NASCAR Quotes

We haven’t made money in NASCAR in a long time.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.

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.

I think NASCAR racing comes down… to going for those last-lap passes, making those risky moves. That’s what makes drivers unique.

I am, after all, a NASCAR fan.

I think NASCAR’s coming to Canada now so it’ll take on a whole new relevance. Be afraid.

Unlike other sports, which are largely determined by individual athletic ability or team strength, NASCAR requires its competitors to cooperate in order to win.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I’m different than the normal NASCAR driver, I listen to hip-hop music.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.

You know, I think in Europe NASCAR is not regarded as high as it should.

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.

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?

The 600 is survival. It’s NASCAR’s longest race.

We don’t want to fight NASCAR.

We’re comic book fans; we’re huge NASCAR fans.

I’m a fan of NASCAR, in a certain kind of way.

I have taken restarts and have come to the conclusion myself that I can’t give NASCAR that opportunity to penalize me.

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.

I love social media. I think people in NASCAR don’t use it enough and there’s so much you can do with it.

We’re trying to make sure it goes up. Expand NASCAR, expand our fan base.

NASCAR and the Daytona 500 are about as American as you can get.

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.

I’d love to be a NASCAR driver because they’re, like, in their forties and fifties.

I wish Michael Schumacher would come try NASCAR. That’d be cool.

I’ve never seen a NASCAR race; I’ve seen an Indianapolis 500 race.

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.

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.

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.

I thought I’d go into law or something. I always loved NASCAR, but I didn’t view it as a business opportunity.

If you try to describe NASCAR to anyone, you sound crazy.

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.

The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.

I never thought about it, but as an atheist, maybe Nascar is my church?

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think our sport is much better off with a successful female driver in NASCAR.

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.

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.

NASCAR, there’s nothing wrong with it, it’s very competitive, but the specs are very tight on tolerances.

I think a lot of people think of NASCAR drivers as living the private life, the luxurious life. But I don’t.

The opportunity at NASCAR will continue to be such that the best talent wants to be here.

NASCAR is not immune to the down economy.

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.

Once you’re a NASCAR champion, you’re kind of in another elite division instead of just being a competitor or a race winner.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nascar will certainly not be one of my challenges in the future.

NASCAR is Freaky Fast, just like Jimmy John’s.

My dad certainly has an eye for talent and he did something right getting his sons to the top of NASCAR.

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.

As the only African American NASCAR driver in over 40 years, we have been honored to support Bubba Wallace.

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.

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.

Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day.

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.

People recognize the size and scope of NASCAR but at the same time we are constantly underserved by the media coverage.

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.

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.’

It’s too bad American electoral races aren’t as transparent as NASCAR races.

I play golf once in awhile. I certainly love to train. I’m also a big fan of NASCAR and Japanimation.

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.

I believe in the NASCAR medical staff.

In Nascar, I was in a situation where I was out of my comfort zone.

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.

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.

People always talk about my heel/face turns. One of the jokes in America is I’ve had more turns than NASCAR.

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.

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.

To be a part of NASCAR, to have the name behind me is such a big deal.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We want everybody in this country to be a NASCAR fan, and you can’t do that by being insensitive in any one area.

There are some people who watch NASCAR for the highly skilled driving – but most people watch it for the crashes.

You don’t win NASCAR races without ability.

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.

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.