NASCAR Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best NASCAR Quotes from famous authors such as Robby Gordon, Tim Allen, Michael Chiklis, Mario Andretti, Brian France. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!

1
We haven’t made money in NASCAR in a long time.
Robby Gordon
2
In the last three years of racing I’ve met as many women fans as men fans, and in NASCAR it’s the same thing. My wife loves cars, but the difference is she doesn’t have 20 years of understanding the background of them. She basically drives them and uses her gut feelings as to which is best.
Tim Allen
3
Prior to ‘The Shield,’ basic cable was just a wasteland of reruns and NASCAR. When we came along, I think there was a collective, ‘Hey, if they can do that, why can’t we?’ from the basic-cable networks of the world. We ended up being the cornerstone for a network, and a great one.
Michael Chiklis
4
In NASCAR, you can do a lot of banging around and get pretty serious and even get yourself upside down. All of those things can happen – and then you give an interview two seconds later.
Mario Andretti
5
Our challenge is this sport needs to be more diverse throughout its makeup of stakeholders, participants, and fans. We’re doing a number of things from a multicultural standpoint on and off the track to achieve that. Over time, that’s going to be a big opportunity for NASCAR.
Brian France
6
I think NASCAR and racing have been around for a long time. I certainly enjoy it, and there’s a lot of connects to people. People drive to work every day, and there’s a lot of genuine connection there. If people are interested in seeing that, building into that, I’m proud of what I’m a part of.
Chase Elliott
7
These regional series – we need to have them strong to feed drivers to the Truck series. Nothing against ARCA, but NASCAR needs to have their own series be their own streams.
Kevin Harvick
8
Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.
Mario Andretti
9
I’ve loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father.
Queen Latifah
10
I think NASCAR racing comes down… to going for those last-lap passes, making those risky moves. That’s what makes drivers unique.
Hailie Deegan
11
I am, after all, a NASCAR fan.
Brianna Keilar
12
I think NASCAR’s coming to Canada now so it’ll take on a whole new relevance. Be afraid.
Samantha Bee
13
Unlike other sports, which are largely determined by individual athletic ability or team strength, NASCAR requires its competitors to cooperate in order to win.
Charles Duhigg
14
I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I’m enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I’ve truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time.
Danica Patrick
15
I’m from West Virginia. If you didn’t know what was happening in NASCAR, you were on the outside. NASCAR is a big league sport, but it’s still also country and redneck.
Randy Moss
16
Toyota is doing a neat job coming in to the sport – no one ever thought that there would be a day when Toyota would participate in an American-made, American-born sport like Nascar but they’re doing a fantastic job.
Brian France
17
The feeling I got from rallycross was a little bit more of the NASCAR aspect of it; it’s a family of races where racing is a passion, and it’s not the politics that come with it.
Jacques Villeneuve
18
I have a lot to learn about NASCAR. But I’ve learned if you have the right people in the right places doing the right things, you can be successful at whatever you do.
Roger Staubach
19
I want to continue to be a part of the sport, and not just as an owner in the Nascar Xfinity Series. I want to be a valuable asset to the growth of the sport and continue to help raise the bar and raise the awareness of the sport and promote the sport as much as I can.
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
20
I’m different than the normal NASCAR driver, I listen to hip-hop music.
Denny Hamlin
21
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.
Kyle Larson
22
There’s been bumps in the road and serious challenges along the way, but my love for NASCAR and my zest for life is what’s most important to me.
Michael Waltrip
23
Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It’s built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it’s tremendously dangerous.
Gary Ross
24
I was about to walk on stage at the Kansas Speedway – I was playing a NASCAR race – and I said to Scooter Carusoe, who was standing side stage, ‘I want to write a song called ‘Wanna Be That Song.’ Then I put my earphones back in and walked right out on stage.
Brett Eldredge
25
Things are pretty good for NASCAR with our TV agreements behind us and so forth. For us it’s focusing on putting the best events and tightest racing that we can, making improvements on the track and investing in the amenities and fan experience.
Brian France
26
There have always been a lot of critics of competitive eating. You can be a critic of anything. It’s easy to be a critic. You can say negative things about golf, the amount of water wasted on golf courses. Or NASCAR. There are wastes in everything.
Joey Chestnut
27
Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.
Jesse Ventura
28
You know, I think in Europe NASCAR is not regarded as high as it should.
Juan Pablo Montoya
29
All those people who go to NASCAR and sing country & western songs and live in Tennessee, they totally ignore me, they don’t come to my shows, I just don’t exist for them and they don’t exist for me.
Al Stewart
30
Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it’s like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?
Chris Martin
31
The 600 is survival. It’s NASCAR’s longest race.
Robby Gordon
32
We don’t want to fight NASCAR.
Robby Gordon
33
We’re comic book fans; we’re huge NASCAR fans.
Janet Evanovich
34
I’m a fan of NASCAR, in a certain kind of way.
Jim Brown
35
I have taken restarts and have come to the conclusion myself that I can’t give NASCAR that opportunity to penalize me.
