Top 50 Kevin Harvick Quotes

If you make the schedule exciting and make the events exciting, that is what guarantees you the people to come back if they had a good time.

When you look at how the sports world is changing, you have to figure out how to become different than everyone else.

There’s no bigger thrill than beating the guy you’re not supposed to beat or winning a race you’re not supposed to win.

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.

How many times have you had a crappy Super Bowl, but everybody goes to the Super Bowl because it’s an event.

People don’t like the same thing. You have to keep their attention.

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.

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.

I think some of that comes with age, with life in general, to try to keep yourself as healthy as possible.

I like the challenges we face in the future. That motivates me.

One of my strengths over the years is to be open-minded.

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.

The big things are the things that you don’t expect.

I let people draw their own conclusions about my similarities to Dale Sr.

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.

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.

Sometimes you’ve got to keep your mouth shut.

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.

In my opinion, Jimmie Johnson should be our most popular guy because he’s won seven championships.

There’s a difference between a superstar and a megastar.

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.

I like competition. For me, it is fun.

They could find something wrong with every car if they took it apart for a whole day at the R&D center.

I just try to be myself. But I will tell you this: I will not back down to anyone.

I have had window braces smashed in the front of my car, several times. They fail all the time in the front.

I always like my chances at Daytona.

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.

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.

Winning makes everything better.

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.

It’s really not about what you have. It’s about how you’re able to enjoy life in general.

You always want to win.

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.

Racing’s my life.

We can control how we run, and that’s about it.

I definitely want to get more involved in making sure that West Coast racing is healthy and where it needs to be.

Just in a professional world, sometimes a phone call is definitely more meaningful than a text.

One thing I can’t stand is when people – not our team, but other people – don’t respond. Everybody can email, everybody can text… using an email auto-response is not the world we live in.

Even if you only have 30- or 40,000 people in the grandstands, if you put on a good event for TV and do the things that it takes to have a unique event, that is really what people want. They want unique things.

We have to take the good with the bad.

I think when you have kids, it definitely makes you look at things from a different perspective, but I think that the biggest thing it’s done is it’s made me look at things from a different perspective from a professional standpoint in how you analyze things and how you look at things and how you react to things.

I’m more comfortable inside the car than I am anywhere else.

It’s always interesting to see how other people relate to their jobs.

I’ve been a part of this before, where you think the racing gods are against you, then next thing you know, you can’t do anything wrong. You’re winning races and doing things you feel like you shouldn’t have done that particular day. It all comes full circle in this sport. It has a funny way of doing it.

That’s your goal every week: to put yourself in contention. There’s a lot of circumstances and a lot of things that have to play out for that to happen.

The officials in the garage do a great job.

When you have the most stable team in the garage from a financial standpoint and manufacturer standpoint, that attracts good people.

I don’t know why we have this flair for having dramatic finishes, but we’ve definitely had a few through the years.

People like things that change. They don’t like stagnant things.

If you follow the same path as everyone else you’re just going to be like everyone else.