"He brings ethics, he brings intensity, he brings commitment that very few people can match."
-Jeff Burton, speaking of Mark Martin

"I’m shocked … overwhelmed. I thought I was going to cry, but I didn’t. My wife would have made fun of me."
-Boris Said on his first NNS Win

"I went down to the next corner and dumped him."
-Kyle Busch after winning the NNS race by wrecking Brad Keselowski

"I was put in conflict with the flight plan of another airplane close to the ground, and I was unable to address the conflict and keep the airplane flying."
-Jack Roush, on the cause of his crash

"I guess he was just doin' his deal and I was doin' my deal.
Our deals collided."
-Boris Said on his wreck with Tony Stewart

"That was probably one of the most violent crashes I've seen in over forty years of racing."
-Tim Brewer, on Elliott Sadler's Pocono crash

"I wake up every morning and I pray, and I pray for a lot of things, like health and my family and everything I have. And at the beginning of the year, I was like, 'Lord, I would like to win two races. If I could win two races this year, that would be unbelievable.' And to get it to be the Daytona 500 and the Brickyard 400, I feel like I've truly been blessed."
-Jamie McMurray

"I use the old Mark Martin rule. Had Mark Martin been running second going into turn one and he was Brad Keselowski, Mark might have ended up finishing second in that race, but nobody wrecks. If Mark Martin is Carl Edwards coming off of turn four, guess what happens - Brad Keselowski may win the race and Mark Martin might finish second, but there's not a bunch of cars piled up there at the start/finish line."
-Randy Pemberton, SPEED Analyst, on how it takes two.

"No rain tonight! We earned this one, and no one gave it to us!"
-David Reutimann in Chicagoland Victory Lane

"I feel lucky. I was so worried I wasn’t gonna win, because nothing but a win was good enough."
-Dale Earnhardt, Jr. on his Wrangler #3 win at Daytona

"You have kicked their butt in a one-legged butt-kickin’ competition!"
-Kyle Petty to Denny Hamlin

"I’m just gonna go home and see my wife and kids, and give ‘em a hug."
-Marcos Ambrose after his own mistake cost him a win.

"I knew that debris caution was comin', but y'know, we gotta do what is right for the fans, and they need to see a great race at the end."
-Denny Hamlin

"Y’know his wife wears the firesuit in the family and tells him what to do, so it’s probably not his fault."
-Joey Logano, directing his anger at Kevin Harvick's wife

"Somebody's gotta be the leader, and it ain't gonna be Kyle."
-Denny Hamlin on his position compared to JGR teammate Kyle Busch

"God, thank You for this day. Thank You for everything You give us. Thank You for dying on the cross. And please help everybody and their family to be good. And I pray for the racecar drivers, Kyle, Denny, and Joey, the most, to win the most and to win a lot. And I pray for the other drivers to win sometimes. And I pray for the people in the hospital; I don’t want them to get sick. And I pray for my Mom’s carnival. She still has to plan a little bittle. And I’m so glad for sunshine. Amen."
-Taylor Gibbs, 5 years old, giving the invocation for the All Star Race

"Have you heard a clank behind you lately?"
-Darrell Waltrip to Jimmie Johnson, wondering if JJ still had his golden horseshoe

"Nothin' like 33 midgets going green in eleven rows of three."
-Bob Varsha on SPEED Report talking about USAC, not a crowd of environmentally-aware little people.

"Surely, SURELY he can close the deal tonight."
-Darrell Waltrip, on Jeff Gordon (who ultimately finished second)

"I'm not gonna give The Stig a ticket.
I don't know what would happen to me if I did."
-The coolest cop in Omaha, after reading the shirt of the guy he pulled over.
Click to see who it was!

