I was able to get through the field and get this Lowe's ProServices Chevy up front. Those last few restarts I was able to hang on and duke it out with those guys and get a nice, top-three finish.

How do you say no when a little kid is asking you for ice cream? I know I can't say no to it myself.

The thing I love about off-road racing is the pride in how abusive it is.

Driving will never be away from me - I can't just give it up. It's all I've ever done, and there's something about being in that car.

I grew up in a very simple home, a very simple background, and to be able to do what I'm able to do today, I'm very honored. I don't think I'll ever lose that perspective, and I don't want to.

I do find it amusing when somebody cuts me off, makes an aggressive move on me in a car. I'm like, 'Do you have any idea what I do for a living? Why?'

A losing football team looks at excuses. A championship football team looks at solutions.

I have a lot of confidence in myself, a lot of confidence in the race team, our equipment, and as my mind plays its games on me, I just fall back on the team.

I didn't get into racing to make friends.

There's just a pit that develops in your stomach and doesn't go away. It's the championship pit and it's there.

My fans are always extremely loyal.

Freedom and democracy are nothing but instruments, just like stability. The goal is called progress and growth. Anyone who puts freedom ahead of stability is hurting growth.

The only way forward in life is innovation.

We don't leave home without my daughter's doll La-La. She looks like a bit of a rag, but India is obsessed with her.

I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned.

You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.

Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering.

I've been saying for the last nine years, our power comes as much from - our respect in the world comes as much from the exercise of our power as it does from the power of our principles.

I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.

I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

Don't give up on your ideals. Don't compromise. Don't turn to expediency. And for heaven's sake . . . don't get cynical.