Kyle Busch
36
In every decision that we’ve ever made that’s important, the more input, the more people we’ve heard from, the better the result. And so that will never change in the business model of NASCAR, because the ideas come from all over the place, and that’s the strength that we have.
Brian France
37
I love social media. I think people in NASCAR don’t use it enough and there’s so much you can do with it.
Hailie Deegan
38
We’re trying to make sure it goes up. Expand NASCAR, expand our fan base.
Brian France
39
NASCAR and the Daytona 500 are about as American as you can get.
Rick Santorum
40
I think I’m drawn to people who dream big, and both films have that. In ‘Street Fight, Cory Booker wants to become Mayor of Newark, and in ‘Racing Dreams,’ three kids want to become NASCAR drivers.
Marshall Curry
41
I’d love to be a NASCAR driver because they’re, like, in their forties and fifties.
Valee
42
I wish Michael Schumacher would come try NASCAR. That’d be cool.
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
43
I’ve never seen a NASCAR race; I’ve seen an Indianapolis 500 race.
Cheech Marin
44
I’m working with a lot of entrepreneurs and people launching new businesses. It’s fun. It’s what I’ve always liked to do and loved doing it in my years at NASCAR when we were growing NASCAR, building different lines of business and intellectual properties.
Brian France
45
Americans are very patriotic and they want someone to support. In order to entice more fans, and to allow F1 to compete with Nascar and IndyCar, there needs to be an American driver.
Alexander Rossi
46
Whether it’s NASCAR or whether it’s football, or whether it’s the NBA, any time something spills over to the point where somebody makes a WWE reference, I always think it’s a good thing.
Shawn Michaels
47
I thought I’d go into law or something. I always loved NASCAR, but I didn’t view it as a business opportunity.
Brian France
48
If you try to describe NASCAR to anyone, you sound crazy.
Nahnatchka Khan
49
We have an online clothing boutique called Pink Candy Boutique that we manage in the midst of all of this, and trying to bring in different types of sponsors into NASCAR.
Amber Cope
50
The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
Adam McKay
51
I never thought about it, but as an atheist, maybe Nascar is my church?
S.E. Cupp
52
I’ve got my hands in every aspect of the NASCAR world, not only as the part time race car driver but as the full time TV guy and race team owner.
Michael Waltrip
53
From the Mississippi Mudflap to the Kentucky Waterfall, to the Tennessee Top Hat and the North Carolina Neckwarmer, nothing says freedom like a mullet blowing unfettered in the wind and I can’t wait to restore it to its rightful place in the NASCAR garage.
Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
54
My hope is, and I know there are a couple of big manufacturers, and there always are – this is not breaking news – there’s always somebody who has an interest in at least understanding the NASCAR opportunity, and so my sense of it is over time that we will have a fourth manufacturer.
Brian France
55
There are a lot of people making money in NASCAR, so let’s help it be SAFER barriers where they should be – especially at these very very fast racetracks.
Denny Hamlin
56
I think our sport is much better off with a successful female driver in NASCAR.
Denny Hamlin
57
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.
Bubba Wallace
58
If the award comes with a check, then I want that award. But if it doesn’t come with a check, then I’m not that interested. I’d much rather join NASCAR and get a trophy and a check.
Tiffany Haddish
59
NASCAR, there’s nothing wrong with it, it’s very competitive, but the specs are very tight on tolerances.
Robby Gordon
60
I think a lot of people think of NASCAR drivers as living the private life, the luxurious life. But I don’t.
Kyle Larson
61
The opportunity at NASCAR will continue to be such that the best talent wants to be here.
Brian France
62
NASCAR is not immune to the down economy.
Brian France
63
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.
Kyle Larson
64
Once you’re a NASCAR champion, you’re kind of in another elite division instead of just being a competitor or a race winner.
Kyle Busch
65
I don’t think that American drivers going to NASCAR are taking the easy way out because as I said, the racing is amazing; it’s just that it’s easier to adapt to what you grow up with. American drivers grow up with NASCAR, they know NASCAR, and that’s where they want to go.
Jacques Villeneuve
66
Bobsledding is like sprinting with NASCAR. You get to push these 400-pound sleds as fast as you can down a hill and hop in. How could you not enjoy that?
Elana Meyers
67
We see families making a vacation out of a NASCAR event. The average drive is 200 miles so they’re often going to spend a few days with us.
Brian France
68
We’re going to do whatever it takes to bring that NASCAR style of racing on the track to full fruition. That’s simply what we have to do.
Brian France
69
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.
Kyle Larson
70
That’s a hallmark of NASCAR… We have gotten to where we’ve gotten because we’re able to have the best drivers in the world, the best team owners and then giving them a package that creates the most exciting racing.
Brian France
71
Boy, do I dislike two things: One is having to deal with penalties or infractions even though we have to. We have to keep the playing field even, and we have to do what we have to do. The second part that I would prefer to not have to talk about is the business side of NASCAR. That’s important, too.