"I’m pretty disappointed in how he was racing me today, but we’ll get to the bottom of it and sort it out. There’s no need to play it out in the press. We’ll get it taken care of at the shop during the week and then come back to the next race and do it again."
-Jimmie Johnson in response to hearing Jeff Gordon was disappointed

"He told me he loved me; I told him I loved him back."
-Ryan Newman on his Victory Lane conversation with team owner Tony Stewart

"Surgery will have to wait."
--Mike Joy, on Denny Hamlin's delayed knee surgery, put off because of his win at Martinsville

"It's been nine years to finally figure this place out."
-Jimmie Johnson after his first Bristol win

"I still can't understand why that Sauber team doesn't have some sponsorship on the flanks of that car."
"Perhaps they haven't got a sponsor. Have you thought of that?"
-Bob Varsha and David Hobbs, F1 on SPEED

"My options: Considering that Brad wrecks me with no regard for anyone's safety or hard work, should I: A-Keep letting him wreck me? B-Confront him after the race? C-Wait til Bristol and collect other cars? or D-Take care of it now? I want to be clear that I was surprised at his flight and very relieved when he walked away. Every person has to decide what code they want to live by and hopefully this explains mine."
-Carl Edwards

"This is the only sport where, two minutes ago you were out there runnin' 190 miles an hour. Next thing you know, you've got a microphone jammed in front of your face and they're like, 'What the crap happened to YOU, dude?'"
-Kyle Petty on Juan Pablo's harsh words about teammate Jamie McMurray

"I'm sorry. I hope you can forgive me."
-Carol Einarsson to a cherished friend

"You look at him and you see 12 year old. You hear him talk, and you see Professor."
-Kyle Petty, on the maturity of Joey Logano

"Is this the ARCA 200 or the Danica 200? No offense, but geez. There are other drivers and sponsors that need coverage as well."
-Kyle Busch, exibiting first signs of jealousy

"Whether it's a nationwide program or community program, everybody's very depreciative of it and being a race car driver helps bring resemblance to that."
-Kurt Busch on his involvement with charities

"RIP Sugar.
God brought you to us and you lived His purpose with grace and loyalty.
We'll miss you always."
-Carol and Colby

"That's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown."
-Linus Van Pelt

"And there were in the same country shepherds, abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them! And they were sore afraid ... And the angel said unto them, "Fear not! For, behold, I bring you tidings o great joy, which shall be to all my people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ, the Lord.

And this shall be a sign unto you: Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger." And suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude of the Heavenly Host praising God, and saying, "Glory to God in the Highest, and on Earth peace, and good will toward men."

"That's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown."
-Linus Van Pelt

"My father, he gave me a hell of a gift in popularity, so my job has been to try to be an asset to the sport and to maintain that gift and it’s integrity; the name that my father has built, the Earnhardt name, and the respect that it has."
-Dale Earnhardt, Jr. on accepting the Most Popular Driver Award.

"A lot of people were kind enough to say thank you for the 25 years of racing my car in circles, and I appreciate that."
-Michael Waltrip, on finishing his last full-time season

"There's a lotta guys that have a lotta chips that they're gonna cash in. I'm just gonna be the first to the pay window."
-Denny Hamlin on his promise to pay back Brad Keselowski in the Nationwide race

"I've come to learn I'm no Dale Earnhardt. My record don't stand up against his. Just doesn't."
-Mark Martin, maybe feeling another championship slipping away

"I don't understand why the news channels don't talk about how good the racing was."
-Jimmy Spencer on the Talladega news coverage

"We're gonna go there and race like there ain't no WAY we can wreck!"
-Mark Martin, on his attitude going into Talladega

"From a PR standpoint, they don't want five people underground
- who they gonna interview?"
-Richard Petty,
on why more of NASCAR's foundational drivers weren't included in the inaugural HOF class

"Great news for Pres Obama. He watched football all weekend and tomorrow he will receive the Heisman trophy. Next week he's going to watch NASCAR. Move over, Jimmie Johnson!"
-Michael Waltrip via Twitter

"We lost one child and we gained ten thousand children."
-Kyle Petty, on Adam's legacy.

"I remember being stopped there and lookin' at that thing flippin', and flippin', and flippin', and flippin."
-Robby Gordon describing Joey Logano's violent wreck

"Pinch me!"
-Mark Martin, wondering if he's dreaming

"Yeah we can win the championship, that's why we're here!"
-Carl Edwards answering a ridiculous post-race question

"Never forget those who were lost; never forget those who still grieve."
-ce

"Those stories are true. It’s a dangerous, dangerous sport, I’m here to tell you."
-Carl Edwards, talking about his ugly Frisbee accident

"I just made one mistake and it cost me the race."
-Marcos Ambrose, after losing again in Canada

"Jimmie who?"
-Marcos Ambrose, after passing the 48 at Bristol

"Did you try to kill me?"
-Mark Martin, asking his crew chief about the loose car

"As long as the team will have me, I'll drive for 'em."
-Marcos Ambrose

"The 7 car is in the penalty box for attempting to be aggressive."
-Jerry Punch

"Thank you, NASCAR, for screwing my day."
-Juan Pablo Montoya

"Your butt never lies. I’ll second guess my crew chief. I’ll second guess the tire guy. I’ll second guess everybody, but I won’t second guess my butt."
-Wally Dallenbach, Jr.

