-hop music.
The research center at VCU has really done a great job of welcoming us in and we’ve contributed a lot of money to them because they do a lot of the research for cystic fibrosis.
Danica Patrick, even if she was not super successful results-wise, did a lot for our sport and its visibility. That was an element that fans really did appreciate, and it brought some awareness and different eyes to out sport.
I’m very confident I’ll win my championship before my career is over.
I’m the most underrated driver.
Championships, I get it, it’s very, very important. But I also know that my competitors will probably say that I’m one of the toughest competitors and toughest guys to beat. That’s all I really care about, is having the respect of them.
I think my reputation among peers is probably different than my reputation among fans. My peers know me pretty well and so it’s fairly accurate. I think I’m respected among my peers.
Every time the races would come to Richmond, my mom would have a sheet of where each driver was doing appearances. And we’d go on a Thursday night road trip to each stop to get each driver’s autograph.
It’s hard to find the motivation to perform at 100 percent when you’re trying to find yourself, trying to figure out what feel you need, really when you feel like you’re not racing for anything.
We try to do our best to give honest answers and sometimes those aren’t always the best thing.
We try 100% every single week to do the best job we can, but we always seem to find 10 more percent when we’re faced with adversity.
Obviously there’s a big financial commitment when it comes to starting a Cup team.
Outside of the track, I love sports.
I have a picture of Texas Motor Speedway with highlighted areas of the racetrack where there are no SAFER barriers – and it’s an overwhelming amount of spots.
For a season, I would say driver is 40%, car/team is 40% and then 20% is luck when it comes to winning a championship.
Obviously the fuel mapping pace is a lot of what happens with your strategy, whether you choose to go full rich or not.
I think there’s always debris around the track, without a doubt you can call anything debris.
We’re way underpaid as race car drivers.
I’m a competitor.
I know that’s what Goodyear wants and what NASCAR wants and what the drivers want as far as safety is concerned.
It’s easy to be optimistic when your car is fast.
I’ve always been an introvert.
Anytime you slow the speeds down, racing will always be better.
I just constantly judge myself based off my performance. When performance isn’t good, I let it bring everything down.
I think that sometimes you just have off years. That’s just part of major sports. You have off years, and it happens.
As a Virginian, I am proud of Dominion and SunEnergy1 for bringing utility scale solar to the state.
I’ve paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines for Tweets and whatnot. I express my opinion.