I'm just trying not to get run over. That's number one. Number two is you gotta catch the guy in front of ya.

I've already done enough to have earned 'good driver,' so if I can be known as a great person and a good driver, that's better than only being a great driver.

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.

Getting up in front and talking to the people who build my cars is the worst. I get so damn nervous.

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.

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.