"Whatever you do, don’t walk away from your race car!"
-David Reutimann to eventual race winner Joey Logano

"He was a granny shuffler."
-Marcos Ambrose on mentoring David Reutimann

"Evil loose on entry; evil, evil, evil loose."
-David Reutimann

"It’s like raising a child. You start out with nothing and you finish it and you hope people will take care of it. And it was stunning, absolutely stunning, to see that thing destroyed within seconds of him getting it. This is much more than just a guitar somebody plays at a concert and beats the hell out of when they’re done. It symbolizes something much bigger; much greater – and that’s the part I don’t think he thought all the way through."
-Sam Bass, on Kyle Busch's disrespect and destruction

"I understand the mentality behind smashing the guitar because rock stars do it. Sorry. He's not a rock star."
-Kyle Petty

"Two milestones today in NASCAR for Tony Stewart: For the first time you've led the points before race 21 and it's been 556 races since an owner/driver last led the championship standings."
-Matt Yocum

"I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did."
-Benjamin Harrison

"Things alter for the worse spontaneously,
if they be not altered for the better designedly."
-Francis Bacon

"She was just reminding me about potty training. We've come a long way and that's what we're talkin' about. 34 years old, Mothers Day, and it's my potty training deal. "
-Elliott Sadler explaining what he and Mom were discussing when approached for a SPEED interview

"Worst of all, you've got Ward Burton. He took off his booties and threw that at the race car. Not the man; the race car. And Ward, whatever you do, never throw your booties."
-Bootie Barker on some of the things thrown in the heat of a short-track-race moment

"We'll race this way till we kill somebody; then we'll change it. "
-Carl Edwards

"Carl is always sorry, so I'm sure I've got that going for me. "
-Michael Waltrip after being wrecked by Carl Edwards in the Nationwide Race

"Some people might say it's a pity it finished under the safety car, but I don't care. I won the race today! "
-Jenson Button, Australian Grand Prix Winner

"Shalom and Amen. "
-Rev. Hal Marchman, RIP

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

"You're lookin' down at the bacon; the pig's committed now. "
-Larry McReynolds

"Aside from wrecking Vickers and the field, I don't think I was that aggressive. "
-Dale Earnhardt, Jr. in an interview about his driving in the Daytona 500

"If you can't pass 'em before they get goin' fast, how you gonna pass 'em later? "
-Ken Schrader, on the merits of passing on a restart

"Some of the big events I've been to have been big! "
-Rusty Wallace at the Barrett-Jackson Auction

"Children come out of the womb faster than that. "
-Jeremy Clarkson commenting on James May's top speed in a 1972 Rolls Royce Corniche during a car test on Top Gear

"An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger. "
-Luke 2:9-12

"How old are you now, Kyle? 19? 20? 23? Twenty-Three. You just act 18 sometimes."
-Rick Hendrick to Kyle Busch at the 2008 Banquet

"Thanksgiving is a time of quiet reflection; an annual reminder that God has, again, been ever so faithful. The solid and simple things of life are brought into clear focus. "
-Charles R Swindoll

" My wife kept tellin' me, 'God's already got it planned; it's all set; it's gonna be what it's gonna be.' "
-Johnny Benson, 2008 Craftsman Truck Series Champion

"Jimmie Johnson is putting a whoopin' on everybody! "
-Kurt Busch

"It was a real frog-swallower when it happened. "
-David Hobbs, commenting on the unexpected cloudburst that happened just before the start of the F1 race in Brazil

"Racin' at Martinsville is kinda like being head of the daycare. "
-Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

"It's our job to put ourselves in position and go to Homestead with a chance. "
-Jeff Burton

"As you sit up there on that box with your Coca-Cola-drinkin' butt sittin' there, probably got a fan on you, and the driver's workin' his tail off... "
-Dale Jarrett's response to how he'd react if a crew chief told him to Shut up and drive.