Brian France
72
Nascar will certainly not be one of my challenges in the future.
Michael Schumacher
73
NASCAR is Freaky Fast, just like Jimmy John’s.
Jimmy John Liautaud
74
My dad certainly has an eye for talent and he did something right getting his sons to the top of NASCAR.
Kyle Busch
75
I’m from Florida, and my family somehow is really into country music. We’re all southern in a way: My grandpa hunts, my uncle’s, like, a redneck, and we’re all NASCAR fans.
Cassadee Pope
76
As the only African American NASCAR driver in over 40 years, we have been honored to support Bubba Wallace.
David Steward
77
What I know is when the racing is tighter and there’s more passing, there’s just more excitement and more contact and more things that happen. That’s kind of what NASCAR is all about.
Brian France
78
I’ve done drag races. I’ve done Long Beach Grand Prix stuff. I’ve done NASCAR stuff. Just about anything carwise under the sun, I’ve done. Whether it be driving schools or racing schools, I’ve had a passion for it for a long time.
Bill Goldberg
79
Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day.
Alex Berenson
80
NASCAR racing is the highest form of American auto racing, and I’ve always wanted to be racing in the highest form. I want to accomplish good things in everything I get in every night, but NASCAR is the biggest, most-watched thing in American racing.
Kyle Larson
81
People recognize the size and scope of NASCAR but at the same time we are constantly underserved by the media coverage.
Brian France
82
Tattooed across NASCAR drivers’ jumpsuits and over every square inch of their cars are the logos of the companies sponsoring the teams, underwriting the costs, paying their salaries. Everyone can see who the drivers represent and who is footing the bill.
Steve Bullock
83
You don’t really get it from NASCAR that they want you to be the bad guy or the good guy. They’ll kind of joke around with you and be like, ‘Hey, that was really good this past weekend. You did a great job for us. Ratings were up.’
Kyle Busch
84
It’s too bad American electoral races aren’t as transparent as NASCAR races.
Steve Bullock
85
I play golf once in awhile. I certainly love to train. I’m also a big fan of NASCAR and Japanimation.
John Cena
86
Winning the Indy 500 in 1995 and the Formula 1 championship in 1997 are very special moments for me, and the people in NASCAR show me respect for what I’ve achieved so far in my career.
Jacques Villeneuve
87
I believe in the NASCAR medical staff.
Denny Hamlin
88
In Nascar, I was in a situation where I was out of my comfort zone.
Dario Franchitti
89
I feel like in NASCAR, there’s not many personalities that take up social media. Most of the time, it’s just the media person doing it for them, and you don’t get that connection with the fans when you do that.
Hailie Deegan
90
I try to help out everyone at NASCAR whenever I can. It will always be a special place for me and certainly my family, so I’ll do whatever I can to help the industry.
Brian France
91
People always talk about my heel/face turns. One of the jokes in America is I’ve had more turns than NASCAR.
Big Show
92
It’s not my future, but it’s NASCAR’s future, to make sure that we take events to the biggest metropolitan areas of the country, regions of the country.
Brian France
93
I’ve always felt strongly that the Confederate flag and other symbols like that are not representative of Nascar, even though I respect anyone’s right, because it does mean different things to different people.
Brian France
94
To be a part of NASCAR, to have the name behind me is such a big deal.
Hailie Deegan
95
There are days when I look at my news feed, and it seems like a social fabric of fun – a video of the first steps of my friends’ baby! My nephew’s prom date! On other days, it feels like a NASCAR vehicle, plastered with news stories, promoted posts, lame Live videos, and random content.
Om Malik
96
There’s no doubt, doing what we do, the schedule that we have and the danger that we incur every single week, NASCAR drivers should be making NBA, NFL money.
Denny Hamlin
97
I’m a huge NASCAR fan, but I’m not a gearhead. I’ve never been into fixing cars. It’s not because I don’t like it. I would love to know more. It’s just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn’t a mechanic.
Larry the Cable Guy
98
American politics are rich with characters and stereotypes – Joe the Plumber, Harry and Louise, Nascar dads and hockey moms, to name a few. But one persistent type hasn’t gotten much attention: the Republican football coach.
Steve Kornacki
99
I always felt my role was like the pit crew in a NASCAR race, and President Obama was Dale Jr.- he’s driving, and my job is to change the tires and get him back on the road.
Austan Goolsbee
100
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.
Bubba Wallace
101
We want everybody in this country to be a NASCAR fan, and you can’t do that by being insensitive in any one area.
Brian France
102
There are some people who watch NASCAR for the highly skilled driving – but most people watch it for the crashes.
John Oliver
103
You don’t win NASCAR races without ability.
Michael Waltrip
104
I think the people that were big Bill Elliott fans, they followed me for a long time, not just since I’ve been in the NASCAR world.
Chase Elliott
105
I’ve driven for A. J. Foyt, now the Andrettis, and my NASCAR team is Richard Childress Racing, which is one of the greats in that sport.
Robby Gordon