Jeff [Gordon] doesn't sit down and explain things. We don't sit and have meetings where I'm the student. He really teaches by example. I've learned a lot on and off the racetrack.

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.

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.

There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.

Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.

I'm a miracle man, things happen which I don't plan, I've never planned anything. Whatsoever I do, I want it to be an instant action object, instant reaction subject. Instant input, instant output.

My culinary wardrobe is the same as my biking wardrobe, just no shoes.

I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.

Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.

I'm a guy, but I'm not afraid to cry. Not all of the time. But when I'm watching a movie, I'll sometimes shed a tear, especially 'Moulin Rouge'.