"It's a bad deal for him, but those things happen. "
-Dale Earnhardt, Jr. commenting on Kyle Busch's spin

"It's a fast track; it's a fun track. It's not conducive to the best racing... But the event, the spectacle; all the stars that are there; the fan zone; everything at California Speedway is perfect for a great big race! And then they line up and take off and people are goin', æOkay, how come that one guy is leavin' everybody else behind?' "
-Michael Waltrip

"It's fixed! "
-a different Bill, with a hope and a prayer

"The 43 of Bob Blaney involved! "
-Dr. Jerry Punch keeping fans informed as the big wreck unfolded

"You gotta blow on his toes! "
-Steve Byrnes to Larry Mac after the on-air toenail-painting of Jeff Hammond on Trackside

"How 'bout tryin' a different girlfriend? "
-Kevin Harvick in the Tylenol call-in show commercial

"I can't actually see Benson anywhere; he usually tries to hide, and right now he's probably doing that in the loo. "
-Peter Windsor looking for pre-race interviews

" Everybody in this sport should walk up to the King at least once and say 'Thank you', because if it wasn't for Richard Petty, we wouldn't be racing today. "
-Bill Weber quoting the late Benny Parsons

"When you get a guy down, you just wanna stand on his neck and not let 'im back up. They know if they let Tony Stewart breathe again, he's gonna be a factor in the race. "
-Kyle Petty

"It was so loud I couldn't even hear my own voice as I cried out to God to save me. "
-Rebecca, describing surviving the June 27th Omaha storm

"I was just gonna say I hope somebody sent an ambulance down to Marty. "
-Wally Dallenbach commenting on Marty Snider's rough post-race interview with Tony Stewart

"I have to be grateful to Lewis as he chose Kimi and not myself. "
-Robert Kubica, F1 Winner, on sitting next to Kimi at a red light and hearing Hamilton's collision

"May the green flag wave softly on you today, and until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand. "
-Humpy Wheeler

"You always hear about people loving to get up every day because they love to go do their job, and that's the way I was. "
-Dale Jarrett, reflecting on his racing career

"They don't give a trophy for best-lookin' mom, but I think I got that one this weekend. "
-Carl Edwards

"I was furious with the Shrub.And that is way too nice of a word for him.He has now become a weed. "
-Bonny, an angered race fan

"I'm gonna drive until my buddies can't lift me in the car, and I'll get some younger buddies if I need to. "
-Ken Schrader

"NASCAR doesn't like having to fix something that they were in charge of changing in the first place. "
-Darrell Waltrip about the COT

"No lie can live forever. "
-Ben Stein in Expelled

"Oh, it'll stop smoking eventually. "
-Mike Joy assessing Martin Truex's engine issues

"Y'know, doves mate for life. "
-Darrell Waltrip

"Thank goodness we've got cold weather to cover up for Goodyear's incompetence. "
-Tony Stewart

"Bruton, you need soft wall and to change the wall back there on the back straightaway. "
-Jeff Gordon

"I'm bloody freezin'! "
-Dario Franchitti in the Fontana rain

"It's like a big ol' accordion - It stretches out, and it sucks back in, and it's whistlin' all the time! "
-Darrell Waltrip, speaking of the racing pack at Daytona

"Declining TV ratings in any sport is not a good sign. "
-Darrell Waltrip

"Man gets heater for pig -- pig starts fire "
-CNN.com Headline

"And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ[a] the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger. "
-Luke 2:8-12

"I guess it's my turn. No one's left. "
-Jimmie Johnson looking around the stage after Brian France's strange departure

"Are you paying attention? "
-Kenny Wallace to Brian France

"I finally crashed. I drove like an idiot all day. "
-Kasey Kahne

"Sit back and enjoy as The Chase gets underway. "
-Jerry Punch introducing not the first, but the eighth race in The Chase

"I hope Dale's all right. "
-Carl Edwards after Dale Earnhardt, Jr's nasty wreck

"It was an awkward situation. "
-Bob Dilner describing Carl Edwards' hi-jacking of his interview with Matt Kenseth that included captured video footage of Edwards' harrassment and battery of Kenseth.

