Top 70 Kyle Larson Quotes

I hate breakfast, so I’ve got to find somethings that I like to eat in the morning and just make sure I drink enough fluids.

It’s cool just to be competitive each week really.

Jalapeno sausage, I love that.

I like getting together with friends and just making fun of ourselves and stupid things I’ve done or I’ve seen them do – and good races we’ve had together. When I go home to California, I always talk to my go-kart friends about when we were racing at Red Bluff or Cycleland.

Everything about the compound there at Hendrick Motorsports just down the street is perfect. Everything down to the way they mow the lawn. It looks amazing.

I was having the time of my life racing, sprint cars and midgets and then dirt late models. I was doing stuff that I always wanted to do – maybe didn’t think I’d be doing it at 28 years old – but I did accept it.

This is something you always dream about, being in this position to win a championship.

To win a championship is crazy.

My phone rang and I got to have a meeting with Rick Hendrick, and my life changed ever since.

To get back-to-back wins in the Cup Series is something I’ve always dreamed of doing, and to get it done feels great.

If I really had a true racing hero, I would say it’s Tony Stewart, who I’ve always believed to be the best race car driver ever.

NASCAR is where I always wanted to be and I do believe I proved I can compete at the Cup level.

I feel like in the races I watched before I got to NASCAR, nobody ran like right next to the wall. And I feel like since I’ve gotten here, a lot more people do now. I don’t know if it’s the way the cars drive or the tracks age or what, but I feel like I’ve had a part in changing the style of NASCAR racing a little bit.

Even when we’ve been winning, we still look at things that we could have done better, whether it be on the racetrack, on pit road, just little things to maximize our day.

Nashville has so many music fans and fans of music are also fans of NASCAR and just the atmosphere here throughout town gives you a good feel.

I always root for the underdog.

I’ve always wanted to go to an F1 race.

Well, I never worked a real job.

I feel like I don’t hit the radio button ever – or not enough, even on the good stuff. I do shout some stuff when I’m mad at myself, but I’m pretty good about not hitting the radio button.

I don’t want to lose who I am, but at the same time I need to not get myself in trouble sometimes.

The goal for all of us drivers is to get a championship, but I’ve always wanted to be known as one of – if not the greatest – all-around race car drivers ever.

You have to grow up pretty quick when you get to the Cup series.

Accountability matters.

I make fun of my dad all the time for crying, and I’m worse than he is.

Each race, I feel like I’m a little more patient.

Now that I’m at Hendrick, it makes me appreciate my years I had at Ganassi even more. We did way more and accomplished way more than we probably should have compared to what resources Hendrick has.

I don’t know if any more people recognize me, now that I’m a champion. I went to Disneyland and only had a handful of people recognized me, which was cool.

It’s definitely a great honor to be the first Asian-American to win a NASCAR Cup Series Championship. It’s not something that I set out to accomplish in that way, but now that I have, I know that I hold a much bigger role in the Asian community.

Hendrick Motorsports has great, great people there and I’m very lucky to be a part of that team and surrounded by amazing people.

All I can do is continue to improve myself and let my actions show who I truly am.

I don’t think I’m as good as what a lot of people say I am.

It’s hard to diagnose head injuries in any sport, and nobody knows their own body as well as themselves.

I don’t watch a whole lot of TV, but since the time I was 10 or 11, I’ve watched MTV’s ‘The Challenge.’

I said a racist word and I can fully understand why people would label me a racist.

I think in 2012, I ran 28 races in June, so I probably ran 12 or 13 in a row, at least.

You don’t forget how to win.

I try to race everybody with respect.

I hope I’m the next big thing. We’ll just have to wait and see, I guess. I’m sure there are a lot of other ‘next big things’ coming up. I hope I can stand out as that guy.

People tell me all the time you have to be mentally tough to win the championship, and I feel like enough people hype it up to where you have to act different come playoff time. But I’m not a tough guy. So I don’t know how to be tough. I don’t know what I’m ‘supposed’ to be doing.

I would love to run the Indy 500 someday. But I would only want to do it if the right opportunity was out there and I was in a car I felt like was capable of winning with a team and crew that has a history of winning here at the Speedway.

When I think of a rivalry, I think of two drivers who butt heads.

Just blocking noise out and doing something you love and enjoying it and having fun with it. It’s kind of made my mentality in me staying calmer much better.

I guess I can’t pinpoint like one thing that’s a weakness, but if we can continue to get every area better, I mean, we’ll be really hard to beat.

I think you can always get every area of your game better.

You’ve got to take care of yourself as you get older, definitely going to try and do a better job of that.

I haven’t really done a whole lot of daring stuff. Like when I go snowboarding, I don’t go in the terrain park.

I didn’t have a full understanding that there are people struggling with different things on a daily basis.

I want to be known as a guy that was competitive in every type of race car he ever got in.

I have all the respect in the world for Matt Kenseth.

I think fans appreciate seeing me race a lot.

I think the definition of ‘the greatest racecar driver’ is different to everybody.

I like country, and I like some classic rock, too.

There’s a handful of racing things I’ve done where it was like, ‘Man, that was really stupid and embarrassing.’ But I don’t mind talking about them.

In sprint car wrecks, just slam your head against a table a couple times and that’s probably what it feels like. You get whiplash, all that stuff.

We wreck a few times a year, we’re not getting hit in the head as much as football players, but concussions still happen in our form of racing.

I never really realized how privileged I was in the way I grew up.

I haven’t gotten overly confident or cocky. I think staying level and humble has helped me through the bad times and the good times.

I know deep down I’m not a racist.

I think people like that I speak my mind, but I think I can speak my mind in a better way sometimes and choose my words a little bit more wisely.

I won a sprint-car championship in 2010.

To be around a person who is that well-respected is just going to teach me even more about how to be better.

I like being a guy that’s bridging the gap between all different forms of racing, especially now that I’m in the Dirt Late Model stuff, too. I think that’s helped bridge the gap between sprint car fans and Late Models.

Treating others with respect matters.

I seem to struggle when it comes to racing on road courses.

Apologizing for your mistakes matters.

I just want to be known as a real racer.

All the stuff I learned off the track about what’s going on in the world made me a bigger and better person.

I always like going to fancy Italian restaurants.

I love racing with the World of Outlaws.

This sport is so tough so it’s nice when you go run a sprint car and go win a race.