If my wheel comes off and I hit the fence real hard, I get to whack every damn one of you with a hammer.

That's life. You've got to deal with it, good and bad. We'll be all right. I mean, if we make the chase, we make it. If we don't, we don't.

Tried on daddy's 1979 rookie firesuit a while back. Smelled every bit of 36 years old.

Everything we do needs to be geared toward making the sport [auto racing] more accessible to the fans - the rules of the sport, how the race plays itself out, how people qualify into the races - everything needs to be as easy to understand as possible.

The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose.

My father could look straight ahead but concentrate on something on the very edge of his vision, almost nearly behind him.

I don't mind at all being approached when I'm 10 or more feet away from the car. If I'm anywhere away from the car, I'm fine. That's completely expected. But when I'm next to the car or within 10 feet of it, I'm thinking about that or working in that direction. And that's just something I'd rather be able to work on than be interrupted, really, by anybody.