"All it means is every time Lewis is quicker than Fernando, Fernando just puts up his hands and says, Agh! They must be favoring Lewis! It's impossible that the great Fernando Alonso can be slower than Lewis Hamilton!' And of course, the reality is that Lewis has done a better job this year. He's better organized and he's a faster driver. "
-Peter Windsor, SPEED F1 Reporter on the constant complaining by Fernando Alonso that has led to the Spanish Motorsport Federation's request that the FIA send a special scrutineer to the final race just to make sure that poor Fernando isn't slighted by his team in order to ensure rookie Lewis Hamilton wins the Championship.

"Naw, just needs a little paint. "
-Dale Earnhardt responding to Dan Hughes' suggestion that we shave a #3 in the side of Earnhardt the cat, after holding up her picture for all to see on QVC's For Race Fans Only.

"That's your winner right there. "
-Jimmie Johnson pointing to Clint Bowyer, after NASCAR's call to give the win to Greg Biffle

"I guess it's my fault because I watched the Busch race and they said he was sick so I guess whatever medicine he's taking makes him hallucinate because he needs three lanes to get around somebody on the race track. "
-Kyle Petty, regarding the run-in with Denny Hamlin

"Experience is low; confidence is high. "
-Bob Varsha describing GP2 racing

"I tell ya, this is the time of the race where it just makes me wanna tear my fingernails out. "
-Rusty Wallace, at the restart of the Busch race at Richmond, 12 laps to go. We're excited, but next week is the start of ten weeks of hell, and we're gonna have to put in ten good ones and hopefully be a champion.

"If we're gonna bill ourselves as the most exciting, fastest growing sport in America, by God, we oughtta sell out everywhere we go. And if we don't sell out places like this, then we should go somewhere where we do sell out places."
-

"Your brain is smashed up against your skull "
-Jeff Burton, driver of the AT&T Chevrolet, describing Bristol

"It's Tuesday, let's go home! "
->Rusty Wallace, at the conclusion of Michigan's Race

"Let's see if they're gonna fight! I wanna see this! "
-Rusty Wallace

"What I have to do from here is I have to do the best I can to carry on. "
-Bobby Allison

"I don't think you let anything on the track affect your relationship off the race track. "
-Kevin Harvick, speaking about his friend Tony Stewart

"Fire up a colortini, sit back, relax, and watch the pictures, now, as they fly through the air. "
-Tom Snyder May 12, 1936 - July 29, 2007

"I'll bean Hammond in a heartbeat. "
-Elliott Sadler, jokingly, just a moment before he actually (and accidentally) nailed Jeff Hammond in the head with a baseball.

"If the pole sitter doesn't get to race because they start by points, that's just bad luck. "
-Boris Said

"It's not a curse; we still finished 13th. "
-Carl Edwards

"I did it my way, and I think I did good at it. "
-Junior Johnson

"Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage which we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose-garden."
-T. S. Eliot

"I think a lot of people in the grandstands might have wanted the top two cars to run out of fuel... "
-Bob Dillner to Kyle Petty after his 3rd place finish

"I'm not eating any Kellogg's any time soon. "
-Kurt Busch

"My mom, the first thing she would tell me is that you gotta look at God first before you start worrying about racing. "
-Scott Riggs

"Like myself, he might be better if he stepped on a rusty nail and had lockjaw for about a week. "
-Barney Hall, speaking of Tony Stewart

"It's a little tender for me to sit down right now. "
-Tony Stewart after his 6AM meeting with NASCAR

"Let not your heart be troubled, Believe in God and also in Me. I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, Said the Man from Galilee. I go to prepare a place for you. Believe and you will see That when I am through, I'll come back for you. So that you may be where I am, too. Forever, you and me. "
-B.C. by Johnny Hart Feb 18, 1931 -- Apr 7, 2007

"The angel said to the women, Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples: 'He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.' Now I have told you. "
-Matthew 28:5-7

"I think there's an issue there that nobody wanted to live up to, but it sounds like they'll have to after today. "
-Darrell Waltrip on the burning foam that NASCAR denied was possible

"This is something NASCAR has given us back because there was no other way they could stop us. "
-Bootie Barker on the return of bump stops

"Snowboarding is like driving a car. When things are all right, you're on it. But when things go wrong, it goes really, really bad really fast. "
-Juan Pablo Montoya

