Bubba Wallace Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Bubba Wallace Quotes. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!

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Times get tough sometimes, you lose cool.
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I don’t wreck people on purpose – unless they give me a legit reason, but it takes me a lot to do that.
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It’s simple-minded people like that, the ones that are afraid of change, they use everything in their power to defend what they stand up for instead of trying to listen and understand what’s going on.
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I’ve done the Stratosphere stuff in Vegas, but I haven’t skydived or anything like that.
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It all relies on teamwork. We could be running fifth all day, and we come down pit road for the last stop and the pit crew messes up, then we all go down and not just them.
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I’ve already got 10,000 more eyes on me because I am of color and they’re going to see what I can do in the top series. That’s enough pressure in itself, so I don’t need to add extra pressure.
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The people that don’t want change, the ones that don’t see how removing Confederate flag creates so much more opportunities for our sport to grow – they don’t want our sport to grow.
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Times get tough sometimes, you lose cool. At the end of the day it is one of the most demanding and grueling sports.
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It’s actually one of the only things that I do that I don’t get frustrated over. Everything else I do – racing, golf, video games – those things I want to win at. With photography, I think the camera wins every time.
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I’ve had my fair share of incidents with law enforcement, whether they’re saying smart remarks, condescending remarks to downplay who I am and what I can afford… It’s something that made me stronger on the back end of it, and learned from those instances.
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I do laundry, but my bags from the last race will sit there until the very last minute that I have to do laundry again.
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I’m looking forward to it, to be able to represent the black culture… but I’m doing my best at managing it, keeping it behind me, and that’s the best thing I can do.
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We are much more than just drivers who drive a race car.
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I don’t really watch much TV. I’m usually into movies.
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I watch too many scary movies.
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From Richard Petty to Andy Murstein, everybody at RPM is standing behind me and believing in me on track and also following me through this journey off track and letting me find my way and find my voice in standing up for what’s right.
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I chase checkered flags.
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A typical off day for me, I’m hanging out at the house.
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It’s something we’re trying to change and NASCAR is as a whole trying to bring in a younger fan base, a different-looking fan base, we’re trying to change the whole demographic of the sport. Me going out to do that is something I’ll take responsibility for.
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I’ve always been a person that has said what’s on my mind and stand behind it with a lot of heart and passion.
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This is a team sport.
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It’s true, black lives do matter. It’s not that we’re saying no other lives matter.
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I am looked at as an African American guy because of the color of my skin. I am darker.
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I try to represent myself and my team the best that I can.
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That’s a goal of mine and the sport. To become more diverse and change the demographic, bring in a new face.
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Ever since being vocal in being a human being, I’ve been proud to kind of step away from Bubba Wallace the athlete and to step up as Bubba Wallace the human and not be so, ‘I don’t know If I can touch that;’ ‘I don’t know if I can say these types of things.’ I’m letting that guard down.
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The year 2020 will be one to forget for sure.
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There should be no individual that is uncomfortable showing up to our events to have a good time with their family that feels some type of way about something they have seen, an object they have seen flying.
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People are entitled to their own opinion to make them feel good, to make them sleep at night.
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Creating unity and compassion and understanding of each of our brothers and sisters is so powerful. We have to preach that to the ones that don’t want to listen and understand.
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The encounters I had were very few, but they were powerful. The negative encounters I’ve had with law enforcement were very few, but they stood out.
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I was so young when I started that I didn’t really understand all of it. We’d show up and have the slurs being thrown out there, but my parents always dealt with that. They just told me to go out there, do my best, and try to win. Go out there and race well and they’ll shut right up.
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For me, it’s always been to be on your toes about everything no matter what you do – my mom and dad always stressed that to me.
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We have a lot of guys from different backgrounds in pit crews and even in the front offices of NASCAR and race teams.
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I enjoy watching those reality shows.
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There’s no need for me to go out there and try to set the world on fire, try to win races and put myself in a tough spot, not be able to capitalize on it. If the opportunity presents itself, yeah, we’ll jump on it. There’s no need for me to force a hole, end up tearing up a racecar.
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No one should feel uncomfortable when they come to a NASCAR race, so it starts with Confederate flags. Get them out of here. They have no place for them.
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No matter what faces you in life, always look up to God, and he will guide the way. You just have to walk that path very stern, and very proud.
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You try to be the best you can and sometimes it ain’t damn good enough.
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I’ve never had any issues with racism or racist people at the track for as long as I’ve been racing in NASCAR. All of that stuff that has happened to my face took place when I was coming up. And a lot of what I get now on social media is 13- and 14-year-old kids just trying to act tough. Well, I’ll call them out.
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It takes a lot to get me really excited.
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It’s like Richard Petty always said, ‘Racing isn’t the job. That’s where we get away from our job.’ That’s where we go out and have fun and get away from the madness. No one can bother you in there. There’s no phones, no interviews – it’s just you, driving.
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I’m African-American. There are more eyes on me than anybody. They’re going to take the negative before the positive.
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When you sign up to become something, you’re signing up to become something larger than yourself. Represent something more than yourself.
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Everybody’s equal. Everybody should deserve the same opportunity, the same challenge, the same whatever.
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From what I’ve learned I need to do, is let everything else go and focus on finishing the race and having fun.
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I wouldn’t want to be the guy who went out and won a championship in a horrible year but never made a comment on the issues that we are dealing with in our society.
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Black lives matter just as much as White lives matter, just as much as Hispanic lives matter.
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I feel for everybody that goes through it because depression is real, and it doesn’t take much to put you in that state of mind to where you think everybody’s against you, you’re up against the world and that’s not true.
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It’s short-track racing. You’re going to get that and it’s going to happen. I don’t know why everybody thought it was the end of the world when wrecks were going to happen. Like I said, with close-quarter racing like that it’s going to get heated.
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Our voices carry so much more weight than Joe Schmo from down the street.
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I believe in what Richard Petty Motorsports is doing and their desire to win races.
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I have all of my firesuits and helmets, and my parents collect all the newspaper articles and pictures and stuff like that.
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We have that platform to tell something and that voice to tell people we have got to stop and change our ways. That’s just how I think about it.
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We all bleed the same color. It hurts when we bleed.
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I’m just a race car driver.
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I used to go out there and think I’ve got to do this to help better the sport – I’ve got to go out there and run top five and try to win a race. Now I just go out there and do my best, and hopefully it settles it.
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We’re all equal. We were all made the same.
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I want to be a champion, and win races as much as I can and elevate my platforms and become an icon in the sport. It’s going to take a lot of hard work and determination from my camp and for myself to get to where we need to be. I’m excited about the journey.
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We want to be treated equally and not judged off our skin color.
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This sport is changing.
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Once we got to the race track, everybody called me Bubba – we created a brand around it. Now it’s become a household name.
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For me, I just want to be a role model, put a positive impact on the kids that are watching the sport, that want to be a part of the sport, and leave a good everlasting impact on the sport, continue my legacy down the road.
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My mother said, ‘Did you ever believe you would be an activist?’ I said, ‘No, not really.’ But I just felt in my heart that I needed to step up and be a leader in the forefront.
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Our sport has always had somewhat of a racist label to it.
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I need to go out there and run my own race, and have fun with it.
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