I just always dreamed of racing cars, but I didn't think I could do it as a living.

There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch on it.

This 51 Phoenix Racing team, I love them to death. They've got my back, I've got theirs.

Over the Thanksgiving holiday I took time to reflect on what is most important to me and realized I need to find a way to put the fun back into racing.

I just always dreamed of racing cars, but I didn't think I could do it as a living.

It was such a dramatic escalator that I was on. It was at 90 degrees. I was going straight up like a rocket ship into space. And I was thrown in with the sharks. They said sink or swim in this Cup deal.

I wouldn't say it came easy, but I understood how to win and I determined how I could do it.