"You can't go in there and bonsai a damn race car when you got eight others all bunched up like that. Y'know, Robby's a good, talented race car driver -- just when you put that box over your head, you can't suffocate yourself. "
-Ward Burton

"We crashed because Robby Gordon put us three wide on a track that only has two grooves. "
-Casey Mears

"Of all the people to take you out, your teammate. That was just no-good, low, nasty, dirty drivin'. "
-Scott Pruett, on Juan Pablo Montoya's winning tactics in Mexico

"I wanna thank all the fans out there for all the encouragement this week. It means more to me than any hardware. "
-Mark Martin

"We were ahead, man, I was waitin' for 'em to throw the yellow. "
-Mark Martin

"Fair is fair; all love is war. "
-Kyle Busch, Bud Shootout post race interview

"I'm starting near the back, but it looks GOOD if you start in the back and come to the front. "
-Elliott Sadler, on his starting position in the Bud Shootout

"Oh, what a basket of junk. It drives like a station wagon, an old station wagon, like an old Oldsmobile station wagon, green with wood panel trim on the sides. "
-Tony Stewart on his radio show, speaking of the COT

"Channeling the Queen? "
-Bob Varsha to David Hobbs, Rolex 24-Hours at Daytona

"Everybody talked about what a great race car driver he was, but I wanted to tell them he was a great grandpa, too. "
-Emily Parsons, 6 years old

"He was part Elvis, part Santa Claus and part comedian. "
-Matt Yocum describing his friend Benny Parsons

"Benny was the kind of guy you just wanted to walk up to and give a hug. You wanted to hug him because he was just that way - a humble man who had a gentle spirit. "
-Darrell Waltrip

"It seems the reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. "
-Bill Graham

"We don't know yet when he'll be discharged, but the worst of everything is over. "
-Mrs a different Bill

"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. "
-Benjamin Franklin

"God Bless Us, Everyone. "
-Tiny Tim

"Some people's minds are so dirty that they ought to plant potatoes and get some use out of them. "
-Mary Beth Voelker

"After 22 years, you're still the hottest thing in the garage to me. "
-Mark Martin to his wife showing one of the many reasons why the above quote is so true.

"You may not have that trophy, buddy, but you are such a champion, and everybody in this room and everybody in this sport knows it. -- "
-Jimmie Johnson, to Mark Martin

"The thing you want to be able to do is to be well-liked when you retire. I know right now I'm not close to retiring, and I'm not close to being liked. "
-Kyle Busch, as quoted in the Las Vegas Sun

"..'89, brother, '89! 'No you're not!' 'No you're not!!' When it was all said and done, who was sittin' in Victory Lane? WE were! "
-Jeff Hammond to Darrell Waltrip on NASCAR Live Sunday morning, recounting their radio conversation

"Needless to say, I'll be buying my Irwin Tools at Lowe's. "
-Jamie McMurray, after being wrecked by Tony Stewart

"He is what a race car driver should be. He is everything that -- If you could have a son and say, 'This is who I want you to emulate,' Terry Labonte is the guy you would want. Quiet, focused, great family guy, but loves the sport more than anything else. I think his legacy will be here for a long, long time. He was a true Champion. "
-Kyle Petty, when asked what Terry Labonte has meant to him.

"I just told you! I ran over you! Now get outta here! "
-Kasey Kahne answering David Stremme's question about why Kasey wrecked him

"You'd think David Ragan would be dizzy by now. -"
-Wally Dallenbach during The Subway 500 at Martinsville, after David Ragan had contributed to eight different cautions between the Truck race on Saturday and the Cup race on Sunday.

"The bad thing about pickin' on a guy in a wheelchair is, if I whip you, you got beat by a guy in a wheelchair. If you beat ME, you STILL only beat a guy in a wheelchair! - "
-Bootie Barker to Jimmy Spencer on SPEED's Victory Lane

"I'm all for the fact that diversity is happening in our sport. I think it's fantastic, but there's NO WAY there's 10% of the fans are Hispanic, Michael! C'mon! Look at this audience! At Homestead Miami there might be 10% of the people on the grounds that are Hispanic, and most of 'em are workin' at the race track. They're not sitting in the grandstand! -"
-Ray Dunlap on Tradin' Paint